Iryna Subota - Hybrid Warfare Threats - Science of Countering Russian Disinformation and Aggression.

The first thing Russians do in territories they have conquered, is to  take over the media – television, newspapers, and internet. That’s no  coincidence. Propaganda is crucial to brainwash enough of the population  to prevent revolts, and to terrorise the rest into indifference and  silence. Today I am looking at the hybrid threats that have been facing  Ukraine since 2014, and the role of a resilient media in countering  Russian disinformation and aggression.    Iryna Subota is Head of Data Analytics at the Centre for Strategic  Communications and Information Security and is a Ph.D. student of Media  and Communication Studies program at the National University of  Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and lecturer of educational programs on the  development of media literacy and countering information threats. She  researches the topics of information warfare, propaganda,  disinformation, fake news, and media manipulative technologies. Iryna  specializes in fact-checking, information verification, and media  literacy.