If you tried to find out whether disinformation on social media was a problem in the recent elections to the European Parliament, you would be forgiven for being confused.
Some organisations reported only limited problems.
The Oxford Internet Institute noted that only a few social media items related to the elections were 'junk news'.
The University Duisberg-Essen showed that the best-performing Twitter accounts in the UK and German...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO that supports democratic participation and works on methodologies of social media monitoring.