The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses 2.0
By Atlantic Council
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“Russia’s interference in the US presidential election in 2016 sent a signal to the West: democratic societies are...
Does Russia interfere in Czech, Austrian and Hungarian elections?
By Political Capital
The French and the German elections clearly proved two things about Russian meddling efforts. First, there were obvious attempts to interfere in...
Robotrolling 2017/1
Prepared by Dr Rolf Fredheim and published by NATO Strategis Communication Centre of Excellence
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Executive Summary
Two in three Twitter users who...
Making online platforms responsible for news content
By Klára Votavova, Jakub Janda, for European Values
This paper aims to contribute to the highly salient debate on fake news and hate speech by...
Fellow travellers: Russia, anti-Westernism, and Europe’s political parties
By Gustav Gressel, for European Council of Foreign Relations
SUMMARY
There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian...
Information warfare in the Internet. Exposing and countering pro-Kremlin disinformation in the CEE Countries
Teaching children to distinguish fake news from the real ones as early as at primary school; naming & shaming the authors of disinformation stories;...
Computational propaganda in Ukraine: caught between external threats and internal challenges
Social media being used by governments to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion, finds first comparative study of automated political propaganda worldwide
Social...
Awareness and Attitude toward the Problem of Disinformation and Propaganda in Mass Media
The research goal of the StopFake project was to find out the level of awareness and attitude of Ukrainian citizens regarding the problems of...
Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus
By Adam Hulcoop, John Scott-Railton, Peter Tanchak, Matt Brooks, and Ron Deibert, CitizenLab
“Every external operation is first and foremost a domestic one: the single...
The activity of pro-Russian extremist groups in Central-Eastern Europe
Source: Political Capital
About the project
Political Capital documented the conducted research on Russian actors and hate groups in Central Europe and raised awareness of this...