Disinformation & Influence Operations Fundamentals

Disinformation & Influence Operations Fundamentals gives you the keys to understand information manipulation, one of the major threats to democracies and organisations. You will learn the precise vocabulary (misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, FIMI), the psychological and algorithmic mechanisms that make manipulation work, the methods of the main state actors (Russia, China, Iran) and of commercial influence firms, the role of generative AI, and how professionals detect, analyse and respond to influence operations with the ABCDE and DISARM frameworks, regulation, prebunking and simple verification reflexes.

Certification program

  1. Understanding Information Manipulation — 2 lessons, 29 min
  2. State Influence Operations — 2 lessons, 29 min
  3. Detect, Analyse and Respond — 2 lessons, 29 min

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