AI – Propastop

13. Aug 2026

Disinformation Attack Targeting Portuguese Air Force Personnel at Ämari

On 6 August, a false story about Estonia began circulating on X, claiming that a Ukrainian drone shot down over Ämari had crashed into and destroyed two Portuguese fighter jets. To spread the fabricated story, its creators set up a clone of a popular defence news website and produced an AI-generated video.

Propaganda incident

24. Jun 2026

How China built a hidden news network in Europe

French investigators exposed 13 fake news sites posing as independent media but spreading CGTN narratives. The case shows how modern influence operations now use AI, automation and the look of real journalism.

Raamatukogu

15. May 2026

Why Do Intelligent People Hold On to False Beliefs?

Anna-Maria Vaskovskaja, National Library of Estonia The edited volume The Psychology of False Beliefs: Collective Delusions and Conspiracy Theories by Joseph P. Forgas begins with an uncomfortable but necessary assumption: human beings are not naturally truth-seeking machines. We like to think of ourselves as rational decision-makers who revise our views when better evidence appears. Public

Analysis

3. Apr 2026

AI in warfare: what is actually being described and how it changes in the information environment

The role of AI in warfare lies not in making decisions, but in preparing them. The question, however, is on the basis of what information those decisions are formed — and how that information is interpreted in the information environment.

Meedia propagandast

19. Mar 2026

February in the media: intelligence report, nuclear rhetoric and a record month for disinfo

February brought Estonia’s information space under rare international spotlight, as intelligence reports, NATO activity, and political tensions coincided with a surge in pro-Kremlin and AI-driven disinformation.

Analysis

3. Feb 2026

Study: In Russian, AI repeats propaganda in up to 86% of cases

A new European Union-funded study mapped how six major language models respond to questions about the war in Ukraine in three languages. The results reveal a clear language-based bias: in Russian, propaganda and misinformation are significantly more frequent.

Uncategorized

14. Jul 2025

One Line to Break the Internet: How a Rogue AI Prompt Sparked Memes, Bans, and a Digital War

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI), Grok, made headlines this week. One line in Grok's system prompt, which encouraged the AI to make "politically incorrect" claims if they were well-substantiated, started a chain reaction both online and offline.

Analysis

25. Mar 2025

The Silent Infiltrators: Spot the Bot and See How They Shape Social Media

Scroll through your social media feed, and you might not even notice them at first—profiles with forgettable names, blurry photos, and eerily consistent opinions. But look closer, and you’ll see the pattern: these are bots, not people, quietly shaping conversations, spreading disinformation, and nudging public opinion one comment at a time.

Analysis·Media literacy

18. Feb 2025

The Art of Dehumanization: Russia’s Use of AI to Attack Ukrainians

Russia’s state media leverages AI-generated images to spread propaganda, dehumanize Ukrainians, and portray the West in chaos. EUvsDisinfo highlights this as a modern twist on old disinformation tactics, designed to fuel hatred and manipulate public perception.

AI

Disinformation Attack Targeting Portuguese Air Force Personnel at Ämari

How China built a hidden news network in Europe

Why Do Intelligent People Hold On to False Beliefs?

AI in warfare: what is actually being described and how it changes in the information environment

February in the media: intelligence report, nuclear rhetoric and a record month for disinfo

Study: In Russian, AI repeats propaganda in up to 86% of cases

One Line to Break the Internet: How a Rogue AI Prompt Sparked Memes, Bans, and a Digital War

The Silent Infiltrators: Spot the Bot and See How They Shape Social Media

The Art of Dehumanization: Russia’s Use of AI to Attack Ukrainians

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