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Notes from the TacticalMediaRoom Signal group. 

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Network and Internet services

chaser: https://www.parisbeacon.com/ripe-ncc-shuts-down-exchange-platform-with-russia/ original: https://www.enog.org discussion: https://enog-apps-2.ripe.net/hyperkitty/list/discuss@enog.org/thread/XGEYIYQWC6MRZ2VXEERH3QLDFU7XFCSD/

Network

Internet Security

Gaza

Internet in Ukraine

www.kentik.com & https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-russification-of-ukrainian-ip-registration/

Internet in Russia

Journalism and Media

UKRAiNATV

  1. efir62 In this episode we will take a look at how people are adapting to live, find peace, and create in times of crisis. we're talking to Mykhailo Mazepa and Sofi Bondar about turning war barricades into furniture (architecture meets activism). Aircraft will share his synth-wave pop journey across Europe. Fat Frumos, the force behind Suck Puck Records, dives into the breakcore and rave scene ecstatic rituals. Beats'n'Beans will discuss their tea ceremonies and their upcoming appearance at UKRAiNATV during Unsound. Satin de Compostela previews one of the next efir editions which will be focused on rituals, magic, and spirituality in postindustrial world. We'll also connect with Norway and converse about our experiences during workshops in the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. And don't miss Sofia's tale of wrestling with Polish bureaucracy at the airport (real-life drama). It's a packed lineup, all about the gatherings and rituals that shape our lives. Yevgeniy Demydenko will set some tranquil vibes with his saxophone solo. To top it off Romek will unveil our plans for the 4TH SEASON @ UKRAiNATV and we’ll give stage to our one and only Gleb with his PINK CORE set.

Crisis reporting

File:Independent Russian Journalists Relief.pdf

Support for journalists, artists and scientists

  • Call for Applications: Display Europe Micro-Grants – European Cultural Foundation We invite individual journalists and small media organisations to apply for a micro-grant. https://culturalfoundation.eu/stories/call-for-applications-display-europe-micro-grants/
  • Commitee to protect journalists https://cpj.org/statements/
  • https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Funding - small individual grants for media and cyber activists in need/at risk
  • New media project initiated by international scientific community to open up the discussion in Russia and Ukraine about rebuilding of scientific life after the war. https://www.t-invariant.org/
  • Senior EU official calls for a ‘Radio Free Russia’ to help exiled media Vĕra Jourová says the bloc has a moral duty and the project would not necessarily mean a new station https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/senior-eu-official-calls-for-a-radio-free-russia-to-help-exiled-media?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  • https://twitter.com/sophiakornienko/status/1526655159203405825 - Got a reply from @EUparliament Human Rights chair @MariaArenaEU saying immediate measures to grant emergency visas to independent journos/ temp shelter in the EU is a priority. I know many independent Russian information workers have trouble accessing EU visas, grants denied! (17 05 2022)
  • It might be good to add a note somewhere in that list on how the same need is urgent for academics and cultural workers at risk (from Ru & Be, I’d say). No need to expand the initiative, a mere alert/extra sentence would help in flagging this broader need. (Ellen) We are writing an open letter to the ministry of foreign affairs in NL. I already mentioned this here, really need support in placing the letter. We are finishing it on Thursday (Kris)
  • The PEN Charter ~ PEN Ukraine PEN affirms that: Literature knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among people despite political or international upheavals. In all circumstances, and particularly in time of war, works - https://pen.org.ua/en/hartiya
  • GONG is a civil society organization founded in the 1997 to encourage citizens to participate more actively in the political process. GONG works on improvement of human and civil rights. GONG promotes culture of dialogue, openness, transparency and accountability in the public sphere through research, advocacy and education, individually or together with individuals and organizations who share GONG's values.www.youtube.com live:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkOUw6ldlzqMj8LYB71uZUA
  • https://twitter.com/sophiakornienko/status/1511714026044198914?s=21&t=AMrsglWqI0TpdOKwVMVCeQ I am doing art projects in support of the new JX Fund run by the Reporters without Borders. It’s a fun project involving animation and merch like T-shirts and All the frog it’s will go to the JX Fund.

Tools

https://dcomm.net.ua/

how to talk about the russian invasion

Resources

  • Webinar: Activists and NGOs under watch! Are you are in Europol’s databases? - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Digital rights experts will help activists, NGO workers and lawyers to request their data that is held by Europol. edri.org invite for lawyers, journalists, activists: https://edri.org/take-action/events/webinar-activists-and-ngo-europol-databases/

Threats to journalists and activists

Why is this an important topic for European journalists to cover? Simple - because from this research we know how russian secret services are integrated in the economic, public and politic systems in Europe. Also we see how random the choice of people to poison can be: opposition leaders, activists, journalists, former colleagues - it can be anyone. And they all move freely in Europe. They know where to get the information, they have access to data. This is worrying, and I think European media, journalists, investigators must give attention to this, because the European public must know these details about the regime Western leaders want to find peace with.

It is quite certain that these secret services have access to booking.com’s database in real time.The terror that since the russian revolutions is part of the state, is actually already in Europe. And European public - sand worse: politicians are choosing not to see it. 3 hour interview with Elena Kostyuchenko with english subs: https://youtu.be/CobxH2gH4pM

Our pols don't comprehend that there are those who laugh at our open society and vulnerability and see it as rot. Laughing, they send their kids to live here, get their health care here and drive a mercedes, and the irony of the contradiction is lost.


Publications, essays, presentations & reports

  • Application of the Risk Management Framework to Russian Disinformation Campaigns: During the first year of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine, social media companies enabled the Kremlin to run a large-scale disinformation campaign targeting the European Union and its allies, reaching an aggregate audience of at least 165 million and generating at least 16 billion views. Preliminary analysis suggests that the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c1d645d0-42f5-11ee-a8b8-01aa75ed71a1/language-de

The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist at the heart of the Oscar-tipped documentary describes the weeks he and his team spent in the besieged city – and why they were willing to take the risk

https://hcss.nl/report/how-wars-end-russia-ukraine/

Tactical Media Room

Desinformation

  • dataprint

  • datasprint

  • datasprint


Information wars

  • Wagner-baas: Russen proberen verkiezingen VS met ‘chirurgische precisie’ te beïnvloeden

Na jaren ontkennen heeft Jevgeni Prigozjin, de baas van het Russische huurlingenleger Wagner, toegegeven dat hij heeft geprobeerd de Amerikaanse ve...https://www.volkskrant.nl/a-b6d55dc5

  • An analysis of Dutch pro-Russia tweets — EOOH.eu https://eooh.eu/articles/analysis-of-dutch-pro-russia-tweets
  • TMRers we are trying to collect a list of TikTok accounts and hashtags that do the war, in case anyone has any tips. So far we haven't got too far 🤨 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g8gYKZxK8A9migkweIiktz24sNLvnS0aMEPRLBdkpE/edit#gid=q.
  • Yesterday in Belarus they closed a store that sold only books in Belarusian, as they were extremist books. And banned sale of 1984 book.
  • “…. The impact of propaganda is not easily reversible, and sometimes, it is not reversible at all. You may not realize it, of course, but this is, too, how propaganda works. When propaganda engages your unconscious, you may need years to decipher why this particular idea resonated so well with you. “ … similar to trauma , gaslighting, C-PTSD :(

Mensen van free russia gaan aan de demo meedoen hoor ik net An analysis of Dutch pro-Russia tweets — EOOH.eu https://eooh.eu/articles/analysis-of-dutch-pro-russia-tweets

"Blood on your hands" and other surprising anti-#Kremlin messages released by #Russian media outlets on #VictoryDay https://twitter.com/jamnewscaucasus/status/1523927947366875138?s=21&t=M0kSQR2uSsVAhohbYAI8IQ

Ukraine Propaganda

The propaganda war for Ukraine | DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ifShcUcfbU

Russia Propaganda

RT and Sputnik

SK: Blocking RT and Sputnik is not limiting access to information, as these are not independent media but weapons created and lavishly funded by the aggressor. It is blocking agressor state’s weapon on EU territory.
SK:I agree that the post-postmodernist reality has put us in front of a new challenge: while we used to have too little freedom of speech/ access to information and fought to gain more, we have now landed in a situation where we have access to so much information, growing exponentially, that we no longer have the mental capacity or time or resources to discern purposefully false and weaponized statements from true records. What we mostly need is media literacy (stop limiting children’s screen time, let them build up resilience, talk about disinformation) and accessible tools to debunk false information/ disinformation. It’s a huge and difficult dilemma, probably one of the worst of our time, alongside climate change. What I argue about is that now, with the war going on and hundreds of independent Russian journalists having a hard time getting the ends meet and desperately in need of our support, I find it strange that NGOs spend money and human resource on what is essentially helping the aggressor. I know this was not their goal, but this is unfortunately a perfect example of what Lenin called “useful idiots” (people in the West who assisted the bolsheviks without realizing it).

Ukraine

General

Fundraising and support


Collections for Ukraine

Inzamelplekken Oekraïne / collection points for Ukraine

Vind een inzamelpunt bij u in de buurt en doneer spullen aan Oekraïners in nood. / Find a collection point near you and donate items to Ukrainians in need.

Russia

"It is not just that the war was a bad idea, and should be stopped. A bully pulls strings, gets breathing space, rearms, and comes back stronger. Hell, even the office bully knows the rules here. How to influence public opinion that bullying must not be tolerated, and that what is different from you doesn't deserve to be wiped out?

However, it's a hard, and long road to remove centuries-long mentality of racism, genocide, sexism that Russians were raised with. This is a project for generations ahead, continuing after us. But we must make a start."

General

Russian Diaspora

Russian Resistance

The Russian political movement Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAR), along with Israel’s Human Rights Defenders Fund, has won the 2023 Aachen Peace Prize

Protests


The Netherlands

  • As independent media, we don't have to participate in the current Gleichshaltung. Apparently my fellow Dutch people need to be reminded about MH17. And the shameful #nietOnzeOorlog mentality Am I in the wrong country, and a populist is an outgrowth of the culture? I'm scared sometimes. Nope, I stay, and hold accountable. Here, Denys speaks directly, calling the prick a prick. https://youtu.be/d60xeI9n6WE?t=572
  • Wilders has threatened to deal with all of them at one point or another. During the campaign, he was silent on this part of his repertoire, in favour of talking about the cost of living and migration, but his party programme was as extreme as ever. Given that his BFF is Viktor Orbán, there is absolutely no reason to dismiss these threats as purely hypothetical." :https://sophieintveld.substack.com/p/the-hangover
  • Sunday 10 July: Poetin stoppen! Is FVD slopen! | IndyMedia

Stopping Putin means destroying the FvD! Sunday 10th of July, 13:00 The elitist conspiracy fascists from Forum voor Democratie will gather to show support to and celebrate their friend, dictator and mass murderer Putin! Together with the fascists of the AFD from Germany, the Russian ambassador and other! https://indymedia.nl/node/52254 More info: https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/07/07/dont-give-fascists-any-space-fvd-symposium-understanding-the-conflict-in-ukraine-on-july-10-amsterdam/

Events

Happening /Coming

Past

By DMT

STUDIO EVENT Mental Geology of Nuclear Threat & The Labor of Witnessing

August 25 | 18:00 (doors open 17:30) transmediale studio Free admission

Join us for a studio event organised by our current artist-in-residence Asia Badzdyrieva. The evening will bring together writers and curators - Svitlana Matviyenko, Elena Vogman, Olexii Kuchanskyi, and Johannes Bruder - to engage in conversation about the production and dissemination of images and affects within the mediated contexts of climate change and war. The event will comprise of two moderated conversations with a short break in between.

►https://transmediale.de/en/news/labor-of-witnessing

Against the backdrop of the war with Ukraine, the Russian government has sharply increased funding for state media, resulting in an unprecedented level of state propaganda spread on social media platforms. As a consequence, US and EU lawmakers and Ukrainian officials have jolted into action by pressuring social media platforms in an attempt to curb Russian misinformation. This seems to be a watershed moment regarding freedom of the press and internet freedom. We discuss what is at stake with internet activists and journalists directly involved in war-news production. https://www.spui25.nl/programma/the-european-internet-blockade-of-russian-propagandist-media

  • Van fact-checking tot argument-checking

Nieuwsverslaggeving lijkt steeds meer op een vorm van oorlog: feiten worden gepareerd met ‘alternatieve feiten’, fake news bestookt voortdurend de mainstream media, en men spreekt zelfs van ‘informatieoorlog’ of ‘informatieterreur’. Kunnen we aan de taal van journalisten en mediaorganisaties nog aflezen of het klopt wat ze zeggen, of is dat onmogelijk geworden? En wat kunnen we doen om de situatie te verbeteren? Vier experts op het gebied van het bestrijden van desinformatie gaan hierover met elkaar in gesprek. https://spui25.nl/programma/van-fact-checking-tot-argument-checking

by OTHERS

Presentations of interest to TMR, at RIPE84

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