Yevhen Popov - Putin's Regime Disinfo has Exploited Vulnerabilities of Global Social Media Platforms

The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific stories and narratives. But they are not alone once developed the same techniques can be used by other powers, international and local to subvert democratic institutions and to warp public perception of the news and politics in their countries. The mechanics of disinformation operations are often counter-intuitive – and we’ll unpack this topic in today’s episode.
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Yevhen Popov is an information security specialist from Ukraine. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he focused on countering disinformation. He works with Osavul, AI-powered security software, designed to fight against information threats. Yevhen has worked as the head of the Southern Ukrainian office of the International Renaissance Foundation (Part of the Soros Foundation family). As a consultant and researcher, Yevhen cooperated with the European Endowment for Democracy (Brussels), Alliance of Democracy (Copenhagen), ZOIS (Berlin) Democracy Study Centre (Kyiv), and many others. Yevhen is also a co-founder of the Politscanner.app and the most significant voting advice application in Ukraine - iVote.com.ua
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevhen-popov/
https://www.osavul.cloud/
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