Nad’a Kovalčíková
In today’s security landscape, foreign interference (1) has become a pervasive threat. Hostile actors are infiltrating everything from social media to government websites, targeting trade secrets, and posing an increasing risk to critical infrastructure systems. This requires heightened vigilance and concerted efforts to detect, expose and counter these malign activities. The impact of intentional and harmful interference operations is amplified when wielded simultaneously across diverse societal sectors. Therefore, it is crucial to devise cross-sectoral frameworks, tools and responses and examine specific incidents of foreign interference, in order to address critical threat vectors.
In April this year, with the US presidential elections looming on the horizon and Russia’s war against Ukraine having entered its third year, yet another episode of foreign interference was detected. The viral clip, containing false claims about a Kyiv troll farm attempting to interfere in the US elections (2), aimed to discredit the Ukrainian authorities. This incident was part of a larger campaign conducted by a group of disinformation experts connected to Russia’s Internet Research Agency. These hostile actors are deploying increasingly sophisticated technology to disrupt Western democracies and their allies, and fabricating and spreading manipulated audio-video content online.
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