{"id":174385,"date":"2021-04-09T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=174385"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:21:34","slug":"university-of-warsaw-to-research-disinformation-campaigns-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/university-of-warsaw-to-research-disinformation-campaigns-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Warsaw to research disinformation campaigns during the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In\u00a0a pandemic COVID-19 there was a significant increase in the dissemination of false or misleading or\u00a0confusion deliberately or accidentally information \u2013 says a recent study by Dr Kacper Grado\u0144 from the\u00a0Center for Forensic Science at the University of Warsaw (UW).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-We are dealing with a\u00a0situation in\u00a0which we can observe a constant increase in the range and importance of electronic media, and we\u00a0experience an unprecedented\u00a0global epidemiological threat with all its social, economic and\u00a0political consequences &#8211; says Dr\u00a0Grado\u0144 and notes that this becomes an ideal breeding ground for various conspiracy theories, increases the propaganda activity of a wide range of extremist movements, and\u00a0provides excellent opportunities for organized state &#8211; campaigns in the\u00a0field of information warfare, in\u00a0which the Russian Federation and China specialize.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researcher from the University of Warsaw, disinformation campaigns carried out by states may serve the implementation of their strategic, geopolitical goals.\u00a0In the\u00a0case of Russia, it is primarily a practical implementation of a hybrid war, the so-called\u00a0Gerasimov&#8217;s doctrine, and the\u00a0destabilization of Western societies.\u00a0In the\u00a0case of China, the motivation is to become a key world political and economic superpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0a pandemic COVID-19 there was a significant increase in the dissemination of false or misleading or\u00a0confusion deliberately or accidentally information \u2013 says a recent study by Dr Kacper Grado\u0144 from the\u00a0Center for Forensic Science at the University of Warsaw (UW).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -We are dealing with a\u00a0situation in\u00a0which we can observe a constant increase in the range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}