(Mis)Translating Deceit (AHRC-funded project)

Прафесар Гатчынгс: «Вучэнні – сігнал Захаду, што Расея гатовая да вайны» 52 палітычныя вязні вызваленыя, але Лукашэнка выкарыстоўвае гэта як разменную манету. А ў гэты ж час Беларусь разам з Расеяй праводзяць вучэнні «Захад-2025», якія эксперты называюць правакацыяй і рыхт...

Stephen Hutchings has been quoted in the following articles for various international news outlets:

- Belsat: belsat.eu/89015792/ras...

- SVT: www.svt.se/kultur/ryska....

- Lupa: lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2... AND lupa.uol.com.br/jornalismo/2...

(Mis)Translating Deceit - (Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic (Mis)Translating Deceit - A 3-year AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project aiming to develop a new, holistic approach to a key global challenge  (runs from October 2023 to October 2026; total v...

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Newsletter #4 - (Mis)Translating Deceit June - August 2025

Our latest newsletter has just been published on our website! You can read it here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/newsletter/n...

Mauritania, a laboratory for the vulnerabilities of Sahelian information ecosystems - (Mis)Translating Deceit Nicolas Henin provides a vulnerability study on Mauritania's information ecosystem, and provides solutions on how it can strengthen these vulnerabilities.

🚨New blog post! @nicolashenin.net Nicolas Henin provides a vulnerability study on Mauritania's information ecosystem, and provides solutions on how it can strengthen these vulnerabilities. You can read it on our website here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

How Russia is trying to win over the world beyond the West - BBC News Over the past three years, Russian state-backed news channel RT has expanded its international presence.

The BBC has done a deep dive into current activities of Russia’s RT network, extensively citing research from me, @rhyscrilley.bsky.social @m-deceit.bsky.social et al in our new (free-to-download!) book.

@oupolitics.bsky.social

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Emotional Governance in Wartime Russia: Pacification, Fear and the Manipulation of Hope - (Mis)Translating Deceit Olga Vlasova's blog examines Russian propaganda, through the lens of emotional governance.

🚨New blog alert! Olga Vlasova, Visiting Researcher at King's College London, examines Russian propaganda, through the lens of emotional governance. You can read Olga's blog here - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Congratulations to one of our co-investigators @neilsadler.bsky.social on the publication of his new article in Communication Theory, "Suspicious stories: taking narrative seriously in disinformation research". You can read it via Open Access here - academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

Is Russia really ‘grooming’ Western AI? The panic is there, but the evidence is thin – at best.

Maxim Alyukov and Alexandr Voronovici contributed to an Al-Jazeera English Opinion piece on Russia's influence of Western AI. aje.io/lv4v9l

Maksim Markelov has provided comments on Russia's Global Fact-Checking Network for the RMIT Information Integrity Hub's newsletter, The Repost. You can read and subscribe to it here - mailchi.mp/rmit.edu.au/...

Why is tracking disinformation so difficult—and what can we do about it? - (Mis)Translating Deceit Emma Connolly explores why tracking mis and disnformation is challenging as it moves across platforms, and why it is vital its circulation is mitigated.

🚨New blog post! Emma Connolly (Research Fellow at UCL's Digital Speech Lab) explores why tracking mis and disnformation is challenging as it moves across platforms, and why it is vital its circulation is mitigated. You can read her blog on our website - www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Congratulations to @sabinamihelj.bsky.social and @vstetka.bsky.social for winning this prestigious award!

8)Article has significant implications for how we understand disinformation, and how it is best combatted

7)Disinformation lifecycle can be viewed both as a sequence of developments from birth to death and rebirth, and as an atemporal system of interactions between factors endogenous within, and exogenous to, disinformation

6)Model allows us to show how disinformation claims do not travel as fixed objects but are discursively renegotiated as they journey, acquiring new, layered meanings at every point in the cycle

5) The lifecycle process follows a logic that is both simultaneous (the dialogue with counter-disinformation applies at all points) and linear (from allegation, to rebuttal, to counter-allegation)

4)Analysis of how COVID claims are authenticated across media genres; how they modulate to reflect shifting scientific consensus; how they are adapted for different linguistic audiences; hyperlink analysis detailing Russian/non-Russian collusion; their de-authentication by CDUs

3)We applied to this material a combination of qualitative close-reading methods and computer-driven network analysis tools in five replicable analytical steps visualised in diagrammatic form. Steps include …

2)Developed from multilingual Russian state COVID material identified by the EU’s CDU, this holistic model represents disinformation as a lifecycle wherein truth claims cross borders, moving in and out of counter-disinformation’s discursive sphere, gaining or losing credibility

1)Offers a new theorisation of disinformation accounting for how it is adapted across historical, linguistic and cultural contexts in line with its changing status as accusatory practice, and its dialogic interaction with counter-disinformation unit (CDU) practices

Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit Abstract. This article offers a new conceptual model of disinformation which accounts for the performative status of disinformation accusations, and the di

You can access the article via the link here - academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

🚨New article written by Vera Tolz, @stevhutch.bsky.social, @vitalykaz.bsky.social, and Sofia Tipaldou, published in @icahdq.bsky.social - "Disinformation as Process: Modelling the Lifecycle of Disinformation". @uomsalc.bsky.social @sabinamihelj.bsky.social @neilsadler.bsky.social

8) Article has significant implications for how we understand disinformation, and how it is best combatted

7) Disinformation lifecycle can be viewed both as a sequence of developments from birth to death and rebirth, and as an atemporal system of interactions between factors endogenous within, and exogenous to, disinformation

6) Model allows us to show how disinformation claims do not travel as fixed objects but are discursively renegotiated as they journey, acquiring new, layered meanings at every point in the cycle

5) The lifecycle process follows a logic that is both simultaneous (the dialogue with counter-disinformation applies at all points) and linear (from allegation, to rebuttal, to counter-allegation)

4) Analysis of how COVID claims are authenticated across media genres; how they modulate to reflect shifting scientific consensus; how they are adapted for different linguistic audiences; hyperlink analysis detailing Russian/non-Russian collusion; their de-authentication by CDUs

3) We applied to this material a combination of qualitative close-reading methods and computer-driven network analysis tools in five replicable analytical steps visualised in diagrammatic form. Steps include …

2) Developed from multilingual Russian state COVID material identified by the EU’s CDU, this holistic model represents disinformation as a lifecycle wherein truth claims cross borders, moving in and out of counter-disinformation’s discursive sphere, gaining or losing credibility

1) Offers a new theorisation of disinformation accounting for how it is adapted across historical, linguistic and cultural contexts in line with its changing status as accusatory practice, and its dialogic interaction with counter-disinformation unit (CDU) practices

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