Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
RAND | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 0833099574 | 148 pages | PDF | 2.37 MB
RAND | English | 2018 | ISBN-10: 0833099574 | 148 pages | PDF | 2.37 MB
by Todd C. Helmus (Author), Elizabeth Bodine-Baron (Author), Andrew Radin (Author), Madeline Magnuson (Author), Joshua Mendelsohn (Author), William Marcellino (Author), Andriy Bega (Author), Zev Winkelman (Author)
Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign against former Soviet states that includes news tweets, nonattributed comments on web pages, troll and bot social media accounts, and fake hashtag and Twitter campaigns. Nowhere is this threat more tangible than in Ukraine. Researchers analyzed social media data and conducted interviews with regional and security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering this campaign