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Social Network Websites, Kremlin Propaganda, and Internet Usage Patterns

PI: Golfo Alexopoulos, University of South Florida

Year selected for award: 2022

Social Network Websites, Kremlin Propaganda, and Internet Usage Patterns among Russians

Principal Investigator: Golfo Alexopoulos, University of South Florida

Co-Investigators: Mark Kramer, Harvard University and Nadia Boyadjieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Years of Award: 2023-2026

Managing Service Agency: Office of Naval Research

Project Description: 
The research team uses survey and social media data to explore how Russian speakers in the Russian Federation, Georgia, and Armenia interact with social network services, and to gauge the resonance of Kremlin disinformation, particularly anti-U.S. and anti-Western narratives.