Disinformation

Fear still sells. What marked the election campaign in Latvia

Security, immigration, and the Istanbul Convention were the main topics of Latvia’s parliamentary election this year. While the first concerns almost everyone amid an increasingly fragile geopolitical situation, the other two were largely pushed to the forefront by politicians, including through unfounded fearmongering and outright disinformation. Re:Baltica analyses the main narratives and methods political parties used in the battle for voters before the October 3rd elections.

“NATO Membership Will Not Protect You”: How Kremlin Propaganda Escalated Its Campaign Against the Baltics

In May, the Baltics experienced a perfect storm of events capable of fuelling public anxiety. There were repeated emergency alerts about Ukrainian drones entering airspace, some of them hitting an empty oil depot in Latvian town close to the Russian border and one being shot down by NATO air force in Estonia. Vilnius, including the government, was ordered to go to shelters. Latvia experienced power outages.

Why Green Deal Opponents Spread Fear of Food Shortages?

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?

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