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What are the consequences of these phenomena for the information environment? Most importantly, do these phenomena pose a threat for our societal security? This study will provide actionable knowledge by answering to these questions. Particular emphasis is placed on the cognitive biases that enable information manipulation. In turn, this will lead to a discussion about the tactics employed by adversarial actors to carry out information activities.
The overall aim of the research is to identify means how Russia with the help of mass media influences the Euro-Atlantic values and redefines the meaning of democracy, media freedom, human rights, trust to international organisations, freedom of speech and other values in the EuroAtlantic space for different societal groups during the crisis in Ukraine.
The research group looks at how messages disseminated in the media attempt to construct attitudes and advocate behaviours in parallel to political and military events on the ground in Ukraine. The research covers the period from 1 April until 31 December and analyses the following Russian media: These media are important because they target not only Russian internal audience but also the Russian-speaking communities in the former territory of the USSR.
The researchers used standardised content analysis in accordance to a specially developed Coding Manual and enriched the findings with data from 25 structured interviews with Ukrainian representatives media, political and military experts, as well as soldiers and officers involved in the military conflict. From December the Russian military has adopted a new doctrine that explicitly states that information superiority is essential to achieving victory on the physical battleground in the modern war.
It is crucial for NATO to draw appropriate conclusions from the on-going conflict in Europe in order to further strengthen the unity of the alliance and avoid such conflict scenarios between Russia and NATO in the future. Information operations were used at all levels starting with the political level against the state of Ukraine, state structures, politicians up to the tactical level for justifying military actions initiated by pro-Russian forces.
Information confrontation and a variety of psychological operations continue to play a substantial role in the current crisis in Ukraine.
Russia uses various media channels to conduct its operations against Ukraine, including governmental and private TV channels e. Radio Mayak , mobile phone operators e. KyivStar , Internet sources including online publications, e.
Some Ukrainian sources hold pro-Russian attitudes and can also be used to spread disinformation e. These mass media channels are generally critical against the Ukrainian government and armed forces, but do not offer a critical view of the Russian government; they justify Russian policy in Ukraine and see the Ukrainian crisis as a battlefield between Russia and West, referring to the clash of civilisations with the West primarily the US and NATO, but also the European Union allegedly intending to advance its sphere of influence towards Russian borders.
It was devoted entirely to the proclamation of the so-called Caliphate. The work was done in consultation with social media experts and advisors from NATO member states in order to achieve the best result.
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A Roadmap explores the character, consequences, and challenges of fake news. The executive summary outlines the main conclusions of the study Internet Trolling as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare: The study was conducted by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs in cooperation with Riga Stradins University and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics University of Latvia 1 and was aimed at analysing organised pro-Russian trolling in internet media and measuring its influence on public opinion, using Latvia as a case study.
The research provides an opportunity to evaluate the risk potential of trolling, and offers recommendations on how to mitigate its effects when used as a tool in hybrid warfare. A multidisciplinary approach — including communication science, social anthropology, political science and information technology expertise — was applied in order to understand the trolling phenomenon, develop a method for its identification and evaluate its impact on public opinion.
Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. The findings consist of analysis of the questionnaire results filled in by 11 NATO nations and structured interviews with 6 NATO nations during the first half of The project developed a media analysis methodology based on strategic framing, a well-known function of media and strategic communication that attempts to influence the perception of facts and situations by encouraging certain interpretations and discouraging others using words, phrases, metaphors and images highlighting desired aspects of a perceived reality.
The goals were to demonstrate that framing is relevant to understanding and improving strategic communication capabilities of NATO member and partner countries, to do this in the context of a topic important to NATO, and to show the potential relevance of these methods to operational capabilities. Robotic activity is highly dynamic. The current reporting period August—October has been comparatively free of large-scale, politically motivated robotic interventions.
In contrast, the period March—July stands out as one in which content was heavily promoted online. Political actors use bot accounts in the social media space to manipulate public opinion about regional geopolitics. Bot-generated messages differ depending on the target audience. Messages targeted to the domestic audience rarely mentioned the Russian exercises.
The work was done in collaboration with experts and advisors from NATO member states in order to achieve the best result. It refers also to some more recent, important examples of the information campaign relating to events such as the MH17 air tragedy. The information campaign and related military action by Russia corresponds to the characteristics of a new form of warfare where the lines between peace and war, foreign military force and local self-defence groups are blurred and the main battle space has moved from physical ground to the hearts and minds of the populations in question. Volume 2 Brad Lancaster. Defence Strategic Communications Frequency: Shibboleth authentication is only available to registered institutions.
Our data suggest Twitter is less effective at removing automatically generated Russian content than it is for English material. Nonetheless, we have seen improvement in social media policing by the platform. Pressure should continue in order to ensure further improvements. Generational change in malicious activity on social media seems to be at hand.
Primitive bots indiscriminately promoting links to news sites are on the decline. They are being replaced by coordinated accounts that target conversations centred upon individual media outlets or members of different elites. In recent months on Twitter, the volume of automated content about NATO activity in the Baltics and Poland has declined at an increasingly rapid pace. The number of bottweets dropped by 15 percentage points for Russian and 20 percentage points for English.
We infer that this reduction is best explained by changes introduced by the platform. Our findings are verified by drawing on thirty times more data than for previous Robotrolling issues. For the first time we include messages from VKontakte as a control. We see a marked rise in organised trolling activity conducted by humans using fake accounts compared to early As social media companies intervene to clean up automation, they should take care that changes they introduce may enable new forms of manipulation.
Russian language bot activity is in decline in absolute terms, but Twitter in Russian remains more polluted than Twitter in English. The overall aim of the research is to identify means how Russia with the help of mass media influences the Euro-Atlantic values and re-defines the meaning of democracy, media freedom, human rights, trust to international organizations, freedom of speech and other values in the Euro-Atlantic space for different societal groups during the crisis in Ukraine.
The political rhetoric, political content and narrative is analysed in the following audio-visual platforms: The research includes four case studies: Their concern was that what separated truth from untruth had for too long been obscured—made ever less intelligible by certain people intent on distorting responsible debate, while others simply fail to do their research.
The term Fake News has become the default catchphrase for truth-seekers wishing to label inaccurate reporting, truth-obscurers spreading malevolent assertions, or the unprepared who simply want to close down uncomfortable discussion. Both organisations are committed to encouraging young talent and innovative thinking. We wish to thank for their advice and support: The aim of the project is to describe and reconstruct the information campaign carried out by Russia and pro-Russian activists in the internet and to reconstruct representations and frames of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict emerging from internet commentary sections and social media posts.
The effectiveness of influence on the internet were also analysed, particularly in mobilizing internet users to engage in communication. Shibboleth authentication is only available to registered institutions. Cookies help us deliver our services.
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