Analytics
Digital soldiers of disinformation: botnets on Belarusian YouTube
In March 2025, a study was published that revealed extensive botnet activity in comments under Belarusian and international videos on YouTube.
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FIMI Frontier
Political hashtags trending on Romanian TikTok
On May 4, 2025, presumably the first round of presidential elections was held in Romania — an event that, as in other countries in the region, is actively
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How Belarusian propaganda disinforms about the Polish elections
In the run-up to the first round of presidential elections in Poland, scheduled for May 18, 2025, we conducted a detailed analysis of content from Belarusian
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Analytics
How bots affect discussions: a study of YouTube comments in March 2025
Less than 1% of accounts, but almost 12% of comments: the scale of botnets in political YouTube. 39% of videos attacked by botnets. As part of this research
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Analytics
Disinformation and Electoral Processes: Technologies for Manipulating Public Opinion
Disinformation represents one of the most serious threats to information security in modern society, undermining public trust and distorting the information space.
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Monitorings
Belarusian Civil Society and Disinformation, January 2025
Distribution of "Civil Society" Topic Mentions in January 2025 Data was collected using tools provided by Oxylabs as part of Project 4β.
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Monitorings
Waves of Interest: How Belarusian Topics Appear and Disappear from YouTube Trends
YouTube remains a leading source of news and other information among the Belarusian internet audience. Therefore, monitoring YouTube trends in Belarus
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Monitorings
Belarusian Civil Society and Disinformation, December 2024
Distribution of mentions of the topic "civil society" in December 2024.The data was collected using tools provided by Oxylabs as part ofProject 4βDistribution
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Analytics
Analysis of the use of the hashtag #беларусь on TikTok, November 2024
Continuing to analyze and observe publications on the social network TikTok as a potentially dangerous source of disinformation and fake narratives circulating
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Monitorings
Analysis of YouTube activity of the largest state media of Belarus for October 2024
Continuing to monitor the activity of Belarusian YouTube channels owned by state media to more thoroughly analyze the narratives used and fact-check the
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