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Russia during COVID-19: Information Warfare, Digital Passes and Digital Protest

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AutorAnya Orlova - Andrey Shcherbovich
Ocupação do AutorSociologist researching engagement of marginalized groups into Internet Policy processes and use of ICT - Associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law), in Moscow
Páginas81-88
81The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis
Since March 2020, Russia has been suspected of information warfare, that
is, proactive state propaganda and dissemination of the so-called “fake
news”, in response to the coronavirus crisis. This information war aims to
diminish and downplay the current state of coronavirus pandemic in Russia.
Russia and China, in particular,were accused1 of spreading online COVID-19
disinformation by a group of EU experts investigating disinformation and fake
news in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
Russian authorities have been alreadyblamed2by Russian and international
human rights organizations for information warfare practices, including cybere-
spionage, spreading fake news but also blocking and filtering specific content.
Meanwhile opposition/free journalism attempts to report on the COVID-19 pan-
demic in the country are being blocked. Laws on “fake news” and law which
prohibits the spread of fake information in light of COVID-19 — both of which
define “fake news/information” very vaguely and allow a state official to simply
claim that a news article is “fake news” to have it removed — are being used
used to do that.
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Anna Orlova
Andrey Shcherbovich
Russia during COVID-19: Information
warfare, Digital Passes and Digital
Protest
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