02/12/2024
Stories move faster than facts. This edition helps you to keep up with three things: a narrative detection tool you can try today, a free MOOC to build skills at your own pace, and a Wikipedia Sensitivity tracker for a bird-eye view of potential information manipulation in the Knowledge Commons.

Disinformation spreads through stories. Stories are part of the tactics. Practitioners tell us they need tools that explain what a message says and why it is persuasive —not only how it’s deployed.
PROMPT adds that narrative-and-rhetoric layer. It helps you catch patterns early and dissect them. Ultimately, it contributes to developing a shared grammar within the ecosystem to better fight disinformation. → Learn how PROMPT reads narratives
From ballot boxes to culture wars, the latest PROMPT Narrative Report tracks the mechanics of disinformation: which stories dominate the narrative market, where messages are seeded, how they’re repackaged and pushed by disinformation proxies.
You’ll read insights from Moldova’s parliamentary election (Diaspora Initiative colleagues examine how regional geopolitics intertwine with domestic grievances), the war in Ukraine (a long-running attention engine), and LGBTQ+ debates (a culture-war vector).
We close with interviews from six European newsrooms on the disinformation trends they observe and what we should do about it.
Test PROMPT and explore disinformation at scale:
- PROMPT Corpus Analyser: Upload or select a dataset and explore the bigger picture. Spot recurring rhetorical patterns, and detect signs of coordination at scale.
- Wikipedia Sensitivity Meter: Analyse singles pages, multiples pages, or large datasets of Wikipedia pages and identify heated discussions, vulnerable pages and suspicious behaviours. .
We’ve already road-tested PROMPT with at EUDisinfoLab, with German journalists at Besser Online, at the Francophone WikiConvention 2025... We’re now extending the beta to the wider public.
→ Ready to explore? Join our beta program for regular updates and access to our tools
Attend the Demo Session
Join our 50-minute live demo on 11 December 2025, 2:30PM CET to learn how to:
- Use the Corpus Analyser to upload/select datasets;
- Work with the Wikipedia Sensitivity Meter (WSM) and Wikipedia Sensitivity Barometer;
- Learn how these tools can help in your investigations and analyses.
The session includes a live demo + Q&A.
The PROMPT MOOC is online and free to join! Create an account on the COPE platform, enroll, and start anytime.
It’s designed both for classroom use (professors can plug modules into courses) and for any OSINTer who wants to understand the stakes behind the use of AI in disinformation and have a clear, actionable guide to detecting disinformation narratives, rhetoric, and signs of coordination.
The Wikipedia Sensitivity Barometer (WSB) looks for disinformation upstream. What happens on Wikipedia has an impact on the information we consume (not least through your LLM assistant).
In the case of Moldovan election, the Diaspora Initiative detected through the Barometer flagged two recurring fault lines: subtle historical revisionism (selective edits and shaky citations around identity-laden pages) and coordinated editing by look-alike accounts (“sockpuppets”) that inflate or steer narratives across languages. Andra-Lucia Martinescu will also speak about on 10 December with our friends from context.ro and Partisan.
→ Register
By combining ‘weak’ signals the WSB highlights pages that deserve a closer look—long before election fever hits the feeds. The dashboard went live this month.
- INACH Annual Summit — Driving Change, 26 Sept. (ADB Romania)
- WikiConvention Francophone, 5 Oct. (Wikimédia France)
- Workshop on Constitutional Courts & Electoral Integrity, 24 Sept. (ADB Romania)
- Digital Frontlines 2025, 8 Oct. (opsci.ai)
- EUDisinfo2025 Ljubljana, 15–16 Oct.: Our live session with Rémy Gerbet (Wikimédia France) and Jordan Ricker (opsci.ai)—packed the room. The PROMPT × Wikipedia presentation drew sustained interest, and the PROMPT stand was buzzing, with many attendees trying the beta and sharing thoughtful feedback. → See the recap
- What PROMPT does: Case-Study Romania, PROMPT MOOC Findings Panel — Milan, 25 Oct (OriPo & Erich Brost Institute & Andra-Lucia Martinescu from Diaspora Initiative)
- Numériques en Commun, 29–30 Oct. (Wikimédia France, opsci.ai)
- HORIZON FIMI Cluster meeting, online, 5 Nov. (opsci.ai) — see our presentation
- European Journalism Observatory annual meeting, Wroclaw, Poland, 21 Nov (Erich Brost Institute & opsci.ai)
- Meet the Future of AI - Support for the European Democratic Shield, Horizon Europe Policy and Innovation, Brussels (and online), 2 Dec. (opsci.ai)
Meet us at:
- Digital Governance Research Colloquium, online, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School of Governance, 10 Dec. (opsci.ai)
- Political Tech Review: Hybrid interference in the Moldovan elections, 11 Dec. (opsci.ai & Andra-Lucia Martinescu from Diaspora Initiative)
- France–Quebec Roundtable on Digital Commons, 11 Dec. (Wikimédia France, opsci.ai)