Tommaso Canetta
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social
Deputy director of Pagella Politica and Facta news, EDMO fact-checking coordinator, board member of EFCSN, professional journalist, master degree in Law
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💬 @tommasocanetta.bsky.social notes that the #Palestinian side is also actively spreading #disinformation; however, "it's clear that right now we are seeing more disinformation coming from the pro #Israel side of things."
🗞️ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...
🗞️ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...
Fact check: Israel spends vast sums on propaganda ads – DW – 09/08/2025
Israel spends millions of euros on propaganda, much of it targeted at European audiences. A series of videos seek to downplay Gaza food scarcity.
www.dw.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
💬 @tommasocanetta.bsky.social notes that the #Palestinian side is also actively spreading #disinformation; however, "it's clear that right now we are seeing more disinformation coming from the pro #Israel side of things."
🗞️ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...
🗞️ Read the full DW report: www.dw.com/en/israel-pr...
This photo of "humiliated" EU leaders is everywhere online.
This photo is false, it's AI-generated:
www.facta.news/antibufale/m...
This photo is false, it's AI-generated:
www.facta.news/antibufale/m...
Questa foto dei leader europei a capo chino in attesa alla Casa Bianca è falsa | Facta
È stata creata con l’intelligenza artificiale
www.facta.news
August 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This photo of "humiliated" EU leaders is everywhere online.
This photo is false, it's AI-generated:
www.facta.news/antibufale/m...
This photo is false, it's AI-generated:
www.facta.news/antibufale/m...
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💵 Despite #Facebook's policies against #hatespeech and #Holocaust denial, the platfoms’ #monetization #algorithms promote deceptive #AI #Holocaust content by recommending it to users interested in historical topics: read the new investigation by @provereno.bsky.social at loom.ly/uJXLvN4.
June 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
💵 Despite #Facebook's policies against #hatespeech and #Holocaust denial, the platfoms’ #monetization #algorithms promote deceptive #AI #Holocaust content by recommending it to users interested in historical topics: read the new investigation by @provereno.bsky.social at loom.ly/uJXLvN4.
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"Don't believe everything you see online": a message you'd expect to hear from the community working to counter #disinformation – but also from those 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 it? 1/6
🧵 Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c
🧵 Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Don't believe everything you see online": a message you'd expect to hear from the community working to counter #disinformation – but also from those 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 it? 1/6
🧵 Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c
🧵 Read the thread below or head straight to our latest #factchecking brief: loom.ly/J1RMb_c
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The widespread circulation of #scams on #Facebook and #Instagram highlights the limitations of #Meta's current #contentmoderation and #advertising review systems, write @thanossitistas.bsky.social & @cianellaaa.bsky.social in the latest EDMO investigation: loom.ly/nxDJeqs
June 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The widespread circulation of #scams on #Facebook and #Instagram highlights the limitations of #Meta's current #contentmoderation and #advertising review systems, write @thanossitistas.bsky.social & @cianellaaa.bsky.social in the latest EDMO investigation: loom.ly/nxDJeqs
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🇭🇺 A proposed bill in Hungary could allow the government to label “foreign-funded” orgs as threats to sovereignty, harming independent journalism & civil society. Fact-checker Lakmusz is at risk of losing 100% of funding.
Full statement by Lakmusz (EN/HU) 👉 shorturl.at/I47ZM
Full statement by Lakmusz (EN/HU) 👉 shorturl.at/I47ZM
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🇭🇺 A proposed bill in Hungary could allow the government to label “foreign-funded” orgs as threats to sovereignty, harming independent journalism & civil society. Fact-checker Lakmusz is at risk of losing 100% of funding.
Full statement by Lakmusz (EN/HU) 👉 shorturl.at/I47ZM
Full statement by Lakmusz (EN/HU) 👉 shorturl.at/I47ZM
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1/6 US president Donald Trump turned a diplomatic meeting into a theatre of #misinformation – making false claims about the victims and perpetrators of farm attacks in #SouthAfrica.
We fact-checked the claims behind THAT meeting in the Oval Office. 🧵 africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...
We fact-checked the claims behind THAT meeting in the Oval Office. 🧵 africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...
‘Death, death, death’: setting the record straight on Trump’s South Africa farm murder spectacle
As the country debates THAT White House meeting, we took a closer look at some of the claims traded in the Oval Office.
africacheck.info
May 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
1/6 US president Donald Trump turned a diplomatic meeting into a theatre of #misinformation – making false claims about the victims and perpetrators of farm attacks in #SouthAfrica.
We fact-checked the claims behind THAT meeting in the Oval Office. 🧵 africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...
We fact-checked the claims behind THAT meeting in the Oval Office. 🧵 africacheck.info/trump_farm_m...
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Dentro il Remigration summit di Gallarate, tra teorie del complotto ed estremisti in giacca e cravatta | @sulcomplottismo.bsky.social
Dentro il Remigration summit di Gallarate, tra teorie del complotto ed estremisti in giacca e cravatta | Facta
Chi c’era e cosa è stato detto durante il raduno dell’estrema destra che sogna di deportare richiedenti asilo e immigrati regolari
www.facta.news
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dentro il Remigration summit di Gallarate, tra teorie del complotto ed estremisti in giacca e cravatta | @sulcomplottismo.bsky.social
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Zelensky che compra cose, il filone disinformativo preferito dalla propaganda russa | @tommasocanetta.bsky.social
Zelensky che compra cose, il filone disinformativo preferito dalla propaganda russa | Facta
Una sotto-narrazione che il Cremlino martella con impressionante accanimento nelle opinioni pubbliche occidentali
www.facta.news
May 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Zelensky che compra cose, il filone disinformativo preferito dalla propaganda russa | @tommasocanetta.bsky.social
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Marking the "culmination of months of political uncertainty", yesterday's first round of the #Romanian presidential #election saw several notable incidents, as @brodhub.bsky.social partner Funky Citizens shows in their latest analysis: edmo.eu/edmo-news/ro...
May 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Marking the "culmination of months of political uncertainty", yesterday's first round of the #Romanian presidential #election saw several notable incidents, as @brodhub.bsky.social partner Funky Citizens shows in their latest analysis: edmo.eu/edmo-news/ro...
Today is a good day to remember Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, in particular the 3rd and the 4th:
3 - A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses (see graph)
(...)
3 - A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses (see graph)
(...)
April 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Today is a good day to remember Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, in particular the 3rd and the 4th:
3 - A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses (see graph)
(...)
3 - A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses (see graph)
(...)
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“Facts Matter,” says Stephen Fry. “Verifiable, testable, provable facts.”
Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.
Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.
April 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Facts Matter,” says Stephen Fry. “Verifiable, testable, provable facts.”
Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.
Fact checking is vital in the fight against global misinformation. This #FactCheckingDay, show your support for accurate information. Tell the world why #FactsMatter.
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Today EDMO Fact-Checking coordinator
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social and Executive Board Chair Paolo Cesarini are at the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Meeting discussing the role of fact-checking, research and media literacy on defending democracy
Watch the live: loom.ly/rMrGTck
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social and Executive Board Chair Paolo Cesarini are at the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Meeting discussing the role of fact-checking, research and media literacy on defending democracy
Watch the live: loom.ly/rMrGTck
Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
loom.ly
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Today EDMO Fact-Checking coordinator
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social and Executive Board Chair Paolo Cesarini are at the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Meeting discussing the role of fact-checking, research and media literacy on defending democracy
Watch the live: loom.ly/rMrGTck
@tommasocanetta.bsky.social and Executive Board Chair Paolo Cesarini are at the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield Meeting discussing the role of fact-checking, research and media literacy on defending democracy
Watch the live: loom.ly/rMrGTck
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📣 Join EFCSN.com, @europarl.europa.eu & the EDMO #FactChecking Network in Brussels next week!
👉 Request your seat & see what highlights to expect, including a conversation w/ @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social on the role of #factcheckers in the protection of European #democracy: loom.ly/yQUFAD0
👉 Request your seat & see what highlights to expect, including a conversation w/ @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social on the role of #factcheckers in the protection of European #democracy: loom.ly/yQUFAD0
March 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📣 Join EFCSN.com, @europarl.europa.eu & the EDMO #FactChecking Network in Brussels next week!
👉 Request your seat & see what highlights to expect, including a conversation w/ @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social on the role of #factcheckers in the protection of European #democracy: loom.ly/yQUFAD0
👉 Request your seat & see what highlights to expect, including a conversation w/ @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social on the role of #factcheckers in the protection of European #democracy: loom.ly/yQUFAD0
In February Trump's and other US officials' statements gave new strength and circulation in the EU to different disinformation narratives about Ukraine + the ideology of the new US administration is also fueling disinformation narratives about the undemocratic-censor nature of the EU/Member States
#Disinformation about the war in #Ukraine nearly doubled in February, jumping from 6% the previous month to 11%, the highest percentage since March 2024.
👉 Take a look at our latest fact-checking brief with new insights based on 1.376 #factchecking articles in February: edmo.eu/publications...
👉 Take a look at our latest fact-checking brief with new insights based on 1.376 #factchecking articles in February: edmo.eu/publications...
March 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In February Trump's and other US officials' statements gave new strength and circulation in the EU to different disinformation narratives about Ukraine + the ideology of the new US administration is also fueling disinformation narratives about the undemocratic-censor nature of the EU/Member States
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Il proprietario di X usa notizie false e teorie cospirative di estrema destra per screditare gli avversari politici e veicolare le proprie battaglie ideologiche | @azitelli.bsky.social
Come funziona la potente macchina disinformativa di Elon Musk | Facta
Il proprietario di X usa notizie false e teorie cospirative di estrema destra per screditare gli avversari politici e veicolare le proprie...
www.facta.news
March 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Il proprietario di X usa notizie false e teorie cospirative di estrema destra per screditare gli avversari politici e veicolare le proprie battaglie ideologiche | @azitelli.bsky.social
Did I got this right? Putin claims that Ukrainians are encircled in #Kursk. US intelligence, many experts and correspondents, aside from Ukrainian authorities, deny this. Trump says that Ukrainians are encircled in Kursk.
Basically a US president trusting the Kremlin over US intelligence?
Basically a US president trusting the Kremlin over US intelligence?
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Did I got this right? Putin claims that Ukrainians are encircled in #Kursk. US intelligence, many experts and correspondents, aside from Ukrainian authorities, deny this. Trump says that Ukrainians are encircled in Kursk.
Basically a US president trusting the Kremlin over US intelligence?
Basically a US president trusting the Kremlin over US intelligence?
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❌ Secondo Matteo Salvini, l’uomo che a novembre ha accoltellato un capotreno a Genova «è già libero», e se l’è cavata con «due lettere di scuse e un minirisarcimento». Le cose non stanno così, per almeno due motivi.
L’aggressore del capotreno di Genova non è libero: Salvini non dice la verità
Ce l’ha confermato la sua avvocata, smentendo quanto scritto dal leader della Lega
pagellapolitica.it
March 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
❌ Secondo Matteo Salvini, l’uomo che a novembre ha accoltellato un capotreno a Genova «è già libero», e se l’è cavata con «due lettere di scuse e un minirisarcimento». Le cose non stanno così, per almeno due motivi.
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Si parla da tempo della necessità di una maggiore educazione ai media: mostrare quindi ai cittadini le tecniche e i meccanismi di verifica per navigare in autonomia nel mare dell’informazione. Con questa idea abbiamo lanciato Dora, il nostro portale di video corsi | @giovannizagni.bsky.social
Vi presentiamo Dora, la nostra piattaforma di media literacy | Facta
Creata da Facta e Pagella Politica, offre percorsi di formazione per aiutare i cittadini a orientarsi nel mondo dell’informazione con fiducia...
www.facta.news
March 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Si parla da tempo della necessità di una maggiore educazione ai media: mostrare quindi ai cittadini le tecniche e i meccanismi di verifica per navigare in autonomia nel mare dell’informazione. Con questa idea abbiamo lanciato Dora, il nostro portale di video corsi | @giovannizagni.bsky.social
The wind is changing in Europe
February 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The wind is changing in Europe
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EDMO stands with the Serbian Center for Research, Transparency & Accountability, operating the fact-checking organisation Istinomer, EFCSN member.
Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press.
EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A
Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press.
EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A
EFCSN condemns police raid on Serbian member Istinomer.rs – European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN)
25 February 2025 – The European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) strongly condemns the police raid on our Serbian member, CRTA...
loom.ly
February 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
EDMO stands with the Serbian Center for Research, Transparency & Accountability, operating the fact-checking organisation Istinomer, EFCSN member.
Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press.
EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A
Their premises were raided by the police. This is unacceptable and an attack on freedom of expression & free press.
EFCSN statement: loom.ly/52my80A
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What role did #disinformation play in yesterday's German #election? How can #Romania, #Poland & the #EU at large prepare for theirs?
👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM
@brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social
👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM
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February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What role did #disinformation play in yesterday's German #election? How can #Romania, #Poland & the #EU at large prepare for theirs?
👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM
@brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social
👉 Join our event: loom.ly/ta4stzM
@brodhub.bsky.social @cedmohub.bsky.social @demagog.org.pl @tommasocanetta.bsky.social @elmerch.bsky.social @goripaula.bsky.social
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🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺 Le bugie di Trump sull’Ucraina ricalcano la propaganda russa. Il presidente americano ha definito “dittatore” l’omologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsità promosse dal Cremlino | @enzopanizio.bsky.social
Le bugie di Trump sull’Ucraina ricalcano la propaganda russa | Facta
Il presidente americano ha definito “dittatore” l’omologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsità...
www.facta.news
February 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺 Le bugie di Trump sull’Ucraina ricalcano la propaganda russa. Il presidente americano ha definito “dittatore” l’omologo ucraino che incolpa di aver iniziato la guerra, facendo proprie diverse altre falsità promosse dal Cremlino | @enzopanizio.bsky.social
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"Responsibility for the large-scale invasion of February 2022 lies entirely on the shoulders of Russia", writes EDMO #FactChecking Coordinator @tommasocanetta.bsky.social.
👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc
👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Responsibility for the large-scale invasion of February 2022 lies entirely on the shoulders of Russia", writes EDMO #FactChecking Coordinator @tommasocanetta.bsky.social.
👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc
👉 Read his facts-based analysis of Donald Trump's recent statements about #Ukraine: loom.ly/k4kHVdc
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Another reason why professional, independent #factcheckers are indispensable: empirical insight.
Last month, 37 member organisations of our #factchecking network produced 1.642 articles on #disinformation pieces in the #EU.
👉 Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s
Last month, 37 member organisations of our #factchecking network produced 1.642 articles on #disinformation pieces in the #EU.
👉 Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Another reason why professional, independent #factcheckers are indispensable: empirical insight.
Last month, 37 member organisations of our #factchecking network produced 1.642 articles on #disinformation pieces in the #EU.
👉 Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s
Last month, 37 member organisations of our #factchecking network produced 1.642 articles on #disinformation pieces in the #EU.
👉 Based on this vital work, here are our key observations: loom.ly/xZwqr6s