The project aims to identify coordinated activity promoting disinformation, hate and extremist content related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Telegram channels. The approach involves collecting data from fact-checking sources, identifying frequent misinformation-sharing news outlets, searching for their instances on Telegram over-time, and scraping relevant suspicious channels. Quantitative analysis (statistics, network graphs) and qualitative analysis (bridging/aggregating channels, information cascades) is being performed to understand the dissemination patterns, key influencers, frequency and coordination in posting behavior across the network.

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