The Digitization of Disinformation Campaigns: How modern disinformation campaigns – whose methods and composition changed during the information … (Arbeiten zur Europäischen Sicherheit)

The information revolution changed the way state-organized disinformation campaigns are conducted. The spreading of various forms of propaganda, confusing half-truths and pure falsehoods has accelerated, and social media has made it possible to reach an increasing number of people in a targeted fashion, in an ever-shorter news cycle. In the past disinformation actors mostly tried to persuade an audience of a single made-up story. Nowadays in the so-called post-truth era, disinformation actors rather attempt to dissuade an audience of the evidence-based story by disseminating an unending number of alternative narratives. At the core of this research lays the question how to deal with disinformation in digitized society