• Priority Area Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe
• Funding Round / Action Types 11th Funding Round – Urgent Actions
• Year 2025, 2026
• Country Romania
• Project Status Ongoing

Over five monthly Plan–Investigate–Verify–Publish–Amplify cycles, operation Clear Signal integrates continuous open-source monitoring, in-depth investigative reporting (leveraging Ukrainian collaborator expertise), manual fact-checking, and real-time AI-driven TikTok verification to systematically expose and correct neo-Nazi and sovereignist propaganda, delivering the following:

• 5 in-depth investigations (3 000–4 000 words each), reconstructing extremist network structures and funding via leaked documents, expert interviews and OSINT tools (AHREFS, SIMILARWEB) App form.
• 25 fact-checks (10 manual; 15 AI-driven), auto-flagging and debunking emerging extremist claims within hours using our proprietary TikTok tracker trained on 400 000+ videos App form.
• Multimedia outreach: five ~90 s explainer videos and five text+graphic social posts optimized for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube—targeting ≥ 400 000 total views and ≥ 500 engagements App form.

Added value: a replicable, EU-wide rapid-response blueprint, coordinated through EDMO’s FACT Hub, embedding Ukrainian collaborators and sharing anonymized protocols to bolster democratic resilience across member states App form.

Targets:

1. Youth (18–34): practical digital-media literacy tools.
2. Journalists & CSOs: data-driven toolkits and briefings.
3. Romanian diaspora: syndicated reporting via partner outlets.