Book/Printed Material Russian social media influence : understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe Understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe

Title

• Russian social media influence : understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe

Other Title

• Understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe

Summary

• "A RAND Corporation study examined Russian-language content on social media and the broader propaganda threat posed to the region of former Soviet states that include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and, to a lesser extent, Moldova and Belarus. In addition to employing a state-funded multilingual television network, operating various Kremlin-supporting news websites, and working through several constellations of Russia-backed "civil society" organizations, Russia employs a sophisticated social media campaign 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, which has been an active propaganda battleground since the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Other countries in the region look at Russia's actions and annexation of Crimea and recognize the need to pay careful attention to Russia's propaganda campaign. To conduct this study, RAND researchers employed a mixed-methods approach that used careful quantitative analysis of social media data to understand the scope of Russian social media campaigns combined with interviews with regional experts and U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization security experts to understand the critical ingredients to countering this campaign."--Publisher's description.

Names

• Helmus, Todd C., author
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsor
• International Security and Defense Policy Center
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation, publisher
• Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2018]
• ©2018

Contents

• Introduction -- Russian Propaganda on Social Media -- Pro- and Anti-Russia Propaganda Communities on Twitter -- Resonance Analysis of Pro-Russia Activists -- Key Challenges to Responding to the Russian Information Threat -- Recommendations

Headings

• -  Information warfare--Russia (Federation)
• -  Propaganda, Russian--Former Soviet republics
• -  Propaganda, Russian--Ukraine
• -  Social media--Russia (Federation)

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xviii, 130 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• DK510.764

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739006

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739006

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739006

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