Alina Bârgăoanu, PhD is a Romanian communication scholar at the College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Bucharest); she is a member of the Advisory Board of European Digital Media Observatory ( EDMO ) and of EDMO’s task force on the war in Ukraine; she was a Marcin Król Fellow at Visegrad Insight (October 2021 – September 2022) and a visiting fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (October 2018 – March 2019); she is a media commentator and columnist on topics related to disinformation, anti-Western propaganda, resilience, the impact of technology on democracy and on the information ecosystem.