Donor: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Moldova Purpose: Supporting independent media institutions in producing professional content and strengthening citizens’ critical thinking and resilience against propaganda and disinformation. Activities: Providing grants for media institutions, monitoring media content and social networks during the pre-electoral and electoral period of the parliamentary elections and updating the Mediacritica and Media Azi platforms....

Purpose: Promoting inclusion and social cohesion by supporting media institutions in producing quality media and diverse media content, and strengthening media literacy among community leaders of civil society. Activities: Providing grants for media outlets, organizing media literacy trainings, and producing video content and the cuMINTE podcast....

TikTok has shown in the last days of campaigning and on voting day that social media cannot be silenced: despite several accounts that disseminated misinformation being blocked, messages continued to circulate through clone accounts and content migration. AT the same time, popular influencers have quickly reappeared, while the narratives remained the same, only repackaged: loss of sovereignty, limited vote, dependence on EU, anti-PAS mobilization and, ex-post, the thesis that the elections were...

In contrast to traditional media, which preserved a balanced and professional tone in their reporting on politics and the elections during the last two weeks of the campaign, the election silence, and election day itself, disinformation-prone Telegram channels were actively promoting a parallel reality. Between September 13 and 28, followers of these channels “learned the truth”, which was often contradictory, about the elections, in particular: Moldovan citizens have begun receiving mobilizatio...

The Independent Journalism Center (IJC) released on Tuesday, September 30, its fourth monitoring report on the election campaign for the September 28, 2025 parliamentary elections. The report, the last in this series, reflects the results of monitoring ten television stations — Moldova 1, TVR Moldova, GRT, Jurnal TV, Pro TV Chișinău, TV8, Exclusiv TV, Cinema 1, One TV, and N4 — selected based on criteria such as audience, form of ownership, and language of broadcast. The report covered the last...

Analysis of the most prominent narratives disseminated through the monitored channels: In September, the narrative portraying Moldova as involved in the war was heavily promoted on TikTok, peaking with the publication of a fake story originating directly from the Kremlin. Over time, this topic has been exploited by various fake news sites and bloggers, many of whom are linked to Ilan Shor. Certain politicians have also indirectly reinforced these narratives through statements emphasizing the “ne...

The Independent Journalism Center (IJC) released on Tuesday, September 23, its third monitoring report on the election campaign for the September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections. The report reflects the results of monitoring ten television stations—Moldova 1, TVR Moldova, GRT, Jurnal TV, Pro TV Chișinău, TV8, Exclusiv TV, Cinema 1, One TV, and N4—selected based on criteria such as audience, form of ownership, and language of broadcast. The third monitoring report covered the period from Septem...

During the first two weeks of the parliamentary election campaign in the Republic of Moldova, we identified both identity and conspiracy narratives, as well as using particular episodes for creating an image of arrogant and abusive governance in the information space on Facebook. At the same time, such foreign figures as George Soros were used in the political and media discourse, consolidating previously known messages based on fear and polarization. The narratives identified on 117 Facebook pa...