DEU-ISR Research Cooperation: KIMONO

Influence and disinformation campaigns can manipulate and influence people and thus lead to a massive weakening of trust in democracy and its constitutional principles as well as trust in freedom of expression. In addition, there is a risk that state actors will use influencing campaigns in social media specifically to destabilize opposing states (hybrid warfare). It is therefore essential to recognize these campaigns as early as possible and to track their development and spread in order to ultimately be able to initiate suitable countermeasures. The focus of the research work is therefore on campaign identification, monitoring and classification using social media mining methods for integration into an AI-based early warning system.