Giovana Faria is a social media producer for RFE/RL's Central Newsroom in Prague.
European Union regulators are launching a probe into TikTok after it said foreign actors from Russia used the social media platform to interfere in the Romanian presidential elections.
U.S. experts say Iran is running a preelection disinformation campaign, using websites partially written by ChatGPT to sow discord in society. So what do these websites look like?
For the second time, Iran has directly attacked Israel, launching hundreds of missiles on October 1. Analysts say the timing and logic of the attacks are down to pressure on Iran to respond following Israel's decisive blows against Lebanon-based Hezbollah leaders and Hamas.
Did you know Instagram is automatically limiting what it deems political content on your feed? This also affects news organizations covering political topics, such as RFE/RL.
Ukraine is meeting with allies today at the Ramstein air base in Germany to discuss further military aid. The meeting is with Western allies, NATO and EU members, and others. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is attending personally, planning to ask for U.S. cruise missiles (JASSMs).
Russian President Vladimir Putin was technically supposed to get arrested during a state visit to Mongolia on September 3. But he didn’t. Why?
Why does NATO want more control of the Arctic? Because Russia is surpassing it, having one-third more military bases in the Arctic than all NATO members put together.
Despite claims by the Taliban that women would not be discriminated against by its new government, the rights and freedoms of women and girls have been dramatically curtailed in Afghanistan, raising alarm among international human rights organizations.
With a long list of crimes punishable by death, Iran put at least 314 prisoners to death last year, second only to China, which recorded more than 1,000 executions. The Iran Human Rights organization actually puts the figure at 333. That’s up from 267 executions in Iran in 2020.
In addition to thousands of deaths and the destruction of crucial infrastructure, another, more invisible, crisis tied to Russia’s invasion could haunt Ukraine for years: environmental damage.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is creating a food shortage that has worldwide repercussions. Russia and Ukraine are key agricultural suppliers, and the conflict has only served to highlight the fragility of the global food-supply chain when two major players are essentially taken off the market.
In addition to its military might, Russia wields a big political weapon: energy supplies to the EU. In response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, EU leaders are implementing tough sanctions on Moscow. They are also talking about becoming less dependent on Russia's gas imports -- a challenging task.
What have NATO members done to support Ukraine and how much public support do they have at home?
