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FIMI monitoring for public authorities
FIMI monitoring tracks how foreign actors deliberately manipulate information to influence debates, elections and trust in institutions. Holigov measures how networks behave, preserves the evidence and delivers an assessment that public authorities and EU institutions can pass on.
FIMI monitoring
Early-warning review with evidence: score behaviour, not sources wholesale — demo.
Why FIMI is more than a false post
FIMI stands for foreign information manipulation and interference. It describes a pattern of behaviour, not a single false post: intentional, coordinated, often within the grey zone of what is legal, carried by state actors or their proxies. This is also how the European External Action Service frames it.
Classic monitoring counts mentions and sentiment. That does not reveal FIMI. A network may first relay plain facts and only the next day attack the reporting itself. If you only see volume, you spot the pattern too late or judge whole sources wholesale.
How Holigov works
We measure what a network does: when it reacts, how fast content is mirrored across domains and countries, and when relay turns into delegitimisation. Every statement has evidence, gaps are named.
- Monitoring of publicly documented networks, such as the Portal Kombat network described by VIGINUM
- Timelines and synchrony: the same headline on domains for different countries within seconds
- Two phases read separately: fact-based relay on one side, framing and delegitimisation on the other
- Assess behaviour, not entire outlets; no attribution to actors without public evidence
- Situational picture and early warning with thresholds, in GovDash and GovIntel
What you get
A situational picture you can defend internally and with partners: which narratives a network pushes on your topic, how fast, in which pattern, and what requires action.
One example is the Leipzig work sample: 74 items from one network in five days, the same headline on a German and an Austrian domain 66 seconds apart, facts first, framing second. Operated in Germany, on request in your data centre or air-gapped.
Beyond the basics
From finding to decision
FIMI monitoring does not end with a finding. Then come the questions: who needs to know, what is communicated, what is documented? Holigov links the finding to early-warning thresholds and briefings, so an observation becomes a decision.
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