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La désinformation et ses applications aux conflits internationaux via les médias: Comment une Afrique en quête de démocratie peut s'en protéger?
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 176 pp.
"La question des « fakes news » ou de la désinformation - on ne peut plus actuelle - se pose avec d’autant plus de légitimité et d’acuité que les mass media et les réseaux sociaux sont devenus incontournables. Le champ d’action de cette théorie de la désinformation ne relève plus seu
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Mecanismos de la posverdad
Lima: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 152 pp.
Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Oxford: Computational Propaganda Research Project (2017), 36 pp.
"Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations created, often with public money, to help define and manage what is in the best interest of the public. We compare su
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Perils of Perception 2017
Ipsos (2017), 42 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 38 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality … Things are not as bad as they seem ... Only a small minorit
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Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?
Omidyar Group (2017), 20 pp.
"It is becoming increasingly apparent that fundamental principles underlying democracy—trust, informed dialogue, a shared sense of reality, mutual consent, and participation—are being put to the test by certain features and attributes of social media. As technology companies increasingly achieve
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Finding the Truth Amongst the Fakes: Social Newsgathering in the Arab World
Qatar: Al Jazeera Media Institute (2017), 182 pp.
"[...] this book aims to draw from the experience of Arab journalists and experts in the Arab World to help journalists enhance their news verification and social newsgathering skills. We hope the publication contributes to the ongoing debate on techniques and ethics that surrounds user-generated co
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"The share of interviewed persons who said that mass media in the Republic of Moldova behaves to a great extent responsibly to its audience remains at a very low level—8% (7% in September 2016, 8% in January 2016). However, as we can see in the chart below, there are also some good signs, despite
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Soviet Subversion, Disinformation and Propaganda: How the West Fought Against it. An Analytic History, with Lessons for the Present
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017), 7 pp.
"What were Soviet influence and disinformation campaigns? What did the West do about them? This study answers these questions, explaining the Cold War strategies followed by the USSR, as well as the Western response. Eleven case studies follow, each one examining a counter-disinformation tactic in d
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Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
Deep Insights
Data & Society Research Institute (2017), 104 pp.
"Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate news frames, set agendas, and propagate ideas. Far-right groups have developed techniques of 'attention hacking' to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots - as
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Resisting Foreign State Propaganda in the New Information Environment: The Case of the EU, Russia, and the Eastern Partnership Countries
Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) (2016), 293 pp.
"With well-organised and far-reaching weapons of information Russia has succeeded in sowing doubt about the need for democratic values and is therefore also undermining faith in democratic countries, weakening it. Russia government uses lies, concealment, and the manipulation of anything that can se
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Fake News: The Narrative Battle Over the Ukrainian Conflict
Journalism Practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 891-901
"The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative by providing counter-narratives and debunking distorted information and fake
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Countering Russian Propaganda
Per Concordiam: Journal of European Security and Defense Issues, issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.
"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th
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The Counter-Narrative Monitoring & Evaluation Handbook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2016), 55 pp.
"The aim of this handbook is to provide civil society campaigners with the knowledge and skills they need to undertake high quality counter-narrative campaign evaluations. It presents model frameworks and case studies of successful counter-narrative M&E, as well as a range of useful tools and resour
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"Only 8% of respondents stated that the media in Moldova exhibit, to a very large extent, a responsible behavior toward their audiences. The majority of respondents or 56% stated they were dissatisfied with the lack of responsibility of the national media. One in ten respondents considered him/herse
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The Counter-Narrative Handbook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2016), 66 pp.
Perils of Perception 2016: A 40-Country Study
Ipsos (2016), 30 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a
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Distract, Deceive, Destroy: Putin at War in Syria
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2016), 24 pp.
"This paper sets out how Russia built up its disinformation campaign, by analyzing what was said and comparing it with what was done. Using open source and social media intelligence (OSSMINT), it exposes the false claims that Russia targeted ISIS or defeated international terrorism. It reveals that,
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Collective Memory as a Resource in Russian Information Warfare Against Latvia
Journalism Research (Žurnalistikos tyrimai, engl. edition), issue 8 (2015), pp. 92-115
"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c
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Perils of Perception 2015: A 33 Country Study
Ipsos (2015), 30 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 33 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… People generally overestimate the total household wealth tha
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