A network of activists that will fight pro-Kremlin disinformation has been formed in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center. Similar networks already exist in other European countries, where they coordinate to push back against Russian disinformation and influence operations. What follows is a translation of the news release by UCMC.
Baltic “elves” launch online database of pro-Russian trolls to tackle propaganda[/boxright] The first elves appeared in Lithuania in 2014, when local activists decided to unite to give an organized rebuff to Russian information attacks against Lithuania, Ukraine, and other democracies. The movement, which includes people with different professional and life experiences, has grown to include about 40,000 Lithuanians, and then residents of other countries, who voluntarily and on a voluntary basis invest time and effort in the struggle for the integrity of the information space. Ukrainians need no exlanations that information manipulations and propaganda pose a direct threat to state security and the well-being of Ukrainians, so they have always made their own contribution to the fight against Russian interference -- online and offline. Now we have borrowed the Lithuanian experience and created our own network of activists, which covers 8 regions from Kyiv to Donetsk oblasts and will only grow - and with it the resilience of Ukrainian society.
