In today’s digital world, billions of messages fly across the internet every second. They’re sent from friends sharing updates, families staying in touch and professionals conducting business.  Yet hidden among these countless conversations are communications of a darker kind, linked to criminal activities including the online distribution of child sexual abuse material, known in law-enforcement […]

The IPI global network demands the immediate release from custody of Ulvi Hasanli, the director of Abzas Media, an independent news outlet in Azerbaijan. On Monday, searches were carried out at the Baku office of Abzas media, soon after Hasanli was detained. According to the media outlet, Hasanli has already been beaten while under police […]

This document presents the methodological framework built through four case studies conducted as part of the project “Decoding the Disinformation Playbook of Populism in Europe“. This methodology was developed and applied by the Croatian fact-checking organization Faktograf, investigative journalists at the German newspaper Taz, and researchers at the International Press Institute (IPI) to identify the […]

On Tuesday, November 14, Russian media quoted Khadzhikurbanov’s lawyer, Alexey Mikhalchik, who explained that his client was first recruited as a prisoner, was later pardoned and now participates in the war as a contracted fighter. According to the lawyer, Khadzhikurbanov was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin six months after joining the army, in accordance with […]