Monitoring narratives and identifying bot farms on social networks

This compact module focuses on how to track propaganda narratives and detect coordinated inauthentic behavior specifically on Telegram and VK, using advanced search techniques, alternative search, and practical AI‑assisted workflows. Participants will learn to move from ad‑hoc channel browsing to systematic, reproducible analysis of large Telegram ecosystems relevant to Russia’s war, sanctions, foreign and domestic politics.

Lecturer: Pavel Bannikov, OSINT specialist.