2021 Disinfo Research Highlights
By EU vs Disinfo
With the body of research growing rapidly, we know a lot more about the mechanics and impact of disinformation than we...
Jabbed in the Back: Mapping Russian and Chinese Information Operations During COVID-19
By Ben Dubow, Edward Lucas, Jake Morris, for CEPA
Executive Summary
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spread disinformation about the efficacy of...
Amplifiers: How Pro-Kremlin Narratives Spread in French-Speaking Facebook
By Nino Rizhamadze, Nini Gvilia, Volodymyr Yermolenko for UkraineWorld
UW recently analyzed pro-Kremlin discourse in some segments of German social networks. This article is focusing...
The GLOBSEC Vulnerability Index: Evaluating susceptibility to foreign malign influence in 8 Central European...
By Dominika Hajdu, Katarína Klingová, Miroslava Sawiris, for GLOBSEC
Find the PDF file here.
The GLOBSEC Vulnerability Index measures vulnerability towards foreign influence in eight countries: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary,...
Sputnik Srbija Piggy-Backing On Local Outlets
By EU vs Disinfo
New study on Russia’s Footprint in the Western Balkans Information Environment
Kremlin-funded Sputnik has a limited reach in the Western Balkans, but...
SPUTNIK V: the Russian Success?
By Viola von Cramon
Please find the study
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in English
In August 2020, President Putin surprised the world by claiming to have approved the first vaccine against...
How to Protect the Czech Economy from Foreign Predators and Malign Influence?
By European Values Center for Security Policy
In this paper, the European Values Center for Security Policy (EVC) identifies the People’s Republic of China’s...
Disinformation Resilience Index in Central and Eastern Europe in 2021
This article was originally published on the East Center website
The 2021 Disinformation Resilience Index study covers four Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and...
Punitive laws are failing to curb misinformation in Africa. Time for a rethink
By Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Alan Finlay, Anya Schiffrin, for The Conversation
Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it was intended to...
Fake news: a simple nudge isn’t enough to tackle it – here’s what to...
By Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek, for The Conversation
One high-profile theory of why people share fake news says that they aren’t paying sufficient...