🚨🚨French diplomats are taking on #MAGA — one meme at a time: #Paris is rolling out a great confrontational online strategy to counter #disinformation from the #US and beyond. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
Glad to join Night of Ideas in London at @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social 🌙🇫🇷 Joining a great panel on the vital role of women countering threats in the information space 🦸♀️
Thanks to Nabeelah Shabbir @icfjorg.bsky.social for a discussion on collective responses & glad to share NATO’s contributions!
💡 Women at the forefront of the fight against disinformation are taking centre stage at the #nightofideas ✊📢
@marie-doha.bsky.social, Nabeelah Shabbir & @nataliaforesti.bsky.social talk about their unwavering commitment to upholding truth in the digital age 💻
Women Vs Info Threats Ep. 14 with Florence Gaub 🦸♀️ the director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College and her goal is to make sure that all her output always focuses on information that helps people better understand what’s going on around them.
Women Vs Info Threats Ep. 13 with Valeria Shashenok 🦸♀️ 🇺🇦 who was 20 when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. She had to live in a bunker for two weeks and that's when she started creating content covering the ongoing war.
At #Japan engaging with a great #NATO partner 🇯🇵
Women Vs Disinfo Ep. 12: Delphine Colard Acting Spokesperson of the European Parliament🦸♀️ Leading the team that deals with information threats in the European Parliament, she reminds that everyone can stop the spread of disinformation by critically engaging with the content online.
#WomenVsDisinfo Ep. 11 with Anayit Khoperiya 🦸♀️ the Deputy Head of the Centre of Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council.
She reminds us that even small actions make a huge difference when countering information threats.
#WomenVsDisinfo Ep. 10 with Oleksandra Matviichuk 🦸♀️ head of the Center for Civil Liberties.
As human rights defender working on issues in Ukraine 🇺🇦 and the OSCE region Oleksandra mentions the importance of exposing information threats.
“This is the war for hearts and minds of people”
The ban on Russian propaganda: circumventions, side effects, and impact on the 2024 EU elections
🗓️ 9 January, 14:30–15:30 CET
💡 Explore Russian influence operations with experts Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz from the University of Manchester
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#WomenVsDisinfo Ep. 9: Daryna Onyshko Youth Network Coordinator at Community of Democracies🦸♀️
With experience as President of European Democracy Youth Network, she emphasizes the importance of being part of networks that help verify information.
"Always check first!"
This week-end 2000 participants gathered at the International Stratcom Summit in Istanbul 🇹🇷 to discuss the impact of AI on Stratcom practices.
I was happy to share #NATO’s efforts to develop ever more tailored Strategic Communications: data-driven, audiences-based and seeking political effects.
Going on right now! Today and tomorrow: a fab opportunity to meet the best of the French OSINT scene, with passionate researchers who are exceptional at sharing the rigour and methodology at the basis of their work. Networking moments included, in a very cool digital arts museum. Highly recommend!✔️
The Czech Foreign Ministry announced that Russia was behind nearly a hundred hybrid attacks in Europe in 2024.
According to Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, there were about 500 suspicious incidents recorded in Europe in 2024, of which up to 100 hybrid attacks can be directly linked to Russia.
#WomenVsDisinfo #NATO Ep. 8 with Baiba Braze 🦸♀️Foreign Minister of Latvia 🇱🇻 just after she joined us for the Foreign Ministerial. She explains what it means for her to be a ”Fact Champion” -promoting accurate information & facts in her role. And why she thinks it’s a collective responsibility
Better late than never : Bringing our #NATO series on amazing women to Bluesky ! Researchers, leaders, journalists, creators, soldiers….let’s recognize the work they do to bring solutions & responses to information manipulations &threats.
Today is Episode 8 already, but I will bring 1-7 along soon!
NATO's Admiral Vandier urged Europe to reform its defense strategies by cutting bureaucracy, increasing spending, and embracing innovation in space, IT, and logistics. He stressed adopting riskier, faster approaches like the U.S., raising budgets to 3% of GDP, and addressing challenges from Russia.
Marking 1000 days of war @NATO HQ with young Ukrainian artists turned soldiers & very young veterans. War changing young lives. Check out Nazar Grabar’s foundation in memory of his brother Ilya Grabar, singer turned soldier and now posthumously supporting orphans through sports.
Standing ovation yesterday for 🇨🇦 Canadian Chief of the defence staff, once commander of #NATO Mission Iraq (2019-2020), as she made the case for women in combat units and paid tribute to them after 39 years of career as a combat arms officer herself. At #Halifax Security Forum #HFXForum
Not an exhaustive list, but we're all likely exhausted.
Thank you @brentlee for putting this together! Our NATO Women Vs Disinfo series just got a great extension here &that’s exactly what it was meant for: to shed light on the work of the many female researchers committed to exposing info threats +often being targeted for it -so they get better backing
I am dedicating my first post to Poutine. The one that’s nice to eat. #Montreal delicacies
