Digital Disinformation

Peter Chew is the President and owner of Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., a consulting company in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a focus on national security. His specialty is in data analytics. Peter has previously worked in a research capacity for the U.S. national laboratories, and as an auditor for Price Waterhouse, where his assignments included field audits of Russian oil and gas companies. Peter's education is a D.Phil. in Russian computational linguistics at the University of Oxford (where he was a recipient of a British Academy scholarship) and a B.A. in Russian and Polish language and literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London), where he earned distinctions in linguistics. Peter has authored and co-authored many articles, primarily in the field of computational linguistics. In the area of finance, where he has also applied his analytical skills, Peter is also a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. Peter is fluent in Russian and competent in Polish.

Information Maneuvers in and around Ukraine: What is Really Driving Conflict with Russia?.- Background.- Issues surrounding Ukraine.-  What does social media say about the issues?.- Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications.- Information Maneuvers in the Baltic region.- A distillation of multiple threat assessments and perspectives.-  Analysis of social media landscape.- Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications.- Information Maneuvers in and around Poland: Historical Revisionism and Rule of Law.-  Background.- Current issues surrounding Poland.- Analysis of social media landscape in Poland versus East Slavdom.- Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications.- References.- Information Maneuvers for Soviet Union 2.0.- Background.- Features of everyday Soviet life in the twentieth century.-  Social media analysis.- Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications.- Finding and Analyzing Information Maneuvers on the Fringe.- Fringe narratives: an illustrative example involving Russia and its Eurasian ambitions.-  The 'brotherhood of nations' - a historical pattern, not an anomaly.- Eurasian integration: coming in the near future?.-  How can we analyze fringe beliefs?.- Demonstration and technical implementation.- Conclusions.- Russian media narratives on Ukraine in 2022:a computational analysis.-  Background.- Data used for this report, and method of collection.- Our approach: signal processing (and SVD) fundamentals.- Key narratives in 2022 in Russian media.- What's 'mainstream' and what's 'fringe' in Russian media?.- How topics changed over time in Russian media.- Conclusions.