Information Warfare & Propaganda Studies experts
Scholars/Researchers who write on information warfare, covert operations or propaganda, inc. disinfo, deception. Not comprehensive - I prioritised scholars who seem to have been left off some 'disinformation' / cyber lists that often include high profile accounts & journalists.
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@emmalbriant.bsky.social
@whitneyphillips.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com
@garydrawnsley.bsky.social
Head of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Has Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine & mine alone.
@rondeibert.bsky.social
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR University of Edinburgh AI & MEMORY https://tinyurl.com/2znk9jy7 https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War €2.2M, 5 year project https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
@rod-dacombe.bsky.social
Head of the Department of Political Economy at KCL. Conspiracy theories and democracy. Former 🚒🚑
@maudinet.bsky.social
PhD, Research Fellow @irsem.bsky.social, teaching @uparisnanterre.bsky.social ▪️Russian Politics & Media ▪️Influence, Foreign Policy & Authoritarianism Co-founder @coruscant-eu.bsky.social Publications: https://irsem.academia.edu/MaximeAudinet
@colingerard.bsky.social
Team Leader @viginum.bsky.social PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
@clementrenault.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow in Intelligence, War & Strategy @irsem.bsky.social Visiting Fellow @kcsi.uk & Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po (PSIA) 📚 I ✍️ about Espionage🕵️ in the Information Age 📡 🛰️
@goranbolin.bsky.social
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University sh.se/mkv
@trevordavis-usa.bsky.social
Exploring the forces shaping misinformation and institutional trust: uncovering the incentives, disincentives, and impacts driving systemic challenges. Notre Dame research scientist.
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@fittarelli.com
Sr. Researcher @citizenlab.ca, Disinformation & Harassment. Fmr. Meta. Trainer: find & expose covert influence. I like doers.
@sanjanah.bsky.social
Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
@paulmcgarr.bsky.social
Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
@drnomyn.bsky.social
Political sociologist using the Digital Humanities. Identifying propaganda in Education. Theory of crisis. Associate Professor. Gardener. Reader. Artist. Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia
@rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social
Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism. New article on space, time, memory, and distortion in VR: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241283895
@paullashmar.bsky.social
Dr Paul Lashmar, Journalist and Reader at CityStGs UoL. HoD (2019-2021) Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
@beccalew.bsky.social
Postdoctoral scholar @ Stanford. I research the history of the right in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com. She/her
@maargentino.com
Counterterrorism | Esotericism | Conspiracy Theories | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Wehret den Anfängen A mix of a caffeinated conspiracy theorist and a wise owl, perched atop a mountain of esotericism.
@abradschwartz.bsky.social
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; BROADCAST HYSTERIA. History PhD Candidate at Princeton.
@equusonthebuses.bsky.social
Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
@joemcreynolds.bsky.social
Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Information Warfare (2023). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
@drmarkjacobson.bsky.social
Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
@jaysonharsin.bsky.social
Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
@tonyingesson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
@matthewsussex.bsky.social
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
@benoloughlin.bsky.social
Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | AI and political agency
@lucatrenta.bsky.social
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host of the Out of the Shadows Project Podcast. Follow The Brush Contact Substack for more.
@attorneynora.bsky.social
law, tech, freedom, democracy | now: @freepress, past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU. ATL | LA | NYC www.norabenavidez.com
@mattschrader.bsky.social
Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff. Opinions are not my employer's.
@stepru.com
Founder InstituteCI.com • MA Credibility, MBA Int'l Marketing & Economics, PhDc (Asia) Influence, Disinformation, Propaganda • Uni lecturer & researcher in Montreal & HongKong • Disrupter-in-Chief when it comes to credibility, influence, persuasion.
@luceriluc.bsky.social
Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI 🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
@carlosdiazruiz.com
Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media. Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research." https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
@jsrailton.bsky.social
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
@emilarchambault.bsky.social
Postdoc / chercheur postdoctoral, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. Researching remote war, armed drones, OSINT investigations / recherches sur la guerre à distance, les drones armés, enquêtes OSINT. Compte bilingue.
@vortexegg.com
Information crisis psychopomp. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge. Information scientist, technologist, and researcher. Disinformation and extremism hater. Opinions my own, not a work account.
@ftripodi.bsky.social
Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online https://ftripodi.com/
@timothyjgraham.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
@heiditworek.bsky.social
Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@jolukito.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UT-Austin's School for Journalism and Media | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
@rorycormac.bsky.social
Professor: Intelligence, Covert Action | Author: Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, and Dagger
@jagolinzer.bsky.social
Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, University of Cambridge Research in: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
@jfarkas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
@newsprof1.bsky.social
Academic Lead of Media and Comms Research Cluster at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
@emmalbriant.bsky.social
International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof, University of Notre Dame; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge, UK; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Speaker; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕