Professor Sahar Aziz provides her analysis about a recent report by disinformation researchers Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza that revealed a multi-platform global influence campaign promoting anti-Muslim hate and sectarianism. The report highlights the use of disinformation to spread a neoconservative agenda, including xenophobic, anti-immigration, and anti-Muslim propaganda and disinformation. Against the backdrop of the war on Gaza; and a series of consequential elections in Europe and the United States (U.S.), the campaigns fall under broader attempts to shape public opinion using hate speech. It is one of the largest known influence campaigns regarding Meta advertisement spending to target the European Union (EU).
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