This study highlights that dominant disinformation narratives frame migrants and migration as a threat to Europeans’ health, wealth, and identity. It discusses issues linked to definitions, core threat-based narratives in disinformation campaigns and explores the role of key actors, both foreign and domestic, in spreading disinformation. The role of social media and relevant transformations in the wider media and information ecosystem is investigated. Strategies used in disinformation campaigns and exploitation of personal beliefs and anxieties are also addressed. This leads to exploring the negative impacts of disinformation, and the responses public authorities, civil society, and media organisations can formulate and to know how to counter disinformation, The conclusion in this report offers research and policy recommendations to address disinformation and preserve social cohesion in an increasingly polarised environment.

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AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list “Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025. Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including social media, to create the annual list of new and notable words that reflect our ever-evolving language. Continue reading...