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Hybrid threats: Analysis of content, callenges posed and measures to overcome

By Eitvydas Bajarūnas and Vytautas Keršanskas, for Sciendo Volume/Issue: Volume 16: Issue 1 First Online: 11 Jan 2019 Page Count: 123–170 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lasr-2018-0006 Abstract The study...

Strategic Analysis: Going Beyond Resilience. A revitalised approach to countering hybrid threats

By Heine Sørensen & Dorthe Bach Nyemann, for HybridCOE Strategic Analysis January 8, 2019 “Whereas resilience is a necessary building block in creating a coherent strategy towards Russia,...

Russian influence operations on Twitter

By Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Carl Miller, Jamie Bartlett Josh Smith, Agnès Chauvet, for Demos On 17 October 2018 Twitter released two previously unseen datasets: nine million tweets from...

Checking facts and fighting back: Why journalists should defend their profession

By Raymond J. Pingree, Brian Watson, Mingxiao Sui, Kathleen Searles, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Joshua P. Darr, Martina Santia, Kirill Bryanov Published: December 10, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208600 Abstract Bias accusations...

Chaos as a strategy: Putin’s “Promethean” Gamble

By Donald N. Jensen, Peter B. Doran, for CEPA 15 November 2018 Can Vladimir Putin’s nonlinear strategy succeed against the West? For all of Russia’s weaknesses as...

How to boost the Western response to Russian hostile influence operations

By Jakub Janda, for European View Abstract The Russian Federation has become a rogue state in international relations, invading and occupying the territories of three European...

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,...