9 January: The ban on Russian propaganda: circumventions, side effects, and impact on the 2024 EU elections This session examines the extent and nature of Russian online influence operations surrounding the 2024 EU elections.

Big thanks to Vera Tolz, @stevhutch.bsky.social, and everybody who joined yesterday's webinar! 🙏

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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

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🚨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

OHPA Climate Disinformation Workshop

On Friday, March 7th @stevhutch.bsky.social will be in Vienna speaking at @weareceu.bsky.social. Titled Climate Disinformation: European and Global Perspectives, and ran by OHPA it will be a hybrid session. You can reigster here - events.ceu.edu/2025-03-07/o...

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In this edition, #democracy’s fragility is on full display – the need for institutions, civil society, and the press to speak up and #defend democratic values is urgent.

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Visual Disinformation and HIV-AIDS in the 1980s: The Cases of the Soviet Union and the Two Germanies - (Mis)Translating Deceit Maria Zhukova argues that the case study of disinformation around HIV-AIDS in the Soviet Union and the two Germanies in the 1980s offers integral analysis to how we visualise and analyse disinformati...

🚨New blog post! Check out Maria Zhukova's blog, titled "Visual Disinformation and HIV-AIDS in the 1980s: The Cases of the Soviet Union and the Two Germanies"

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Thoughtful analysis. I think that a related factor behind Russian reluctance to talk about the war is an attitude of 'let the leaders decide, who are we to know what they know?' It's the outcome of a successful process of depoliticization.

And many thanks to @disinfo.eu for facilitating it, and to their audience for great questions!

🤦‍♀️ Oops, our apologies for the mix-up! The correct handle is @stevhutch.bsky.social.

Very much look forward to what will undoubtedly be a thoughtful and insightful response!

Check out this new report on the role of #Russian proxy websites during the recent #EU #elections - written by colleagues on my new #AHRC funded project on #disinformation, (Mis)Translating Deceit @m-deceit.bsky.social.

Title of the report: "Kremlin Proxies and the Post-RT Western Media Landscape: An EU Elections Case Study"

Authors of the report: @stevhutch.bsky.social, Alexandr Voronovici, Vera Tolz, @neilsadler.bsky.social, Max Alyukov, and Sofia Tipaldou

Some highlights of the report in the thread

New Analytical Report by Our Team - (Mis)Translating Deceit In this report, we assess the extent, purpose, and impact of online Russia-sponsored news proxies in the context of the EU2024 elections.

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Elections at: www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

The Odesa Fire 2014. Part 1: The black legend beyond Russian state propaganda - (Mis)Translating Deceit In Part One of this blog, Aleksei Titkov interrogates the propogandistic afterlives of the 2014 Odesa Fire, and the different tendencies Russian grassroots audiences use to respond to its invocations.

🚨New blog post! Check out Part One of Alexei Titkov's blog series on the 2014 Odesa Fire.
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