"Russia uses a strategy of gendered disinformation in Ukraine to silence women journalists and create a certain negative image of gender equality and the role of women in democratic societies. Online violence can take on a variety of worms: doxxing, sectoring, trolling, cyberstalking, threats of violence and cyberbullying, as well as certain forms of disinformation and malinformation. There are essentially no data or research about the nature and scope of gendered disinformation as a phenomenon in Ukraine. This subject is not yet the focus of the Center for Combating Disinformation or the The Center for Strategic Communication under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. It can be assumed that this problem is erroneously believed to be insignificant. Content analysis of the information space of Ukraine and Russia (media, social networks, radio, television) using the information and analytical service Attack Index in the period from February 24, 2022 to August 2023 showed the presence of gendered disinformation about Ukrainian journalists." (Key findings)
I. GENDERED DISINFORMATION AS AN UNDERESTIMATED THREAT OF THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN UKRAINE, 9
II. GENDERED DISINFORMATION REGARDING UKRAINIAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS. CONTENT ANALYSIS USING BIG DATA METHODOLOGY, 15
The case of Nataliia Moseichuk, Ukrainian journalist, news anchor of the 1+1 TV channel, 24
The case of Iryna Sampan, Ukrainian journalist of Butusov+, 26
The case of Sara Ashton-Cirillo, an American journalist, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 34
Other cases of gendered disinformation about women journalists: Polina Vernyhor, Gayane Avakyan, Maryna Mukhina, 42
III. SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO COMBAT GENDERED DISINFORMATION ABOUT WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN UKRAINE, 45