In September 2022, Nina Jankowicz announced the launch of The Hypatia Project, which she conducts at the UK-based Center for Information Resilience (CIR)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Jank…
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pulitzercenter.org/people/nina-ja…
Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia & Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She sits on the advisory boards of the CIR & Zinc Network's Open Info Partnership
pulitzercenter.org/stories/ukrain…
"Zelensky, like Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign, is a political novice and expert entertainer whose campaign made for gripping political television. POROSHENKO, like Hillary Clinton, was hampered by his much longer record of public service..🍿
"UKRAINE IS, IF ANYTHING, more polarized than America. The wealthiest individuals control TV networks, ..
Freedom House ..wrote "at least four major media groups, which together garner a television audience share of about 76%, are owned by powerful…oligarchs..
Ukraine's oligarch network owners are a colorful bunch. Viktor Pinchuk, one of the wealthiest men on earth, who is married to the daughter of the second President of Ukraine, owns TV channel ICTV .. 🍿
"..criticized for broadcasting too much Russian content in the years since the Euromaidan protests in 2013 and 2014 that ousted the corrupt regime of Viktor YANUKOVYCH .. 🍿
"Dmytro FIRTASH 👀, a gas magnate in exile over a corruption scandal, owns Inter, a network with a sympathetic view towards Russia .. 🍿
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" Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, owns "Ukraina."..🤔
manager-magazin.de/finanzen/immob…
"1+1, the country's most popular channel—which hosts president-elect Zelensky's TV programs—is owned by Ihor KOLOMOISKY , whose bank the Ukrainian government nationalized after he defrauded his customers of $5.5 billion. ..🍿
(He is now in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and Israel, and whether Zelensky distances himself from Kolomoisky will be one of his presidency's early and most important tests). .. 🍿
"Other networks with less market share are owned by outgoing president Petro Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ...🍿
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"Dinara Habibullaeva, a Poroshenko advisor: "We have this situation where…the population voted for a showman, an actor who is not well versed in politics, who is a puppet of Kolomoisky and the channel that Kolomoisky controls puts out fakes." ..🍿🍿
"She agrees with Poroshenko's decision to sue the network, and said she supported shutting it down entirely .. 😏
Center for Information Resilience Advisor :
Elisabeth Braw
Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Before joining AEI, Elisabeth was a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI
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Center for Information Resilience Advisor :
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toomas_He…
an Estonian politician who was the 4th president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016
2016, Ilves has been co-chairing the #WEF working group The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology
Center for Information Resilience Advisor :
Dr. Charles Kriel
Disinformation Expert
Charles is the regular co-host of the disinformation podcast Infotagion, with Damian Collins MP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Co…
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Center for Information Resilience Advisor :
Simon Ostrovsky
PBS , VICE reporter
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