Slopaganda and Troll Diplomacy: Iran’s Meme Campaign and the Limits of the Disinformation Framework

(Mis)Translating Deceit - A 3-year AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project aiming to develop a new, holistic approach to a key global challenge  (...

From Moscow to Cologne and across the Atlantic: Newspaper science and the global origins of Soviet mass communication

How can social media enhance democracy?

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

Cash-for-Disinformation in Bulgaria: The Share4Pay Case - (Mis)Translating Deceit

The Russian despot is eager to portray himself as an invincible strongman.

This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences. It offers the first book-length critical analysis of the non-line...

“It’s Not That Simple, We Don’t Know the Whole Truth”: The Effects of Pseudo Fact Checking in Wartime Russia

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

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

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

Some of today’s most popular large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots occasionally reference Kremlin-linked disinformation websites, but it might not be for the reasons many fear. While some recent...

52 палітычныя вязні вызваленыя, але Лукашэнка выкарыстоўвае гэта як разменную манету. А ў гэты ж час Беларусь разам з Расеяй праводзяць вучэнні «Захад-2025», якія эксперты называюць правакацыяй і рыхт...

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

Over the past three years, Russian state-backed news channel RT has expanded its international presence.

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

The panic is there, but the evidence is thin – at best.

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

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.

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

Explore how trusted sources like BBC News boost false news credibility and what it means for the future of communication.

In this report, we assess the extent, purpose, and impact of online Russia-sponsored news proxies in the context of the EU2024 elections. Focusing on the recent

Maria Zhukova argues that the case study of disinformation around HIV-AIDS in the Soviet Union and the two Germanies in the 1980s offers integral analysis to how we visualise and analyse disinformati...

In the final part of his blog, Alexei Titkov builds upon his interrogation of studying Russian audiences' reactions to the 2014 Odesa Fire by using different media representations to challenge how sha...

In Part One of this blog, Aleksei Titkov interrogates the propogandistic afterlives of the 2014 Odesa Fire, and the different tendencies Russian grassroots audiences use to respond to its invocations.