In an age where disinformation is widespread, understanding its societal mechanisms and impacts and identifying effective countermeasures demand thorough research and collaborative efforts. Through research and investigative efforts, EDMO BELUX 2.0 is dedicated to tackling disinformation campaigns, with a specific focus on improve our understanding of how disinformation campaigns and platform policies affect societal and democratic processes and structures in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Building on the work initiated in the first EDMO BELUX project, EDMO BELUX 2.0 expands a well-established multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder network, enhancing its capability to detect, analyse, and expose disinformation within Belgium and Luxembourg. This collaborative network draws from the expertise of researchers, fact-checkers, media literacy organisations and disinformation analysts to deepen insights and broaden impact.
The research and studies carried out by the EDMO BELUX 2.0 partners aim to:
- Produce up-to-date, in-depth knowledge on past, current, and emerging disinformation phenomena in Belgium and Luxembourg, and analyse the impact of disinformation on Belgian and Luxembourgish societies.
- Contribute to the evaluation of relevant national and European policies applicable in Belgium and Luxembourg; identify policy breaches revealed by disinformation campaigns; report actions taken by platforms or the counter-disinformation community; and provide recommendations for a more consistent and relevant application of existing national and EU legislation.
- Actively participate in the research and policy activities coordinated by the EDMO network, especially within the Research and Policy Working Groups, monitor the implementation of the Code of Practice on Disinformation (CoP), develop structural indicators to measure CoP impact, and support EDMO activities aimed at improving researchers’ access to data from online platforms.
Through these comprehensive research and collaborative efforts, EDMO BELUX 2.0 seeks to build a more resilient society, prepared to understand and counter the influence of harmful disinformation campaigns in Belgium, Luxembourg, and beyond.