Thursday, April 25, 2024

Research

Smearing Sweden: International Influence Campaigns in the 2018 Swedish Election

By Chloe Colliver, Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Birdwell, for ISD October 2018 This report presents the findings of a project that investigated foreign attempts to...

Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Kumar Bandeli. Examining strategic integration of social media platforms in disinformation...

By NATO Stratcom Centre of Excellence Download publication file (2.54 MB) Social media platforms are widely used for sharing information. Although social media use is generally benign,...

Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter

By Knight Foundation DOWNLOAD PDF THIS STUDY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ANALYSES TO DATE ON HOW FAKE NEWS SPREAD ON TWITTER BOTH DURING AND AFTER...

Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst,...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Only 43 percent of Americans find it easy to distinguish opinion from news on digital news sites or social media,...

Fakes Debunked by the StopFake Project between 2014-2017: Narratives and Sources

This analytical report includes the results of research conducted by StopFake analysts based on archived data of debunked messages from Russian media. The StopFake project...

Russia’s Use of Media and Information Operations in Turkey

By Katherine Costello, for RAND Copyright: RAND Corporation Availability: Web-Only Pages: 19 DOI: 10.7249/PE278 Document Number: PE-278-A Year: 2018 Series: Perspectives Russian media have sought to undermine Turkey's political and security cooperation with...

Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it...

By Christine Schmidt, for NiemanLab Forty-two percent of Democrats say the news they get on social media has helped their understanding of current events, compared...

Russian influence in the media sectors of the Black Sea countries

By Center for the Study of Democracy The report explores Russia’s corporate presence and influence in the media sectors of five Black Sea countries (Bulgaria,...

2018 Ranking of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operations

By European Values This report is a follow-up to the Overview of countermeasures by the EU28 to the Kremlin’s subversion operationsconducted by the European Values Think-Tank and...

Countering information influence activities: A handbook for communicators

By RIB-Meny The handbook aims to assist and support communication specialists in public administration to identify, analyse and counter information influence activities in order to...