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Russian social media influence : understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe / Todd C. Helmus, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Andrew Radin, Madeline Magnuson, Joshua Mendelsohn, William Marcellino, Andriy Bega, Zev Winkelman.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2237.html Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helmus, Todd C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Propaganda, Russian.
- Social media--Political aspects.
- Social media.
- Europe, Eastern--Relations--Russia (Federation).
- Europe, Eastern.
- Russia (Federation)--Relations--Europe, Eastern.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Relations--Ukraine.
- Ukraine--Relations--Russia (Federation).
- Ukraine.
- Social media--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.
- Social media--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Propaganda, Russian--Europe.
- Europe.
- Eastern Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 130 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
- Approach
- CHAPTER TWO: Russian Propaganda on Social Media
- Context and Aims of Russian Propaganda
- Means of Employment
- Impact
- Russia's Social Media Operations in the Near Abroad
- Russia's Social Media Operations in the Far Abroad
- Trolls and Bots
- Summary and Implications
- CHAPTER THREE: Pro- and Anti-Russia Propaganda Communities on Twitter
- Findings
- CHAPTER FOUR: Resonance Analysis of Pro-Russia Activists
- Theoretical Foundation
- Findings: Resonance Across Time and Geography
- CHAPTER FIVE: Key Challenges to Responding to the Russian Information Threat
- CHAPTER SIX: Recommendations
- Highlight and "Block" Russian Propaganda
- Build the Resilience of At-Risk Populations
- Expand and Improve Local and Original Content
- Better Tell the US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and
- European Union Story
- Track Russian Media and Develop Analytic Methods
- APPENDIXES: A. Additional Technical Details
- B. Additional Community Lexical Characterization
- C. Pro-Russia Propaganda Lexical Analysis
- D. Interview Protocol.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
- "This research was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Rapid Reaction Technology Office and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute ..."--Preface (page iv).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130).
- Description based on electronic resource.
- Supersedes RAND/PR-3207-OSD.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780833099570
- 0833099574
- OCLC:
- 1043902291
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