{"id":5189,"date":"2017-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/kremlin-watch-briefing-russian-bots-and-promises\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:21:31","slug":"kremlin-watch-briefing-russian-bots-and-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/cs\/kremlin-watch-briefing-russian-bots-and-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin Watch Briefing: Russian bots and promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly monitor of pro-Kremlin disinformation effort in Europe. We follow best European analysts, best counter-measures and trends.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Topics of the Week<\/h2>\n

According to the NATO StratCom CoE quarterly\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cRobotrolling\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>70% of Twitter messages about NATO in the Baltic States and Poland were created by bots in the Russian-language sphere<\/em><\/strong>. Overall, 60% of active Russian-language accounts seem to be automated, in comparison with 39% of English-language accounts. The last three-month period offers a snapshot of what \u201cnormal\u201d levels of automation look like, with the highest levels of activity witnessed in Poland.<\/em><\/p>\n

During her\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0at the Lord Mayor\u2019s Banquet,\u00a0<\/em>Theresa May described Russian activities as a \u201csustained campaign of cyber-espionage and disruption\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, sowing \u201cdiscord in the West.\u201d She warned the Kremlin that it will not succeed, because it underestimates the resilience of Western democracies.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg,\u00a0<\/em>Canadian troops in Latvia are being\u00a0smeared by Russian-backed<\/a>\u00a0digital propaganda and disinformation<\/em><\/strong>intended to undermine the Alliance. Russia-linked social media accounts have allegedly been circulating false or misrepresentative stories about Canadian soldiers stationed in the country in order to undercut popular support in Latvia for NATO presence.<\/em><\/p>\n

Increasing public and governmental pressure on tech companies is beginning to bear fruit, as they face growing demand for accountability and for regulations to catch up to the technology. Amidst the investigations, both\u00a0<\/em>Facebook and Twitter are\u00a0hiring lobbying help<\/a>\u00a0to address issues related to Russian use of social media platforms for electoral interference<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good Old Soviet Joke<\/h2>\n

In Soviet Russia, Waldo finds you.<\/p>\n

US Developments<\/h2>\n

Curbing political advertising on social media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pressure on tech companies continues to increase following recent congressional hearings that highlighted their (unintentional) complicity with Russian disinformation efforts during the 2016 election. For example, Roger Mcnamee, an early investor in Google and Facebook, has\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook to contact everyone who was exposed to fake news on the platform during the election. He is also pushing for Congress to ask that tech CEOs issue public statements about Russian interference efforts in order to raise civic awareness and hopefully depoliticize the issue.<\/p>\n

The Alliance for Securing Democracy is also\u00a0calling<\/a>\u00a0for tech companies to \u201cwork with national security experts to better understand the potential vulnerabilities of their platforms [\u2026] Social media companies must understand that having an honest public conversation and taking smart steps now to regulate these technologies will help head off government overreach in response as the problem gets worse. This should include ensuring that online political advertising is subject to the same rules as advertising on other mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pressure \u2013 both public and governmental \u2013 is beginning to bear fruit, as these companies face growing demand for accountability and for\u00a0regulations to catch up to the technology<\/a>.\u00a0Facebook has recently announced plans to\u00a0double<\/a>\u00a0its staff dedicated to delicate security and community issues to 20,000 by the end of 2018. Amidst the investigations, both Facebook and Twitter are\u00a0hiring lobbying help<\/a>\u00a0to address issues related to Russian use of social media platforms for electoral interference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Government email spoofing by foreign entities<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent report by\u00a0Proofpoint\u00a0<\/a>reveals that spoofing of government emails by foreign actors is worryingly common, raising concerns about increases in scope if the problem goes unaddressed.\u00a0According to the report<\/a>,\u00a012.4% of messages professing to be US government emails were in fact spoofs<\/strong>. 80% of these spoofs were linked to Russian IP addresses (according to data from August 2017). Since January 2016, Russia is considered responsible for 27% of spoofed government emails. In a positive step, the Department of Homeland Security issued a binding operational directive (BOD 18-01) last month mandating that all agencies upgrade and bolster their email and online cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Canada\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg,\u00a0Canadian troops in Latvia are being\u00a0<\/strong>smeared by Russian-backed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0digital propaganda and disinformation<\/strong>intended to undermine the Alliance. Russia-linked social media accounts have allegedly been circulating false or misrepresentative stories about Canadian soldiers stationed in the country in order to undercut popular support in Latvia for NATO presence. Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan stated that the response is to lead by example: \u201cThe best way to diffuse any type of fake news is to actually go reach out to the community. Canadians are always going to do what they do best: go out and build relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

While support for NATO in Latvia remains high, Canadians are growing increasingly aware that they and their elections are not going to remain untouched by Russian interference efforts.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin\u2019s Current Narrative<\/h2>\n

\u201cUnbalanced\u201d UN and \u201cbalanced\u201d RT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Russia vetoed a\u00a0UN resolution on Syrian chemical weapons<\/strong>. The resolution aimed to establish how the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) should proceed with investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria, including the April incident in Khan Shaykhun. Traditionally, RT was among the first ones to defend the Russian position,\u00a0calling the proposed resolution\u00a0\u201cunbalanced\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and claiming that its main goal was to\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cquestion the role of Russia in the process of Syrian political settlement.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0RT carries on with criticising JIM\u2019s mission that put the blame on the Assad regime to be politicized. At the same time, RT suggests that the chemical attack was the result…of an explosion at the warehouse and has nothing to do with the actions of governmental forces. Well, crimes against humanity aren\u2019t an easy thing to lie about, but Russia isn\u2019t giving up!<\/p>\n

When Zakharova speaks from her heart…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously, Maria Zakharova couldn’t have bypassed the topic of Syria in her briefing. After a very predictable speech on how Russia is fighting ISIS while Western countries provide cover for extremists, Zakharova decided to speak from\u00a0her heart.<\/a>\u00a0Zakharova decided to reach out to ordinary Europeans and urged them to think a bit about their future. According to her logic,\u00a0Western countries are responsible for the terrorist attacks in Europe<\/strong>. Yes, you read that correctly. Zakharova claims that\u00a0while Russia is fighting international terrorism, the US-led coalition shields and emboldens extremists<\/strong>. She also suggests that after another terrorist attack, along with \u201cchanging profile pictures to support their friends<\/em>\u201d, people should think \u201cabout the helpers of terrorist groups who are doing their best to preserve terrorist elements and militants in Syria in order to promote their selfish political interests in the reconfiguration of the structure of that region\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>Hm, that sounds very much like a description of Russia to us\u2026<\/p>\n

Russia is a victim, Ukraine a perpetrator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whenever Vzglyad tries to write about Ukraine, it\u2019s always golden. This time, the\u00a0Russian newspaper blames Kyiv with starting a new phase of\u00a0informational war against Russia<\/a><\/strong>. The outrage was sparked by the announcement of Ukraine\u2019s General Staff about the visit of American, Canadian and Danish military experts tasked with analysing the military and political situation in Donbas and Crimea. In the original communique, there is no mention that observers are going to visit Crimea \u2013 but has Russia ever cared about facts? Vzglyad twisted the news to give an opportunity to various political figures to address the idea that\u00a0\u201cCrimea is Russia\u201d<\/em>. Responses were beautiful:\u00a0Ukraine should better send an inspection to the moon instead of Crimea; this is a new attempt of Ukraine to encroach on Russian territorial integrity; Ukraine has created a virtual Crimea with virtual institutions that run it and this virtual Crimea will be inspected.\u00a0<\/em>And the last one is by Aksionov:\u00a0Russia is a victim of the informational war<\/em>. Curtain falls.<\/p>\n

PUTIN’S CHAMPION AWARD<\/h2>\n

Our\u00a0Expert Jury<\/a>\u00a0consisting of\u00a0Jessikka Aro, Peter Kreko, Nerijus Maliukevi\u010dius, Anton Shekhovtsov and John Schindler,\u00a0<\/strong>regularly votes on the dangerousness of several candidates you can nominate via e-mail or Twitter.<\/p>\n

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22th Putin\u2019s Champion Award Recipient Is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Scottish secessionist politician Alex Salmond<\/h1>\n
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source: Scottish Government<\/em><\/p>\n
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for becoming Kremlin\u2019s useful idiot as he is joining the RT as a host of a new political show.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Expert Jury ranked his Putin-supportive job with<\/p>\n
4,3<\/strong><\/h1>\n
(of out 5) mark.<\/p>\n
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Policy & Research News<\/h2>\n
Is European leadership stepping up?<\/strong><\/p>\n
As we know, the European response to the Kremlin\u2019s disinformation and influence operations has thus far been limited. The status quo has prevailed despite several political calls for improvement, including our recent\u00a0Prague Declaration<\/a>.\u00a0The European Commission has now set up a High-Level Expert Group to develop a\u00a0<\/strong>strategy<\/strong><\/a>that would deal with disinformation<\/strong>. The new strategy will be published in spring next year, after receiving feedback from the public, academia, media outlets and civil society.<\/p>\n
Despite being in the process of leaving the EU,\u00a0British Prime Minister Theresa May<\/strong>has not lagged behind with her latest statements. During her\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0at the Lord Mayor\u2019s Banquet, she described Russian activities as a \u201csustained campaign of cyber-espionage and disruption\u201d, sowing \u201cdiscord in the West.\u201d\u00a0She warned the Kremlin that it will not succeed, because it underestimates the resilience of Western democracies<\/strong>. Certainly, we should not be complacent on this front: bolstering our resilience, at all levels of society, must be a priority for every country seeking to mitigate the Kremlin\u2019s hostile influence.<\/p>\n
Spain wants to join the fight<\/strong><\/p>\n
The\u00a0Catalan Constitutional Court<\/a>\u00a0has repeatedly affirmed that the rejection of the referendum on the independence of Catalonia has not violated the rights of the citizens in the Catalan region. On the contrary, holding a referendum violated the 1978 Constitution, which was adopted in a referendum by more than 90% of Catalans, and which guarantees the unity of Spain.<\/p>\n
The EU anti-propaganda unit has seen an\u00a0increasing amount of<\/a>\u00a0disinformation and counterfeit reports on the political crisis in Spain.\u00a0Russian and pro-Russian media both falsely reported that the EU actively supported violence against protesters<\/strong>. Some reports have compared Spain to Ukraine and the Catalan region to Ukraine\u2019s Donbas, in the sense that the civil war currently taking place in Ukraine is now emerging in Spain.\u00a0Spain itself has responded to the increased concentration of disinformation and false reports by raising the issue at a recent meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers in Brussels<\/strong>. This pro-Russian\u00a0propaganda<\/a>\u00a0aims to delegitimize democratic governments, undermine citizens’ thinking, and twist their opinions. “If your aim is to divide and weaken (the West), you simply wait for these opportunities (of political crisis),” the EU source said.<\/p>\n
Irrefutable proof of the Kremlin\u2019s audacity<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Russian Ministry of Defence attempted to spread alleged \u201cproof\u201d of cooperation between the United States and ISIS in the Middle East. Unfortunately for them, they didn\u2019t manage to find any real evidence, and therefore published screenshots from a videogame (!) on their Twitter and Facebook pages to evince their desired point.<\/p>\n
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SCREENGRAB\/YOUTUBE\/BYTE\u00a0CONVEYOR\u00a0STUDIOS<\/em><\/p>\n
As the EEAS East Stratcom Task Force suggests on its\u00a0website<\/a>, we should brace ourselves for even more audacious efforts by the Kremlin in the future:<\/p>\n
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EEAS East Stratcom Task Force\/Lentach Twitter account<\/em><\/p>\n
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\u201cProud Texan\u201d commenting on European politics<\/strong><\/p>\n
You might remember that this photo taken by photographer Jamie Lorriman during the aftermath of the Westminster attack in March.<\/p>\n
Jamie Lorriman<\/em><\/p>\n
It is now being shared on social media as an alleged example of a Muslim woman ignoring the victims around her and focusing on her phone, even though we think that she actually looks seriously distraught by the situation. Twitter has now\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that this claim was originally shared by a\u00a0fake account created by a pro-Kremlin bot<\/strong>. The account, which has been shut down, described itself as a \u201cproud Texan and American patriot\u201d, and also spread messages supporting Brexit and indulged in European politics from time to time.<\/p>\n
Kremlin Watch Reading Suggestion<\/h2>\n
Robotrolling 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
The NATO StratCom CoE published its\u00a0second issue<\/a>\u00a0of Robotrolling, a quarterly publication dedicated to the activities of\u00a0automated bots<\/strong>\u00a0on social media. As in the first issue,\u00a0the report focuses specifically on messages about NATO in the Baltic States and Poland on Twitter<\/strong>, of which 70% were created by bots in the Russian-language sphere. Overall, 60% of active Russian-language accounts seem to be automated, by comparison to 39% of English-language accounts. According to the CoE\u2019s data, Twitter is less effective at removing automatically generated Russian content than it is English material. Even though there has been some positive development, pressure should continue in order to ensure further improvements.<\/p>\n
Compared with the previous period, this quarter was relatively free of large-scale, politically motivated robotic interventions. As such, it may offer a snapshot of what \u201cnormal\u201d levels of automation might look like going forward. From the four countries, Poland by far saw the highest levels of activity. As for the themes of the messages, it is striking how little mention there was of the Zapad 2017 military exercise in the Russian-language space, considering the attention it received in traditional Western media. Nevertheless, Russian sources did not ignore it completely, they just targeted external audiences only.<\/p>\n
There is a trove of interesting data in the report. The next issue plans to focus on other social networks as well.<\/p>\n
Subscribe to Kremlin Watch Briefing!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
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