Securitization of Disinformation in NATO’s Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis

In addition, the study suggests that the recent disinformation agenda is, in fact, a continuity of NATO’s long-standing Russia- focused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO’s mission. [...] The foreign policy use of such terms predates the 2016 US elections and proliferated after the Russian military involvement in Crimea and Donbas.9 The primary reason for this contextual proliferation was the Russian decision to deny the initial stages of both its involvement in Ukraine and its broader strategy of distracting and dividing Western attention over Russian military operations.10 There. [...] Rivers, “Discursive Deflection: Accusation of ‘Fake News’ and the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation in the Tweets of President Trump,” Social Media + Society 4, no. [...] The logic of interpreting how disinformation gets securitized by relying on NATO documents is two-fold: first, NATO has been evolving to find new raisons d’être since the end of the Cold War and has sought to capitalize on the securitization of new threats, such as terrorism, cybersecurity, Syria, and forced migration.38 Disinformation and information war are two of the recent additions to this th. [...] “Discursive Deflection: Accusation of ‘Fake News’ and the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation in the Tweets of President Trump.” Social Media + Society 4, no.