In this blog post, SCRIPTS researcher Dr. Gözde Böcü explores how patterns of disinformation identified in conflict contexts can inform democratic resilience strategies, and outline how the Impact Hub is translating this knowledge into practice through policy exchange and capacity-building formats.

 Key insights:

• Disinformation campaigns are becoming increasingly prevalent in geopolitical contexts, often forming part of a broader hybrid influence strategy.

• Manipulation techniques, such as exacerbating social divisions, instrumentalising state and non-state actors to manipulate information and exploiting platform vulnerabilities to amplify manipulated narratives, recur across different contexts despite different scope conditions.
• The effectiveness of counter-strategies depends heavily on the specific context. Furthermore, resilience to disinformation campaigns cannot be achieved through government measures alone; civil society organisations, independent media, and the research community must also play a key role.
• Against this backdrop, exchange between academia, politics, and the private sector is becoming increasingly important. To achieve a long-term impact, it is essential to establish structures for continued exchange between research and policymaking.

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