Research Catalog

Title

Russian social media influence : understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe / Todd C. Helmus [and 7 others].

Author

Helmus, Todd C.

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• International Security and Defense Policy Center.
• Rand Corporation, publisher.
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsor.

Description

xviii, 130 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

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."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-2237-OSD

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-2237-OSD.

Alternative Title

Understanding Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe

Subject

• Information warfare > Russia (Federation)
• Social media > Russia (Federation)
• Propaganda, Russian > Former Soviet republics
• Propaganda, Russian > Ukraine
• Information warfare
• Propaganda, Russian
• Social media
• Russia (Federation)
• Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
• Ukraine

Note

• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130).

Additional Formats (note)

• Available online December 10, 2018

Contents

Introduction -- Russian Propaganda on Social Media -- Pro- and Anti-Russia Propaganda Communities on Twitter -- Resonance Analysis of Pro-Russia Activists -- Key Challenges to Responding to the Russian Information Threat -- Recommendations

ISBN

• 0833099574
• 9780833099570

LCCN

2018303425

OCLC

• on1031950174
• 1031950174
• SCSB-9326591

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library