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@AtlanticCouncil's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.

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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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📅 Dec 17 | 8:30 AM ET What can Moldova's 2025 elections teach us about countering foreign information manipulation? 🇲🇩 Join DFRLab’s @Olari_Victoria & @EtoBuziashvili for a discussion & report launch under the FIMI ISAC’s FDEI project:
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The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab discusses lessons learned from safeguarding the 2025 elections in Moldova against foreign information manipulation and interference.
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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Join us today @ 8:30 AM ET | 2:30 PM CET for key lessons from Moldova’s 2025 elections w/ DFRLab's @EtoBuziashvili @Olari_Victoria & @laylamashkoor https://t.co/aA9BNrbuPT
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The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab discusses lessons learned from safeguarding the 2025 elections in Moldova against foreign information manipulation and interference.
@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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📅 Dec 17 | 8:30 AM ET What can Moldova's 2025 elections teach us about countering foreign information manipulation? 🇲🇩 Join DFRLab’s @Olari_Victoria & @EtoBuziashvili for a discussion & report launch under the FIMI ISAC’s FDEI project:
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@AtlanticCouncil
Atlantic Council
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The G20 Summit in South Africa offered a new vision of the future of AI. @DFRLab’s Konstantinos Komaitis examines the implications of the US absence and why Washington must re-engage as a genuine partner: https://t.co/Pc99hqy5TN
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The leaders’ declaration adopted at the recent Group of Twenty Summit in South Africa offers a new vision of the future of artificial intelligence.
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@Disinfo_Digest
Disinfo Digest
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Zegarmistrz z Moskwy. Anatomia wpływu Fundacji Gorczakowa w Gruzji. To nie jest historia jednej operacji ani jednego przelewu, lecz sieci ludzi, instytucji i symboli zsynchronizowanych z moskiewskim czasem. Mechanizm ten potrafił być brutalny, gdy wymagała tego sytuacja, i
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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Facing dynamically evolving propaganda threats, Moldova’s information space is under sustained pressure. Our latest report w/ @InfoOps_Polska examines how foreign actors exploit polarization & media fragmentation to shape public opinion
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The "MUGA Project – An Examination of the Information Environment: Moldova" report was created in response to the growing threats of propaganda and disinformation, which increasingly affect the...
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@ruslantrad
Ruslan Trad
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Екипът ни в @DFRLab се присъедини към механизма на канадското външно министерство Canada Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM Canada) и Института “Шварц Райсман” към Университета в Торонто за първия симпозиум на G7 RRM Digital Transnational Repression Detection Academy в Торонто.
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When foreign governments conduct surveillance, intimidation, or enforcement actions, they undermine state sovereignty and threaten to erode public trust in institutions, representing a significant...
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@MediaEcosystem
Media Ecosystem Observatory
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The committee also heard testimony from @etbrooking, Director of Strategy & Sr. Resident Fellow at CDMRN coalition partner @DFRLab/@AtlanticCouncil.
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@Disinfo_Digest
Disinfo Digest
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W Mołdawii trwa intensywna walka o wyobraźnię i emocje obywateli. Z jednej strony znajduje się proeuropejski kurs władz w Kiszyniowie, obejmujący dążenie do pogłębienia integracji z Unią Europejską oraz wzmocnienia współpracy z partnerami zachodnimi. Z drugiej strony widoczny
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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🔎 Drawing on our expertise countering a range online harms, the DFRLab helped build the Academy as a mechanism to strengthen collective capacity to expose manipulation, protect human rights, and defend democracy in the digital age. Read more:
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TORONTO — November 25, 2025  — The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), a global leader in open-source research and digital capacity building, in partnership with Global Affairs...
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DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 In Toronto, @DFRLab joined @CanadaFP Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM Canada) & @UofT for the @G7 Digital Transnational Repression Detection Academy Symposium launching a new initiative to strengthen how G7+ partners detect & counter digital transnational repression.
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🇺🇦Despite developing remarkable resilience since 2014, #Ukraine’s information space remains deeply contested. Our latest report w/ @InfoOps_Polska shows how years of conflict have reshaped the information environment:
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The report, "Information Environment Research: Ukraine," was developed as part of the MUGA project, implemented by the INFO OPS Poland Foundation and DFRLab (Atlantic Council). Its primary objective...
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DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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🇦🇲Our latest report under #ProjectMUGA w/ @InfoOps_Polska digs into the fault lines that make Armenia especially vulnerable to foreign influence, and how Russia is exploiting this moment of political and social transition. Read now:
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Raport: Analysis of Armenia's information environment The report you hold was prepared as part of the MUGA project, implemented by the INFO OPS Poland Foundation and DFRLab (Atlantic Council). Its...
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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📅Today @ 9AM ET Join the Democracy+Tech Initiative as we explore how digital identity is reshaping governance across Africa: https://t.co/sKyTgy6jL5 Have questions for the panelists? Visit https://t.co/sY1WF0OsD8 to share your insight 💬
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Join the conversation and ask questions during Atlantic Council events.
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DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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📅Nov 19 @ 9AM | Digital identity systems are transforming governance across Africa while raising big questions about privacy, inclusion & power. Join experts Sani Suleiman, Grace Mutungu'u, Thobekile Matimbe & Juliet Nanfuka as we unpack what’s at stake: https://t.co/sKyTgy6jL5
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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📅Nov 19 @ 9AM | Digital identity systems are transforming governance across Africa while raising big questions about privacy, inclusion & power. Join experts Sani Suleiman, Grace Mutungu'u, Thobekile Matimbe & Juliet Nanfuka as we unpack what’s at stake: https://t.co/sKyTgy6jL5
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The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative hosts a conversation on biometric and digital identification systems in Africa.
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DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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#TransnationalRepression is reshaping how authoritarian regimes project power & target critics abroad. A new report from @kolga @imleeszefung @kentonthibaut @nsc @lisandranovo introduces a strategic framework to identify, disrupt & prevent these ops:
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When foreign governments conduct surveillance, intimidation, or enforcement actions, they undermine state sovereignty and threaten to erode public trust in institutions, representing a significant...
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@kolga
Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦
2 months
Countering authoritarian transnational repression takes government and allied coordination. Proud to have worked with @AtlanticCouncil + colleagues @imleeszefung @kentonthibaut @nsc @lisandranovo on this new framework to disrupt and deter it.
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@ruslantrad
Ruslan Trad
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I see that the myths Russia created in 2014 continue to circulate. I suppose this will be the case for a long time. My colleague Kiril Avramov and I spent a long time tracking the narratives that Moscow was successfully constructing: 1) that Wagner is a private military company,
@Acyn
Acyn
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Ungar-Sargon: When this war began, Crimea was part of Russia. Ukraine was not part of NATO and the donbas region—donetsk and luhansk were independent republics. There was a civil war there. They were not part of Ukraine.
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@DFRLab
DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social
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⏳ Loading… The DFRLab’s #DigitalSherlocks program is preparing for its next chapter 🔎 After a pause, we are excited to share that the program will return in 2026. For future announcements and updates, subscribe to the DFRLab’s #TheSource: https://t.co/TR0KEeJiMD
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@ACEurasia
Eurasia Center
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🔍🆕REPORT | Sanctioned Russian actor linked to new media outlet targeting Moldova. @DFRLab's @EtoBuziashvili and @GLOBSEC's Jakub Kubś analyze malign Russian disinformation operations seeking to influence Moldova's parliamentary elections. Read more⬇️ https://t.co/o8iXuJxAEy
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REST is linked to the Russian threat actor Rybar, which targets EU countries, along with Moldova.
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