Share this page!

Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture
Twitter logo
5 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Our latest analysis from ISD Germany evidences the extent of Russian state-controlled German-language broadcaster RT DE's influence on YouTube, and how it became an integral part of the COVID-19 sceptic online community in the country. (1/4) isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
YouTube took action against RT DE’s content and deleted its page on Sept. 28, 2021, but before then the majority of the videos in question already had over 100,000 views—the most popular having 1.2 million views at the time of data collection. (2/4)
The majority of COVID-19 related videos were openly critical toward gov. restrictions in Germany, the U.S. and other democracies, and often contained misleading and false claims, backed by dubious expert commentary. (3/4)
Through its coverage of COVID-19, RT DE was highly shared among groups classified as anti-vaxx, conspiracy theorist, right-wing or left-wing populist and coronavirus deniers. This report is available in German. (4/4) Read more here: isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ISDglobal

Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture
18 Oct
ISD's @ChloeColliver2 is featured in tonight's BBC Panorama documentary on the rise of online abuse against women. ISD has led research in this area for multiple years, looking especially at elections where female candidates receive disproportionate hate. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
ISD's research identified attacks against female politicians & journalists during the US Presidential election (bit.ly/3loxzKp), EU Elections (bit.ly/3fbfxse), and Swedish (bit.ly/3n2kj0p) and Bavarian (bit.ly/3piBkpJ) elections.
On Twitter, our research has shown that up to 38% of content mentioning female election candidates can be abusive. On Facebook, female politicians received on average 12% more abusive comments than their male counterparts. isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
Read 7 tweets
Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture
18 Oct
‘Climate lockdown’ is a new type of disinformation that aims to drive fear about future ‘green tyranny’ – it claims gvmt overreach will be enacted under the pretext of climate change to strip people of civil liberties, using language explicitly related to the pandemic (1/12)
ISD tracked the emergence and spread of the ‘climate lockdown’ narrative, showing how poorly worded headlines from mainstream media were weaponised by right-wing outlets to warn of impending authoritarian doom. Read about it in our new report. (2/12) isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
A Guardian article with a misleading headline (top image, changed after a few hours to the bottom) suggesting a ‘global lockdown every two years’ was needed to combat climate change was the 2nd most shared link discussing ‘climate lockdown’, referred to in 28% of all posts (3/12) Image
Read 12 tweets
Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture
4 Aug
This Politico article on Islamic State exploitation of GETTR is based on our research into terrorist groups and their supporters online. This is just the latest attempt by these groups to gain a foothold on large, small and niche platforms. Thread (1/6) politico.com/news/2021/08/0…
We have previously documented how terrorist groups and their supporters have developed a toolbox of tactics and strategies to evade detection on Facebook. In this report ISD delved into the working mechanisms of those groups. (2/6) bbc.com/news/technolog…
In the wake of the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISD monitored the real-time hijacking of popular hashtags across Twitter by supporters. This included the use of sock puppet accounts and bots to pump out content from Telegram channels. (3/6) npr.org/2019/11/01/775…
Read 6 tweets
Institute for Strategic Dialogue Profile picture
16 Oct 20
ISD are proud to announce a new feature on their web site.
Our Digital Dispatches blog will provide the latest of our digital research on hate, disinformation and extremism in a concise, yet comprehensive, format.
isdglobal.org/digital_dispat… Digital Dispatches is the place to come for cutting-edge ana
Digital Dispatches will share our unique data and insights on online manipulation, whether it is how new social media platforms like TikTok battle (or not) the spread of disinformation, or analysing how fake news goes viral in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
We have a great team behind Digital Dispatches, which includes journalist and author of ‘War in 140 Characters’, David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) as well as regular contributions from our wider Digital Analysis Unit. Visit Digital Dispatches at isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ISDglobal has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ISDglobal!

Read all threads by @ISDglobal

:(