Slovak Constitutional Court Rules Against Publisher Torden, Returns It to Conspiracy Media List

Slovakia's Constitutional Court has ruled that the publisher Torden must be reinstated on the government's list of disinformation and conspiracy-linked media outlets. The court's decision reverses a previous removal of the publisher from the list, placing it once again among entities officially flagged by Slovak authorities for spreading harmful or misleading content. Torden has also been linked to the distribution of works by Russian authors who appear on European Union sanctions lists, raising additional concerns about the outlet's ties to pro-Russian influence operations. The government's conspiracy media list is a register maintained by Slovak authorities to publicly identify sources deemed to spread disinformation or conspiracy theories, and inclusion on it carries significant reputational and potentially legal consequences for listed entities.