In our new article in Media, War & Conflict, @jkling288.bsky.social and I show that foreign engagement with Russian domestic news on Facebook after the full-scale invasion extended far beyond “compatriots” and also followed historical, ideological, and geopolitical patterns: doi.org/10.1177/1750...

In our new article in Media, War & Conflict, @jkling288.bsky.social and I show that foreign engagement with Russian domestic news on Facebook after the full-scale invasion extended far beyond “compatriots” and also followed historical, ideological, and geopolitical patterns: doi.org/10.1177/1750...

Co-authored with @florian-toepfl.bsky.social, our new Europe-Asia Studies article is out in open access. Using 350 self-published CVs (2013-2021) from Prigozhin’s IRA “troll farm”, we map staffing, task divisions, a five-level hierarchy, 2014 recruitment surge. doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Co-authored with @florian-toepfl.bsky.social, our new Europe-Asia Studies article is out in open access. Using 350 self-published CVs (2013-2021) from Prigozhin’s IRA “troll farm”, we map staffing, task divisions, a five-level hierarchy, 2014 recruitment surge. doi.org/10.1080/0966...

🚨Last chance to register! Want to know who's steering Russia's online information control machine? 👉Meet ANO Dialog, the Kremlin's digital command centre. Join our deep dive with @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social (U. of Amsterdam). 📅20 Nov | ⏰14:30 CET 🔗Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Who's driving Russia's online info control? 👉ANO Dialog, the Kremlin's digital command centre. 🎙Join @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social (U. of Amsterdam) for a deep dive into how it represents a new model of state-controlled disinformation 📅20 Nov, 14:30 CET 🔗Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Neuer Blogpost: Russische Desinformationsakteure ahmen zunehmend die Sprache und Formate von Faktenchecker:innen und Medienkompetenz-Programmen nach. Besonders aktiv in diesem Bereich ist ANO Dialog, eine staatsnahe Organisation, die auf Sanktionslisten in der EU, Großbritannien und den USA steht:

My new article, “ANO Dialog: Innovation in Controlling Russia’s Digital Information”, is out in Post-Soviet Affairs in Open Access. With @florian-toepfl.bsky.social & @jkling288.bsky.social, we extend our OSINT CV analysis method of Prigozhin’s troll factory to a new case doi.org/10.1080/1060... 1/3

Please share: 🧪#PolComm To learn more about the group's research on Russia's informational influence abroad, visit their website: www.rusinform.uni-passau.de/en/ #RUSINFORM

A new paper of ours on one of the successor organizations of Russsia's infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA) has been published: Congratulations to my (former) doctoral students and co-authors @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social and @jkling288.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[New paper] Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news, By @jkling288.bsky.social, University of Passau, and @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam. policyreview.info/articles/ana... #Russia #Ukraine #EU #Facebook #Misinformation

Two papers being published the same day, what a coincidence! This study was published at Internet Policy Review. Together with @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social, we investigated the consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Russia’s Russian-language news ecosystem on Facebook.

My new article, “ANO Dialog: Innovation in Controlling Russia’s Digital Information”, is out in Post-Soviet Affairs in Open Access. With @florian-toepfl.bsky.social & @jkling288.bsky.social, we extend our OSINT CV analysis method of Prigozhin’s troll factory to a new case doi.org/10.1080/1060... 1/3

I am officially a Doctor of Social Science! 3.5 years and 5 articles, from Prigozhin's troll factory to ANO Dialog. All written under the careful supervision of @florian-toepfl.bsky.social . Special thanks also go to @jkling288.bsky.social and @kevinlimonier.bsky.social Stay tuned for new articles!

My first academic paper is out (open access). It's a study of the organisation of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group, based on a dataset of 818 CVs of its employees downloaded shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. doi.org/10.1080/1075... The main findings are in the thread below.

Full room for a panel on decolonizing digitally and the new ways - including Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) - towards the uncovering of academic and industrial production of disinformation about the RUTA region(s) with returning @sanshiro.bsky.social, Anselm Schmidt & @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social 💥

Although he looks a bit unrecognizable after five years in prison, Tsikhanouski is free: nashaniva.com/370751

I'm happy to announce that today I have joined the @uva.nl as a postdoctoral researcher. My work at the Department of Media Studies as part of the SoMe4Dem (Social Media for Democracy) project will continue my investigation into the russian disinformation production industry using OSINT.

People ask about my research on Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group: what happened to the PMG after the mutiny? Here's a detailed answer: new data on the CVs of former PMG employees (Oct 2024), the PMG's role in the mutiny, and how ANO Dialog won the competition against Prigozhin doi.org/10.31205/RA....

What happens when a state-aligned propaganda media network takes part in a mutiny - that fails? A very interesting description of how the infamous Russian IRA was liquidated!

Fascinating new research reveals what became of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group following its leadership’s failed mutiny against Putin.

People ask about my research on Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group: what happened to the PMG after the mutiny? Here's a detailed answer: new data on the CVs of former PMG employees (Oct 2024), the PMG's role in the mutiny, and how ANO Dialog won the competition against Prigozhin doi.org/10.31205/RA....

Stolz auf meine erste deutschsprachige Publikation (aus dem Englischen übersetzt) für Russland-Analysen: Prigozhins Medienimperium nach der Meuterei - Insiderinformationen aus CVs ehemaliger Mitarbeiter, die Rolle der Medien und Prigozhins Verlust der Konkurrenz an ANO Dialog doi.org/10.31205/RA....

Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!

Calling researchers from #Ukraine: Would you like to become part of the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS (#UNET)? Fellowship applications for 2025/2026 are open! Find the details here: www.zois-berlin.de/ueber-uns/st...

📣 We have a fully funded #PhD place available at the Communication & Media Department @lborocrcc.bsky.social at Loughborough University, in collaboration with BBC Media Action and supported by the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP.

Inauthentic news-pravda websites from Russian Portal Kombat network are now creating accounts on Bluesky. I created a moderation list, it would be nice to help me to share it. Please do not hesitate to send me new accounts. Ping @moderation.bsky.app bsky.app/profile/did:...

Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

Professor @florian-toepfl.bsky.social heads the #ERC Consolidator Research Group #RUSINFORM, which has been researching the influence of Russian propaganda on public opinion abroad for five years. Here, he talks about the findings and the massive repression faced by researchers in his field. 🧵🧪(1/8)

Great research and digital fieldwork by @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social, who analyzes the organisation and practices of Prigozhin's Patriot media holding, based on a large corpus of former employees' CVs collected on Russian job platforms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, the deadline for this job announcements has expired. Please feel free to apply up until the end of this week, as we will start reviewing the candidates these days!

Serge Poliakoff examined the 818 curricula vitae (CVs) of the Patriot Media (Prigozhin media arm) former employees. With its links to the Internet Research Agency it blurred the lines between a “troll farm” and a media outlet www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My first academic paper is out (open access). It's a study of the organisation of Prigozhin's Patriot Media Group, based on a dataset of 818 CVs of its employees downloaded shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. doi.org/10.1080/1075... The main findings are in the thread below.

Allowing tech companies to collect your data is like the Hotel California. You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave…

Register on the link to join me in Brussels at this conference, where I will be speaking on a method for analysing russian disinformation/propaganda organisations without physical access to the field.

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This account @apolyakova1.bsky.social is trying to impersonate our CEO. However, they forgot to block us... Please report and block this account.

Spotted today in Vienna

And there it is: Assad in Moscow. Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Excited to advertise a new (post-)doctoral position in my team at Uni Passau in a new @bidt.bsky.social-funded project on "Authoritarian AI: How LLMs Align with Russia's Propaganda". Looking forward to all types of applications! shorturl.at/vc43x

Hi 🦋! Short intro: I am a researcher and PhD student at the RUSINFORM research group at the University of Passau (🇩🇪). I study russia's #propaganda and #disinformation, in particular how russia's "troll farms" (such as Prigozhin's Internet Research Agency) are organised. #commSky #poliSky #polcom

South Korea has just declared martial law edition.cnn.com/2024/12/03/a...

I am happy to share this article by @florian-toepfl.bsky.social , Pascal Jürgens and me recently published at @icsjournal.bsky.social

The SAFE project accepts applications for 60 fellowships for at-risk non-EU researchers (PhD/postdoc) to join research institutions in the EU. 🌍 Matchmaking support until 15 December 📅 Deadline: 20 Jan 2025 🔗 Learn more: saferesearchers.eu #ResearchOpportunities #AtRiskResearchers #SAFEFellowship

Our Department of Communication @univie.ac.at is seeking a new colleague to join us in beautiful Vienna! 🎓Tenure-track Professorship of Media & Communication History 🔗Job announcement: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... 📆Application deadline: January 10, 2025 Please share! #commsky #mediahistory

Dear academic colleagues, please join us and sign the open letter in solidarity with Georgian academics and students! ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

Any recommendations on which AI/LLM to use to analyze Russian text data to gain insights into specific topics? Also looking for relevant research papers. #commsky #polcomm #csssky #polisky #academicsky

Welcoming @sergepoliakoff.bsky.social , because I talked him into joining 🦋

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