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How can social media enhance democracy?

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

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Who Gets to Name the Lie? The Rubio Cable and the Politics of Disinformation’s Definition

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.

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Cash-for-Disinformation in Bulgaria: The Share4Pay Case

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.

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Propaganda against Propaganda: How the Soviets Used Image and Word against Nazi Mass Communication

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.

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How will the zero-click internet impact the informational ecosystem?

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

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RT India: how the Kremlin is spreading its ‘west v the rest’ narrative to a global audience

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

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When Poland Speaks with One Voice: Media Unity on Moldova’s Elections and Russian Threats

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

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Mauritania, a laboratory for the vulnerabilities of Sahelian information ecosystems

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

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Emotional Governance in Wartime Russia: Pacification, Fear and the Manipulation of Hope

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

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Why is tracking disinformation so difficult—and what can we do about it?

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

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Mistranslated Reality: How Differing Realities Divide Russia’s Opposition

Alex Chumakov's blog explores how divisions shape the wider Russian opposition by examining the narratives of those who remain in the country and those in exile.

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Where Does the Past End and the Present Begin? The Temporalities of Propaganda in the Russian War on Ukraine

Daria Khlevniuk, GN, Boris Noordenbos write about how Russian propaganda invokes the past to reshape perceptions of the present.

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