Information wars as a threat to the information security of Ukraine

Сопілко, Ірина Миколаївна; Svintsytskyi, Andrii V.; Krasovska, Yevheniia; Padalka, Andrii M.; Lyseiuk, Andrii

doi:10.1002/crq.21331

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“…Within the scope of propaganda, fear is manipulated by dictators to oppress citizens of the state and to convince people that violence and aggression against the enemy is justified. In the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian Federation is promoting fear of the enemy to justify the violent infiltration onto Ukrainian soil in efforts to 'liberate Ukrainians from tyranny' (Sopilko et al, 2022). It is this fear that has been manipulated to justify acts of war, violence, and the killing of any person who stands in the way of 'liberation' (Sopilko et al, 2022;Diaz Ruiz & Nilsson, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given the vast amount of research that indicates the presence of emotional manipulation in TFD (Barclay, 2018;Haataja, 2019;Sopilko et al, 2022;Cheung-Blunden et al, 2021;Manfredi, Amado, & Gomez-Iniesta, 2022), the emotional content seen within the articles is understandable. When false narratives are presented in a way that encourages outrage, the reader's guard drops, and the desire to think critically becomes reduced (Barclay, 2018).…”

Section: Psychological Manipulation: Curated Content and Exploitation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information Trolls and Democracy: A Qualitative Examination of Disinformation Campaigns in Canada

University,

University

2024

Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice &Amp; Criminology

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Online communication platforms have evolved into indispensable and powerful tools employed by a myriad of individuals, groups, businesses, agencies, and political parties to disseminate information. Through online communication tools, we can connect with friends and family, stay updated on the latest products and gadgets, converse with others, and maintain updated knowledge on local, national, and global events. This evolving technology can connect people through the rapid dissemination of information. Previous offline communication tools are still commonly used, but they cannot compete with the streamlined capabilities that online platforms possess to distribute information. Online tools, such as social media platforms, can be beneficial to bridging the geographical gaps that can hinder social cohesion, yet the same technology can be an accessory to social ABSTRACT This research explores disinformation delivered during the 2019 Canadian Federal election. This study explores the methods and techniques used by the perpetrators of disinformation campaigns in the context of Canadian elections. This research also examines whether the disinformation discovered during the election falls within criminal foreign interference. Critical discourse analysis is used to qualitatively analyze 26 articles published by a Northeastern U.S. based independent news website within the ten months leading up to the election. This research finds that the use of unnamed sources, hyperbolic statements to misrepresent facts, and strategies to de-legitimize reputable institutions were the most common tools used by the source to engage in a disinformation campaign targeting Canadian democracy. This research reveals evidence that raises questions about the potential involvement of foreign entities in the 2019 Canadian Federal election.

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Information Trolls and Democracy: A Qualitative Examination of Disinformation Campaigns in Canada

University,

University

2024

Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice &Amp; Criminology

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“…Access to several Russian Internet resources has been restricted since April 2017, including two Russian social networks: VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. 4 The denial of Russia's aggression and attempts to justify it have been criminalized in Ukraine since 3 March 2022 (Sopilko et al, 2022).…”

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Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Oleinik,

Paniotto

2024

International Sociology

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Since Lasswell, propaganda has been considered one of three chief implements of warfare, along with military and economic pressure. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revives public and scholarly interest in war propaganda. The Russian political leader frames the war as an imperial war. The Ukrainian political leader frames it as a war of national liberation. The discursive battle thus complements the military combat. The outcome of the discursive combat depends on the effectiveness of propaganda deployed by the parties involved. Propaganda effectiveness is the propagation of war-related messages stated by political leaders through various media with no or few distortions. The effectiveness of propaganda is compared (1) across countries, with a particular focus on two belligerents, Russia and Ukraine, (2) in the function of the medium (mass media, digital media), and (iii) using two different methods (content analysis and survey research). Data were collected during the first year of the large-scale invasion (February 2022 to February 2023). Survey data allowed measuring the degree of the target audience’s agreement with key propagated messages.

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“…And the mechanized warfare gave way to the information warfare [1]. The winning mechanism of information warfare is to seize battlefield information superiority [2−4] and turn it into decision-making and action superiority [5]. Information superiority has become the key to the victory of information war [6−8].…”

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A Framework of Force of Information Influence and Application for C4KISR System

Mao,

Diao,

Sun

et al. 2024

J. of Syst. Eng. Electron.

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The subversive nature of information war lies not only in the information itself, but also in the circulation and application of information. It has always been a challenge to quantitatively analyze the function and effect of information flow through command, control, communications, computer, kill, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4KISR) system. In this work, we propose a framework of force of information influence and the methods for calculating the force of information influence between C4KISR nodes of sensing, intelligence processing, decision making and fire attack. Specifically, the basic concept of force of information influence between nodes in C4KISR system is formally proposed and its mathematical definition is provided. Then, based on the information entropy theory, the model of force of information influence between C4KISR system nodes is constructed. Finally, the simulation experiments have been performed under an air defense and attack scenario. The experimental results show that, with the proposed force of information influence framework, we can effectively evaluate the contribution of information circulation through different C4KISR system nodes to the corresponding tasks. Our framework of force of information influence can also serve as an effective tool for the design and dynamic reconfiguration of C4KISR system architecture.

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Information wars as a threat to the information security of Ukraine

Cited by 11 publications

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Information Trolls and Democracy: A Qualitative Examination of Disinformation Campaigns in Canada

Information Trolls and Democracy: A Qualitative Examination of Disinformation Campaigns in Canada

Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

A Framework of Force of Information Influence and Application for C4KISR System

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