Christiern Santos Okholm

And it was a pleasure to be under the scalp!

Trump Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combatting foreign election interference threats --> www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Nice to know. I was a little bit worried when I left and Trump was running again.

Back from Paternity leave! What did I miss?

Beslutningen vil også udfordre Eu kommissionen og øvrige Europæiske beslutningstageres forsøg på at moderere digitale platforme og det bliver især spændende at se om DSA'en kan gøre noget for at sanktionere Meta.

Beslutningen kommer både til at gøre det nemmere for ondsindede aktører at bedrive påvirkningskampagner i Europa (hvor der vil være en række vigtige valg eks. i Tyskland) og have ret vidtgående konsekvenser for faktatjekker-branchen som er afhængig af Meta for både funding og adgang til platformen

Ser man på effekterne af Musk's nedlægning af X's moderationsteam, så har flere studier fundet et markant optik af misinfo og hatespeech og at community notes ofte er sløvere og mere upræcis et redskab end faktatjek.

Et kort pip fra barselsboblen - Jeg var her til morgen inde hos Radio4 for at snakke lidt om Zuckerbergs beslutning om at fjerne faktatjek på Meta produkter. Det er en ret bedrøvelig beslutning, som vælger at ignorere store problemer FB og Instagram.

Romania hit by major election influence campaign and Russian cyber-attacks Romania's intelligence service reveals details of what it says is an attempt from abroad to meddle in the country's presidential election.

A lot of interesting things here 1) what will the violation of transparency mean for tiktoks role in broader europe 2) how does the national authorities respons fit previous case of us election 2016 www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a teacher it’s been both heartwarming and inspiring to see students taking in the course, challenge key assumptions, mastering concepts and apply them to real world cases - for that i am grateful.

Last examination of my Info War course at the Uni of Southern Denmark. Two intense days of great presentations and discussions from the students of the MICS program.

Leaked: Russian academia and firms building Putin's drone army Leaked files shed light on how private-sector Russian drone firms, Russian academia, and Chinese components are helping to create Putin's fearsome drone air-force.

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After strava western militaries should have been aware of this amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/j...

While a fourth is on its way, I will leave you with this. As these three papers rely on different literatures and approaches to the study of Russian information warfare, I believe we need to see this challenge from multiple angles and not just one.

Debunking and exposing misinformation among fringe communities: Testing source exposure and debunking anti-Ukrainian misinformation among German fringe communities | HKS Misinformation Review Through an online field experiment, we test traditional and novel counter-misinformation strategies among fringe communities. Though generally effective, traditional strategies have not been tested in...

The third paper is an online field experiment, where I teamed up with VoxCheck to test if debunking or source exposure would lead to fringe audiences to stop consuming outlets spreading Russian disinformation.
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Blocking the information war? Testing the effectiveness of the EU’s censorship of Russian state propaganda among the fringe communities of Western Europe A mixed method study of the EU geo-block's effectiveness in limiting sharing of Russian propaganda media and content in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The second paper has moved into “what to do about it” and focuses on the effect of the EU’s geoblock of Russian propaganda outlets and their reach among fringe audiences, i.e. people feeling disenfranchised and consuming a lot of misinformation. policyreview.info/articles/ana...

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The first paper concerns how Sputnik relied on various adaptation strategies to tailor its reporting of Nord Stream 2 to Polish, German and English reading audiences. It focuses on how strategic narratives are forced to interact with its audiences world view. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YE2CX...

In general my main focus has been on the functioning of Russian Propaganda among fringe audiences and what to do about it- mixing international relations, political communication and computational sociology.

Seeing as there has been quite the increase in followers, I thought I’d make a short thread to introduce some of my published work. While some of you are old acquaintances from “the other place”, some of this may have gone you by.

It’s taken almost 3 years to make this decision, and hundreds of thousands more dead, and Russia terrorising civilians on a daily basis. It’s the right choice, so needs to be applauded, but oh so late.

Great. Thanks!

Would love to be added!