Causes, contents and consequences model

This deliverable will produce insights from various fields of the social and behavioural sciences that will be assimilated so that VIGILANT is designed to reflect a whole-of-society (rather than merely technological) understanding of disinformation campaigns. This includes, amongst other factors, analysis of online misogyny and gendered disinformation (National Democratic Institute, 2020), as part of online violence against women. Through literature review, conceptual models will be developed to represent key elements of disinformation campaigns, such as creation, intent, dissemination, content characteristics, audience characteristics, subsequent effects, contextual influences and relevant interventions. The elements in these models will be used to support development of the analysis tools in WP4 and WP5, especially the Impact analysis tool (T5.1) and the Intervention support tool (T5.2).