The fight against wind turbines and imaginary mosques, stories of stolen elections – in the local elections, Estonian populists used the same themes as their Latvian counterparts.
Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) was expected to become a tool that would force social media giants like Facebook and TikTok to follow their own rules and make the online space safer. However, an experiment reveals that, in practice, platforms often treat user complaints about illegal content as a formality. In the Baltics, they respond almost exclusively to regulators’ requests, if at all.
Re:Baltica uncovers the path of the sabotage packages masterminded by Russian special services through Latvian capital Riga and their coordinator with at least two forged passports. The Latvian non-citizen, who was arrested for delivering the packages to Vilnius, could face a life sentence.
With growing efforts to curb climate change and the introduction of new environmental requirements for agriculture, misinformation about these issues is also on the rise. Both social media disinformers and populist politicians are exploiting the topic, mainly by spreading fear that farmers will be unable to meet these requirements, supposedly leading to food shortages. Why are such messages becoming increasingly widespread?
“Let’s hit Rzeszów just like Israel hits Doha!” wrote Kotsnews (@sashakots) Telegram channel owner, Komsomolskaya Pravda military correspondent Alexander Kots, on September 10. At least five other Russian military bloggers — the so-called “Z” channels — reshared it.
For the Belarusian regime, the “Zapad‑2025” exercises required a triple balancing act — to demonstrate loyalty to Moscow, to avoid frightening Belarusians with the specter of war, and to prevent escalation with neighboring NATO states Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.
Several anonymous social media profiles are spreading a video claiming that the drones that entered Poland in September were in fact launched by Ukraine, not Russia. Allegedly, this was part of a larger plan to divide Ukraine. There is no basis for such claims. The drones that entered Poland were Russian.