
Siim Kumpas ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ
@siimkumpas
Policy Officer at the @eu_eeas. Interested in building resilience to foreign information manipulation. Views here are my own.
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Thanks for having us: Ein Tag voller spannender Gesprรคche bei der EU-Kommission mit Natasha Bertaud Anitta Hipper Siim Kumpas ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ Katrin Abele Renate Nikolay





So youโre about to head off for a well-deserved annual leave & are looking for something to read at [enter a location], but Nordic noir & rom-com are not really youโre genres? Weโve got you covered. Hereโs a list of summer reading for #disinfo aficionados interested in research.



Where do memes originally come from? Know Your Meme broke down a decade-plus of meme origin data. In 2011, YouTube & 4chan accounted for almost 2/3 of memes. By 2021, Twitter (33%) & TikTok (30%) had taken over the scene with YouTube in the 3rd place (11%). knowyourmeme.com/editorials/insโฆ


Interesting findings by Joshua Tucker et al: 1. most Twitter users don't follow/engage w/ any political elites online; 2. those who do, do so extremely one-sidedly; 3. both conservatives & liberals are much more likely to follow in-group vs out-group elites. science.org/doi/10.1126/scโฆ

It's often claimed w/o any evidence that deplatforming is useless โ if not harmful โ, as most users supposedly migrate to other platforms that have less rules & oversight, making radicalisation easier. These authors found the opposite to be the case. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfโฆ




Please join #Latvia #Lithuania and #Estonia for the Baltic Symposium 2023: How the Baltics are changing #Europe ๐27 March 2023 โก๏ธtinyurl.com/45wkzhf5 Estonian panellists are: Tony Lawrence (ICDS Tallinn), Eero Janson (Estonian Refugee Council), Siim Kumpas ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ (European External Action Service - EEAS ๐ช๐บ)



Timely topic, interesting co-panellists & excellently engaged audience. Thank you UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies & Estonian Embassy UK for making the Baltic Symposium 2023 happen!

Brilliant panels UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies Baltic Symposium 2023: How the #Baltics are shaping Europe. Insightful conversations about the changing architecture of #security in Europe, communication and media in wartime and the humanitarian response to the war in #Ukraine in the Baltic countries




Our work on EUvsDisinfo has earned us many "honorary titles" from the Kremlin #disinformation peddlers: ๐ซ"EU propaganda outlet" ๐ซ"Ministry of Truth" ๐ซ"EU fake news agency" But this is what we actually do! Subscribe on YT to learn more: youtube.com/@euvsdisinfo #DontBeDeceived