NATO StratCom COE

📢 Save the date: Digital Frontlines 2025
🗓 8 Oct 2025 | 📍 Riga, Latvia
This year's agenda:
🧠 AI & human judgment
📱 Future of social media
🎮 Gaming space vulnerabilities
🕵️‍♂️ Closed info environments & more

📝 Registration opens soon, stay tuned!

🔍 How should governments use intelligence in an age of hybrid threats & info warfare?
Our latest research report shows intel isn’t just secret—it’s strategic. From deterrence to credibility, disclosure shapes the narrative.
🧠 Read more 👉 shorturl.at/rOvWE

Our Virtual Manipulation Brief 2025 shows how AI, platform shifts & strategic messaging are reshaping the info war. Russia strikes fast ⚡️, China moves slow & strategic 🧠. AI scales it all. X, Telegram & YouTube are now the front lines. Read more here: shorturl.at/f1PN1

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📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025 is less than two weeks away!
🗓️ 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
This year’s conference dives into the shifting tides of identity, influence, and information in a world where geopolitics, truth, and power are constantly being redefined. 🌍💬
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Understanding identity’s cognitive roots is key to addressing conflict. What variables shape it?

Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.”
📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org

Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10 - 11 June 2025
📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org

For the 3rd year, #RigaStratComDialogue hosts the 🚀 Company Marketplace—where top innovators showcase tech 💡 to a global 🌍 strategic comms & defense audience.
Meet the 2025 lineup:

Today, we were honored to welcome Mr. Mihai Popsoi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova to discuss current issues in the information environment and common efforts in strengthening Europe's resilience against disinformation and foreign interference.

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In a time of contested truth & rising AI influence, Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025 is your front-row seat to the global conversation on #StratCom.
Global expert insights, deep dives on AI & info warfare, elite networking and more!
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org
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1 month to go until Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025!
🗓️ 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
In a world of shifting power, identity & influence—how do we communicate strategically and will AI recalibrate the global info order?
Get ready for a powerful discussions!
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), in effect since Feb 2024, aims to regulate online platforms. Our latest study shows Facebook's enforcement remains weak post-DSA, with rising hate speech and poor moderation—especially in smaller language communities.
🔎https://shorturl.at/RuJgP

🎙️ Media accreditation is OPEN for Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025!
📍 Riga, Latvia | 📅 10–11 June 2025
Join Europe’s top StratCom event with access to:
✅ Expert sessions
✅ Speaker interviews
✅ Elite networking
Apply now: lnkd.in/daQqVsrk
More info: rigastratcomdialogue.org

Today, our Chief of Staff Col. Dariusz Niedzielski welcomed H.E. Mr. Paul Ballantyne, the Non-Resident Ambassador of New Zealand 🇳🇿 to the Republic of Latvia 🇱🇻 to discuss current issues in global security and cooperation in the field of #StratCom. 🤝

During the latest #StratComPodcast episode, Latvian journalist Ina Strazdiņa from the Latvian Television (@LatvijasTV) shares her thoughts on journalists' mission and the cognitive effects of prolonged war.
🎧: shorturl.at/roaM6
🎥: shorturl.at/m70ym

📢 New #StratComPodcast episode is out!
🇱🇻 journalist Ina Strazdiņa shares what it’s like reporting from 🇺🇦 frontlines - where at least 17 journalists have been killed since 2022. A powerful story of truth, trauma & resilience.
🎧: shorturl.at/roaM6
🎥: shorturl.at/e40EE

🎙️ Media registration is OPEN!
Join Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025 — Europe’s top #StratCom conference — on 10–11 June in Riga! 🇱🇻
Get access to:
✅ Expert sessions
✅ Interviews with global leaders
✅ Exclusive networking
📌 Register: rigastratcomdialogue.org/media

In our latest research, we unpack the tech and organizational hurdles that still block smooth data-sharing across NATO—and offer practical steps to boost intelligence flow and sharper decision-making for StratCom and leadership.
🔍📊 Read more: shorturl.at/mpyxm

🧠⚠️ As AI grows more powerful, how might malign actors exploit it in the next decade—and are we doing enough now to prevent that future?
Listen to the latest #StratComPodcast episode to find out more:
🎧 shorturl.at/KqIi2
🎥 shorturl.at/ORqXQ

How are malign actors weaponizing AI?
Roberta Duffield from BLACKBIRD.AI joins #StratComPodcast to unpack the future of information warfare, perception manipulation & strategic threats we can’t afford to ignore.
🎧 shorturl.at/KqIi2
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Strengthening our collective commitment to protecting Europe’s information space and digital infrastructure! 🤝 Today, we were pleased to welcome Ms Kristina Herbst, President of the State Parliament Schleswig-Holstein and accompanying delegation for an insightful discussion.

📊 Effective data integration is essential for NATO’s #StratCom, yet fragmented systems impede progress. Our latest study underscores the need for NATO-wide metadata/API standards, robust governance, and AI-driven solutions to enhance interoperability.
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Another day, another important meeting! 🤝 Today, we were happy to welcome Mr Gilles Roth, Minister of Finance of Luxembourg to discuss the importance of strategic communications in the context of the security environment of today.

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📅 Save the date for the Europe's largest conference and company marketplace on strategic communications - #RigaStratComDialogue is set to take place from 10 to 11 June 2025 in Riga Latvia!
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We recently studied 5 Global South countries - Egypt, Mali, Kenya, South Africa, United Arab Emirates - to understand how Kremlin carries out information operations in this region to support its narratives globally.
Explore findings here: shorturl.at/ZKEJF

Liudmyla Dolhonovska, former #StratCom Advisor to Gen. Zaluzhnyi, delves into the essence of #StratCom, offering her insights on what lies at its core and how to cultivate societal trust during times of war.
Full podcast episode:
🎧https://shorturl.at/x2oIQ
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In the latest #StratComPodcast episode, Liudmyla Dolhonovska, former #StratCom advisor to Gen. Zaluzhnyi, shares valuable lessons from her tenure and reveals how transparent, timely information built public trust in 🇺🇦 military.
🎧https://shorturl.at/x2oIQ
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What is Russian proxy media? How does it fit into the Russian propaganda machinery and what goals Kremlin is aiming to achieve by the use of proxy media in Ukraine?
Read our recent research to find out more: shorturl.at/EMLV6

While Russia and China shape discourse to advance their interests for Arctic, enhancing information sharing and coordinating Arctic homeland defense efforts will enable NATO to manage regional security and uphold collective defense principles.
Read more: shorturl.at/wg1x7

In the latest #StratComPodcast episode former Estonian Internal Security Service Chief Arnold Sinisalu discusses tactics Russia is using to gain influence and try to control narrative in neighboring countries.
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We tested audiences in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia for trust and affective responses to two common types of Kremlin narratives in Nordic-Baltic audiences, providing a nuanced analysis of possible motivations underlying responses to these narratives.
Read more here: shorturl.at/H5Iy3

Estonia's proximity to Russia necessitate robust counter-intelligence efforts. In this #StratComPodcast episode, former Estonian Internal Security Chief Arnold Sinisalu discusses combating espionage and influence operations.
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