The Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital Media (BROD 2.0) is a continuation of BROD and aims at expanding the multinational, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary regional hub for detection, analysis and combating disinformation circulating in Bulgaria and Romania, adding now Moldova to its field of activities. The BROD observatory is important for the region. Due to the poor media freedom and low citizen media and information literacy is highly prone to coordinated internal and external disinformation campaigns aiming at the EU.
Consortium members:
- Big Data for Smart Society Institute (GATE)
- Center for Independent Journalism (CJI)
- Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD)
- Commetric)
- AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE (AFP)
- FUNKY CITIZENS
- BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION (BNT)
- GLOBSEC
- NTCenter
- ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER (ATC)
- National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA )
- XWiki SAS
ATC has set up -and is still maintaining- Truly Media, as the hub’s fact-checking platform, and is also responsible for the creation of applications that would help combat mis-disinformation in the region.
The project started in June 2025 and will last for 30 months.
