A Telegram channel activated last Friday and fraudulently branded as Euronews Romania is planting disinformation and false claims targeting the Romanian and Moldovan presidents.
Its creators – which have no affiliation or link to Euronews – claim that Romania’s recently elected President Nicușor Dan discussed “methods of combating the opposition press” with his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu during his visit to Chișinău on Tuesday.
Euroverify analysed both presidents’ statements to the press during that visit and found no evidence to back these allegations.
Sandu instead accused Russia of waging a “war of manipulation and misinformation”, while Dan vowed closer cooperation on tackling Moscow’s “hybrid warfare”.
The unfounded claims made in the bogus channel have been directly quoted in Russian state-sponsored newspaper Pravda.
In a pinned post, the creators also purport that the Telegram channel is an “official” source of Euronews Romania reporting created by the management team to counter the recent use of doctored Euronews reports on the messaging app.
However, neither the channel nor its content is the work of Euronews journalists.
Euronews Romania does not have an official channel on Telegram, and said in a statement that the action is part of a "sustained” disinformation campaign that “illegally” uses Euronews’ branding.
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