Disinformation does not stop at borders. Countermeasures must therefore be just as international and interlinked. But are they? As part of Upgrade Democracy, we investigated this question in close cooperation with regional research partners in order to gain an overview of the global landscape of anti-disinformation initiatives and to identify commonalities and differences that will help us to further develop successful countermeasures. As we conclude this research, we recently published a series of 7 reports: The Digital Asia Hub team (Hong Kong) explores nine country-level case studies from Asia, CIPESA (Uganda) sheds light on the relationships, attitudes, and patterns of actors in Africa, GPPi (Germany) looks at the landscape of civil society and private sector initiatives in Europe, the Bertelsmann Foundation North America (USA) takes a look at the troubling situation in the U.S. and Asociación de Derechos Civiles (Argentina) paints a multifaceted picture of the situation in Latin America. A sixth report, co-authored with Clara Iglesias Keller examines government responses to disinformation and outlines the risks and potentials of various international approaches. 

In addition, our team compiled findings, trends, and illustrative examples from all six reports and analysed them structured along 14 relevant observations in a 7th report in this series. All of them available here.

The reports have been picked up by Deutsche Welle in several languages, for example in English, German, and Spanish.