Additional Reading on Disinformation

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A Light in Libya’s Fog of Disinformation

By Africa Center for Strategic Studies, October 9, 2020

Divisions within Libya’s civil war have been amplified by foreign-sponsored disinformation campaigns. Reconciliation and peacebuilding will require local actors to reclaim Libya’s digital spaces.

Russian Disinformation Campaigns Target Africa: An Interview with Dr. Shelby Grossman

By Africa Center for Strategic Studies, February 18, 2020

The growing sophistication of Russia’s disinformation campaigns in Africa demand greater vigilance from tech companies, internet watchdog groups, and governments.

Disinformation Campaigns Target Tech-Enabled Citizen Journalists

By Steven Livingston, Brookings, March 2, 2017

Tisinformation campaigns are popular among states accused of human rights violations and war crimes. None is more popular than the Russian template: a two-pronged approach that attacks the credibility of reporters of abuses as well as sows confusion about the reality of the abuse itself, thereby denying the possibility for any serious accounting. And yet, tech-enabled citizens can set the record straight. The collection of evidence—pictures, recordings, texts—can be crowd-sourced with the ubiquitous mobile phone. Combined with satellite imagery and international fact-finding missions, this evidence becomes irrefutable and can force accountability on states.

Security Topics:  Disinformation