IN FOCUS
Through the labyrinth of fake profiles
Fake posts concerning death of public figures, accusations for pedophilia, sexual predation and violence against women have been spotted on a couple of Facebook profiles. All of this led us to suspect the coordinated activities. Fake...
Figure of the week: 75,000
Facebook took down 50 Instagram accounts that indicated links to the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and posted 75,000 times. An analysis of the recent disinformation campaign by Graphika, a leading data science and network...
Proponents of conspiracy theories – out of belief or necessity?
Many self-proclaimed experts, geo-strategists, theologians, and ufologists with questionable authority, often using pseudoscience, offer audiences alternative versions of reality. Michael Butter, a professor of American Literature and...
DFC 365: MONTENEGRO IS REDIER TO COUNTER HYBRID THREATS, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
“DFC 365“ Conference, organized by the Atlantic Council of Montenegro was held on October 22, 2019, in Centreville hotel in Podgorica. The Conference served as the occasion to present a year of work of the Digital Forensic Center...
2024 – A year of tectonic changes?
The portal RIA Novosti (Rus. РИА Новости) published on October 20, 2019, a text entitled Swedish economist: In 2024, Russia will fall apart or ruin the world. The text, in an ironical manner, analyses a book The Crash of 2024 by Stefan...
The Balkan powder keg
Körber Policy Game is a small group of politicians, senior officials and experts who analyze fictitious scenarios and their potential consequences globally. The group is engaged in projecting current foreign and security policy trends...
STATE OF PLAY
The beginning of the 21st century marked the shift in definition of the power from conventional, military and hard power to its much more non-violent and non-conventional form, in a way that mass media, social media and information have become weapons of choice. Many countries, Western Balkans states included, face the same challenge of responding and resisting to the disinformation campaigns aimed against them.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to identify, explain and counter the problem of disinformation and fake news narratives through open source research; to promote truth and critical thinking; reduce problem of digital/media illiteracy through events, workshops and lectures that will raise awareness of this issue. People have the right to always ask for the proof. Their mindset should be to always question!
UNDERSTANDING DISINFO
The problem of disinformation is broader than any individual country or actor spreading malign narratives. That is why we, within Digital Forensic Center, want to place the foundation for digital hub that will fight new media and digital disinformation through the multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach. These campaigns are synchronized and systematic, so the response must be as well.