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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7249/RR2237
来源IDRR-2237-OSD
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
发表日期2018-04-12
出版年2018
语种英语
结论

Russia's goals in its near abroad differ from those for farther-flung states

  • In the Baltics, Ukraine, and other nearby states, the Kremlin aims to drive wedges between ethnic Russian or Russian-speaking populations and their host governments, NATO, and the European Union
  • Farther abroad, the Kremlin attempts to achieve policy paralysis by sowing confusion, stoking fears, and eroding trust in Western and democratic institutions.

Specific communities spread and discuss propaganda

  • RAND identified a Russian activist community on Twitter that consists of approximately 41,000 users who both consume and disseminate anti-Ukraine, pro-Russia propaganda.
  • An opposing Ukrainian activist Twitter community also exists and consists of nearly 39,000 users spreading pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia content.

Broader challenges affect counterpropaganda efforts in the region

  • The high presence of Russian-language populations in the region who descend from Soviet-era migrants and whose host countries have refused them citizenship gives Russia a sympathetic audience.
  • Government policies prioritizing national languages have limited government outreach via the Russian language.
  • Russian broadcast media dominate in the region. Ukraine, however, has censored Russian government broadcasting and a popular Russian social media platform.
  • Social media activists, websites, news sources, and others actively disseminate their own pro-Russia propaganda content without obvious direct support from the Russian state.
  • The panoply of European Union, U.S., and North Atlantic Treaty Organization actors engaged in counterpropaganda efforts challenges coordination and synchronization.
  • Heavy-handed anti-Russia messaging could backfire in the region, given local skepticism of Western propaganda.
摘要

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.

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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.

目录
  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Russian Propaganda on Social Media

  • Chapter Three

    Pro- and Anti-Russia Propaganda Communities on Twitter

  • Chapter Four

    Resonance Analysis of Pro-Russia Activists

  • Chapter Five

    Key Challenges to Responding to the Russian Information Threat

  • Chapter Six

    Recommendations

  • Appendix A

    Additional Technical Details

  • Appendix B

    Additional Community Lexical Characterization

  • Appendix C

    Pro-Russia Propaganda Lexical Analysis

  • Appendix D

    Interview Protocol

主题Belarus ; Estonia ; Information Operations ; The Internet ; Latvia ; Lithuania ; Republic of Moldova ; Russia ; Social Media Analysis ; Soviet Union ; Ukraine
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2237.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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Todd C. Helmus,Elizabeth Bodine-Baron,Andrew Radin,et al. Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe. 2018.
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