CIR Archives

Women in Activism, Media, and Politics Policies and Restrictions

May 14

OSINT: Improving equality to increase impact

A new study by CIR reveals that open source research is a field defined by innovation but also imbalance when it comes to gender equality. It presents concrete recommendations for how to strengthen gender sensitivity and inclusion as essential for relevant, accurate, and ethically grounded investigations.

Gendered Disinformation Women in Activism, Media, and Politics Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Oct 13

Holding our digital ground: Addressing gendered disinformation during elections and beyond

CIR explains how gendered disinformation works and provides actionable responses for governments and civil society.

Gender-Based Violence Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence LGBTQ+ Gendered Disinformation

Aug 6

How disinformation is increasingly weaponised against women and minority groups

A new CIR report explores the ins and outs of identity-based disinformation, demonstrating its online and offline impact on marginalised groups.

Disinformation Media

Jun 4

Mapping the media landscape in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories

CIR, together with Detector Media, reveal the network of actors behind the “media occupation” of Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories.

Displacement

Nov 25

NO CHOICE BUT TO FLEE – Starvation and Displacement in Central Equatoria, South Sudan

Since December 2014, the brutal civil war in South Sudan has created Africa’s largest refugee crisis. Based on UN figures, 400,000 South...

Sep 23

Parallel Worlds: How Russia is Imposing a New Reality on Kherson

Introducing the ‘Life under Occupation’ series Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to face Russian occupation in late February...

Apr 4

Report: The Separatist's Guide to Circumventing Sanctions

A new report from the Centre for Information Resilience lays out how a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme is helping leadership figures in the...

Disinformation

Nov 24

Revealed: "Real Sikh" influence network pushing Indian nationalism

A coordinated influence operation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is using fake personas acting as influencers within the Sikh...

Disinformation

Aug 5

Revealed: coordinated attempt to push pro-China, anti-Western narratives on social media

The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) today revealed a network of social media accounts that distort international perceptions on...

Disinformation Elections

May 4

How India is confronting disinformation on social media around the elections

CIR's Director of Investigations, Benjamin Strick, talked to NPR about how hashtags can be hijacked and manipulated with bias narratives...