UkraineWorld prepared a video to explain how social media are changing politics.
Although Ukraine has become a focus of international attention in recent years, it remains terra incognita for many audiences.
UkraineWorld expert spoke with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was the President of Estonia from 2006 through 2016, about chips, deep fakes, Russian bots, Mogherini, and other topics in digital security.
2017 turned out to be rich in newsbreaks in the judicial sphere, which undoubtedly focused the media attention on court proceedings in Kharkiv and the region.
Natalia Freik, Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, analysed the EU coverage in Ukrainian regional media.
Texty.org exposed a network of approximately 2 thousand Facebook users, which had close ties with groups of “Stepan Mazura”, a DNR combatant; the latter has long pretended to be a Ukrainian patriot. It is a network of public groups and users who spread calls for riots and protests under disguise of patriotic slogans.
Vitalii Moroz and Olha Hurtovenko, coordinators at Digital Security School 380, analysed the cybersecurity challenges for Ukraine.
Olena Shkarpova, VoxCheck Project editor, and the team of VoxCheck analysts, science editors and volunteers prepared the ranking of populists and liars in Ukrainian politics.
Vitalii Rybak, analyst at Internews Ukraine and UkraineWorld, analysed the situation with media ownership in Ukraine.
Over the past years and even decades, Ukraine has been at the forefront of counteracting Russian information warfare.