Project Blog

Yik Ching C. explores how the concept of “disinformation” changes as it travels across languages and cultures, showing how Chinese public discourse reinterprets political deception through local linguistic, cultural and historical frameworks rather than simply translating the English term.

Ray Morgan has written an insightful piece on Iran’s meme campaign, showing how AI-generated satire and “troll diplomacy” expose the conceptual limits of existing disinformation frameworks and challenge how we distinguish propaganda from public diplomacy.

Nicolas Hénin has written a fantastic piece on how social media can better serve democracy by examining four key principles.

Ray Morgan has written an excellent piece on how the Rubio cable exposes the politics of defining disinformation, questioning who gets to label information operations as "disinformation" and who remains exempt from scrutiny.

Olga K. Nanova has written a fascinating piece on how Bulgaria's Share4Pay platform monetised and amplified disinformation through a network of fake news websites.

Hannah Gorlizki and Vera Tolz have written an insightful piece on how Soviet wartime propaganda deployed visual and textual strategies to undermine trust in Nazi mass communication.

Nicolas Hénin explores the rise of the zero-click internet, and its implications on an increasingly changing online information ecosystem.

Precious Chatterje-Doody and Maxime Audinet write for The Conversation on RT India and its role in the Kremlin's international outreach efforts.

Gosia Koroluk writes about the Polish media coverage of the 2025 Moldovan elections.

Nicolas Hénin provides a vulnerability study on Mauritania's information ecosystem, and provides solutions on how it can strengthen these vulnerabilities.

Olga Vlasova's blog examines Russian propaganda, through the lens of emotional governance.

Emma Connolly explores why tracking mis and disnformation is challenging as it moves across platforms, and why it is vital its circulation is mitigated.