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WEEKEND READ: The dangerous chasm between world of the informed and everyone else The headline finding from the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report, released in recent days, was that for the first time, social and video platforms have overtaken both television and news websites as a source of news. Fifty-four percent of respondents across dozens of countries said they had used...

Universul.net is committed to covering the phenomenon of disinformation which has become a complex hybrid threat to national security and democracy. We have investigated and exposed a wide range of manipulation campaigns and tactics as well as ways and campaigns to tackle it. This is a translation and adaptation of an article published by Ziarul de Iasi and reported by...

The London- and Bucharest-based platform BRDG3 Capital has launched Nexus Fund I, a growth fund investing in the chronically underfunded space between angel rounds and large private equity funds—backed by one of the most diverse international teams in the European growth equity sector. BRDG3 Capital (“BRDG3”), a new multi-vertical investment platform this week announced its public launch, a bid to...

Andrew and Tristan Tate have lost a legal challenge seeking the identities of the women accusing them in the United Kingdom. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has withheld the names to reduce the risk that they could become public before criminal proceedings begin. The brothers are due to face charges in the UK, including rape, human trafficking and other offenses, once...

Total control of the governing program" "Total freedom in the choice of ministers" PSD "will play its own hand" This is what PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu said Wednesday, when he announced that his party would assume a minority government. But only two days later, after talks held on Friday with the leaders of the pro-Western parties, President Nicușor Dan declared:...

Romania's President Nicusor Dan expressed his frustration on Friday after failing to come to an agreement with the country's warring political parties over a candidate for prime minister. He implored the parties to return to a dialogue and deliver Romania "a fully functioning government." The country has been in political turmoil since May 5 when the Liberal-led coalition government was ousted...

Siegfried Muresan was the pick of the Liberals, the Save Romania Union and the UDMR ethnic Hungarian party The three political parties on Friday advanced MEP Siegfried Mureșan as their joint proposal for the position of prime minister to President Nicușor Dan in a bid to end a seven-week political crisis. The 44-year-old Mureșan is vice-president of the National Liberal Party...

Russia defends atomic weapons as guarantors of peace, but also offers the prime example of how they allow conventional outrage under the blackmail of nuclear escalation. That explains much about Iran. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this week that nuclear weapons are “the only thing that protects the world from a global war.” That is rich, coming from the country...

President Maia Sandu said the bill that passed Romania's lower chamber of deputies was actually meant to discredit the idea. President Sandu herself supports union with Romania in the right circumstances, but the draft that passed Romania’s lower chamber of deputies this week was initiated by a party with pro-Russian views and was not genuine, she said. Moscow opposes unification of...

A group of websites posing as local media outlets in Luxembourg, Poland and Ukraine publishes fake stories, reputational attacks and recycled “dossiers” targeting businessmen and public figures from Eastern Europe. Responses from Cloudflare Trust & Safety, reviewed by our newsroom, point to the same hosting provider behind a number of these domains: Private Layer INC. At first glance, these websites...