At our KAS Academy for Political Communication 2025 in Belgrade, communication specialists highlighted that building trust in politics, institutions, media & society takes time, consistency, reliability & shared values. 📢

Perplexity sets up a 42.5M $ fund and plans to give 80% of revenues to publishers. But questions remain - which outlets will truly benefit and how will the money be shared globally?. 🔗: Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers - WSJ.

X: In our interview with Irina Nedeva for Bulgarian National Radio we presented our latest publication on narratives in Southeast Europe - a region highly exposed to disinformation. 🔗See the full interview:

⚠️Bulgaria is Europe’s most vulnerable to disinformation – low media literacy and news avoidance let false narratives spread across the EU. Read the whole publication here:

📢 Meet Iveta Tomeva – our new Project Coordinator at KAS Media Programme Southeast Europe!. She is a former scholar and business journalist, now eager to participate in our initiatives as part of the team!

⚠️RSF warns of growing political and financial threats to public media in the EU. At KAS Media Programme SEE we believe public media outlets are offering citizens reliable information, ensuring an independent media landscape. 🔗:

📖 Our book “Narratives. Experiences from Southeast Europe and Beyond” examines how stories shape identities, politics, media situation and the healing process in Southeast Europe, South Africa, Rwanda, Ukraine, and Germany. 🔗:

Google is shifting from a search engine to an answer engine – AI tools are cutting traffic to news sites. At KAS Media SEE, we see this as a call to accept the post-search era and stay committed to trusted sources. 🔗

Russia’s new “fact-checking” site GFCN isn’t fighting disinformation — it’s spreading it. RSF reveals it as a tool to discredit independent media and confuse the public.For KAS Media SEE, this reflects a tactic to discredit free media.🔗

New from @KASonline: International Reports 🎙️🌍 – the English-language #podcast featuring voices and analyses from our offices around the world on political, social, and security developments. Subscribe for free now: 

📚 @KASMediaSEE publishes "Narratives. Experiences from Southeast Europe and Beyond" – nine texts exploring the role of stories in media, politics and for the cohesion in a society. 🔗 Full text available online:

Great to host Alexander Beribes, Desk Officer for the Western Balkans & Southeast Europe, in Sofia! He met with Bulgarian media stakeholders, visited @bTV, and held a working meeting with our scholars. A valuable day of dialogue and exchange! 🤝

Happy to take part in the ZEG Festival in Tbilissi/Georgia. @KASmediaSEE on stage about Reporting from far away places and which narratives to use to make audiences interested. #ZEG2025 #CodaStory

The latest report of @STRATCOMCOE examines the shifting landscape of digital influence operations targeting NATO, Ukraine, the EU, & the United States. The study shows that pro-Russian & pro-Chinese narratives are increasingly aligned. The ones affiliated with Russia are more and

🚨How Russian Propaganda Works — An Example .A recent story claims that France’s intelligence services asked #Telegram to silence conservatives in Romania ahead of their presidential election run-off. Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, even posted on his channel that he refused to.

The @CSDBuildBridges report "Pravda’s Web" investigates the Bulgarian branch of the #Pravda ecosystem — a network of websites that floods the Internet with pro-Kremlin content. It targets over 50 countries, primarily in Europe. The analysis explores the Bulgarian #Pravda’s web.

You still have a chance to apply for our Adenauer Journalism Scholarship! We prolong the application deadline for the winter semester 2025/2026 until 10.06.2025 at media.europe@kas.de. The scholarship is intended for B.A. journalism students and M.A. students (enrolled at