Week 11
Fighting Foreign Disinformation
Lecture Readings
Information Integrity Online and the European Democracy Shield
Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Reading guidance: This is a long document. Read the Executive Summary and skim the remaining chapters.
Countering Disinformation in the Euro-Atlantic: Strengths and Gaps
Further Readings
Lessons from Ukraine
Jakub Kalenský and Roman Osadchuk
How Ukraine Fights Russian Disinformation: Beehive vs Mammoth
Hybrid CoE Research Report 11 (2024)
Marina Pesenti and Peter Pomerantsev
How to Stop Disinformation: Lessons from Ukraine for the Wider World
Legatum Institute (2016)
Todd C. Helmus and Khrystyna Holynska
Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Disinformation: Lessons for Future Conflict
RAND Corporation (2024)
More on National Resilience Policies
UK Government Communications
RESIST 3: Building Resilience to Information Threats
UK Government (2025)
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Effective State Practices Against Disinformation: Four Country Case Studies
Hybrid CoE Research Report 2 (2021)
Flavia Durach, Mălina Ciocea and Cătălina Nastasiu
“Countering Disinformation: A Delicate Balance Between International Action and National Particularities”
Media and Communication (2025)
More on EU Policies
European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
European Democracy Shield: Empowering Strong and Resilient Democracies
Joint Communication (2025)
Reading guidance: Focus especially on the first 10 pages.
Lucas Proto, Paula Lamoso-González and Luis Bouza García
“The EU’s FIMI Turn: How the European Union External Action Service Reframed the Disinformation Fight”
Media and Communication (2025)
Developing Counter-Narratives
Organization for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD)
Reclaiming Our Narratives: A Practical Guide to Countering Identity-Based Disinformation
Emic Press (2025)
A Historical Example
Peter Pomerantsev
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
PublicAffairs (2024)
Philip J. Costopoulos
“The Perils of Propaganda”
Journal of Democracy (2024)
More on Countering Russian Influence
House of Commons Library
Countering Russian Influence in the UK
Research Briefing (2025)
Ondrej Ditrych and Steven Everts
Unpowering Russia: How the EU Can Counter and Undermine the Kremlin
EU Institute for Security Studies (2025)
Educational Strategies
Cristina M. Arribas, Manuel Gertrudix and Rubén Arcos
“Preventive Strategies Against Disinformation: A Study on Digital and Information Literacy Activities Led by Fact-Checking Organisations”
Open Research Europe (2025)
Cristina Ivan
“Teaching Resilience to Disinformation: A National and European Perspective”
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (2025)