8)Article has significant implications for how we understand disinformation, and how it is best combatted

7)Disinformation lifecycle can be viewed both as a sequence of developments from birth to death and rebirth, and as an atemporal system of interactions between factors endogenous within, and exogenous to, disinformation

6)Model allows us to show how disinformation claims do not travel as fixed objects but are discursively renegotiated as they journey, acquiring new, layered meanings at every point in the cycle

5) The lifecycle process follows a logic that is both simultaneous (the dialogue with counter-disinformation applies at all points) and linear (from allegation, to rebuttal, to counter-allegation)

4)Analysis of how COVID claims are authenticated across media genres; how they modulate to reflect shifting scientific consensus; how they are adapted for different linguistic audiences; hyperlink analysis detailing Russian/non-Russian collusion; their de-authentication by CDUs

3)We applied to this material a combination of qualitative close-reading methods and computer-driven network analysis tools in five replicable analytical steps visualised in diagrammatic form. Steps include …

2)Developed from multilingual Russian state COVID material identified by the EU’s CDU, this holistic model represents disinformation as a lifecycle wherein truth claims cross borders, moving in and out of counter-disinformation’s discursive sphere, gaining or losing credibility

1)Offers a new theorisation of disinformation accounting for how it is adapted across historical, linguistic and cultural contexts in line with its changing status as accusatory practice, and its dialogic interaction with counter-disinformation unit (CDU) practices

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Title of the report: "Kremlin Proxies and the Post-RT Western Media Landscape: An EU Elections Case Study"

Authors of the report: @stevhutch.bsky.social, Alexandr Voronovici, Vera Tolz, @neilsadler.bsky.social, Max Alyukov, and Sofia Tipaldou

Some highlights of the report in the thread