European laboratory for cognitive defence

Research, monitoring, and training on digital polarisation in Europe.

DuMonde Lab translates academic research on affective polarisation, digital nationalism, and emotional governance into operational tools for institutions, newsrooms, and researchers.

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IFCN sources monitored in real time

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Digital polarisation is structural, not incidental.

Europe's information space is shaped by algorithmic incentives, geopolitical asymmetries, and affective dynamics that reinforce one another. The scientific literature documents them. The institutional response does not yet integrate them.

Cognitive defence is not a metaphor.

It is a set of practices, tools, and competencies that can be taught, audited, and assessed. DuMonde Lab works on its operationalisation for European institutional contexts.

Research is not enough. Translation is the work.

Between the academic paper and the policy decision there is a gap. Our focus is that gap: converting findings into diagnostic frameworks, tools, and training that institutions can actually use.

Understand. See. Act.

Three connected lines of work: research that maps the mechanisms, tools that make them verifiable, training that translates both into institutional capacity.

RESEARCH

Affective polarisation, digital nationalism, and emotional governance.

A research programme on the psychological, algorithmic, and geopolitical mechanisms that structure polarisation in Europe's information space. Publications with the Institute for European and Global Applied Studies (IEGA), a contribution to the Atlas stratégique des armées françaises 2026 (DGRIS / IEGA), and a master's thesis on digital nationalism and the fragmentation of European identity. Open access in ES, FR, EN.

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TOOLS

Operational diagnostics of the information space.

Bubble Lens — an algorithmic filter bubble simulator for educational and diagnostic use. Buzón de Escucha — a political listening platform with a fully documented ethical and legal architecture. Disinfo Watch — a real-time aggregator of IFCN fact-checks (Maldita.es, AFP Factuel, and others). Open tools for journalists, researchers, and educators. Advanced integrations and bespoke dashboards for institutions.

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INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING AND ADVISORY

Audits and bespoke programmes on polarisation, information manipulation, and cognitive defence.

Emotional governance audits for public and private organisations. Applied training programmes for ministries, regulatory agencies, newsrooms, and public communication teams. Affective polarisation diagnostics for electoral and crisis contexts.

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DISINFO WATCH · Open monitoring

Real-time fact-checking from the IFCN network

Aggregating fact-checks published by verification media members of the International Fact-Checking Network. Updated hourly.

conflictLOW

Did Trump say of Iran, 'Let 'em take out' LA and San Diego?

Snopes (IFCN member)

geopoliticsLOW

No, este vídeo de vacas en "jaulas de plástico" no se grabó en Argentina, es una ganadería de Kansas (EEUU)

Maldita.es (IFCN member)

technologyLOW

Bulos, desinformaciones y contexto de la acampada por la vivienda de la Puerta del Sol y del desahucio de Maricarmen

Maldita.es (IFCN member)

2026-10-07Open Disinfo Watch

Research

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Thesis · JAN 2026

Digital Nationalism and the Fragmentation of European Identity

This master's thesis examines the intersection of digital technologies and nationalist movements within the European Union, developing a novel framework for 'Preventive Psychosocial Diplomacy' as a complementary approach to existing institutional responses.

Policy Brief · DEC 2024

Closing the Emotional Gap: Preventive Psychosocial Diplomacy for the EU

EU counter-disinformation measures address information supply but not psychological demand. This brief proposes complementing existing tools with preventive psychosocial institutions.

Working Paper · DEC 2024

Preventive Psychosocial Diplomacy: A Framework for the EU

The European Union has developed the world's most advanced regulatory framework for platform governance, yet nationalist movements continue to outperform institutional responses on the emotional dimension of political communication.

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Fellows Programme A European network for cognitive defence

Access by invitation. Calls for applications open twice a year.

A curated network of researchers, journalists, policy professionals, and analysts working on digital polarisation, information manipulation, and emotional governance. Structured participation in three formats: reading groups, closed sessions with invited institutions, and collaborative projects.

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