Visualising influence Information bubbles and ideological proximities on Czech, Hungarian & Slovak Facebook
Jonáš Syrovátka / 18 Nov 2020
Disinformation continues to be one of the greatest challenges the Western democracies currently face, testing their integrity, cohesion and resilience. With social networks representing an important medium when it comes to their spreading, it is important to understand how exactly disinformation manifests itself when it comes to the way it circulates on the network and influences its users.
The unique case study offers a comprehensive overview of the Facebook information landscape in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. By utilizing advanced AI tool Graphika it was possible to identify the main pro-Russian actors and assess their position in the Facebook landscape of respective countries. Read the resulting study in English.