Former French minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem recently proposed limiting the volume of data that can be used on the Internet to reduce informational risks, and even global warming. As far as climate r
Terrorism now fights in the perception dimension, using social media that offer them global reach to cheaply disseminate ever more shocking images, such as those of the GoPro cameras used by Hamas to
Words like "terrorist" have meaning, and their use must be analyzed as a symptom. Sometimes as a weak signal: in Mali, the whole strategy of the Bamako hawks has been to conflate the Tuareg rebellion
Russian disinformation is often said to be based on the so-called Gerasimov Doctrine even though, according to some analysts, Russian hybrid warfare is more precisely based on the Primakov Doctrine, w
For years, France has failed to fittingly assess informational risk in Africa, from the Central African Republic to Mali. The spreading of access to social media has enabled some actors, notably Russi
As broadband internet access begins to take hold in Africa, this brings both opportunities and risks, which suggests paying attention to informational risks: cindynic methodology describes these risks
In its fight against cyber-interference or information operations such as those carried out by Evgueny Prigozhin's conglomerate during the 2016 US elections, or more recently in Africa, especially in
The last Stanford and Graphika's joint report describing the takedown of Facebook accounts used for Russian information warfare draws attention to a cartoon targeting Central African children, and sho
While Russian information operations in Bangui rely on Facebook or school propaganda, radio stations and the press are also manipulated : these maneuvers are described in an instructive french report
On December 15, Facebook, the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika announced the takedown of accounts they attributed to Russian and French networks that published content relating to several Af