Assessing the Impact of Disinformation on Minority Communities in Moldova

On one hand, it depicts Gagauzia and interests not only of the ethnic Russian population but also Transnistria as constantly under the threat of invasion from of all Russian speakers broadly in Moldova.6 This involves the West, pushing false reports of NATO tanks in route to attempts to replace the Moldovan government in social and Gagauzia and Transnistria, the impending violent unification human. [...] Russian propaganda is incredibly high-volume and distributed across a variety of sources, which consumes the attention Figure 1: Correlation between the percentage of a locality’s population of target audiences and likely increases the level of its that are members of an ethnic minority group and the combined vote share won by the Bloc of Communists and Socialists (BCS) and the persuasiveness.29 T. [...] The only group for which this dynamic doesn’t hold true empirically is Roma, which may have to do with the low The suspension also fed into the characteristic talking levels of self-reporting as ethnic Roma during the census.38 points of the suspended channels themselves, Ilan Shor, and the Russian government, calling the decision an Whether or not the incredibly high levels of support for “unprec. [...] 4 Media Forward Assessing the Impact of Disinformation on Minority Communities in Moldova December 2023 Addressing the Needs of Roma in Moldova is why local civil society counter-disinformation initiatives that are deeply aware of the local context and attuned to the Recent research has shown that the Roma community is needs of minority communities are so critical and should be particularly suscep. [...] government through multiple sessions that increase awareness of false and European partners should consider the marketing of news and the ways in which it is spread and encourage development assistance and increase the visibility of aid critical thinking and skepticism of media.62 projects.