• Nonresident Senior Fellow
  • Head of Investigations, Graphika

Ben Nimmo

Ben Nimmo is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) based in the United Kingdom.

Ben Nimmo studies online disinformation and influence operations, with a particular focus on cross-platform operations. He is Head of Investigations at Graphika and a nonresident senior fellow at DFRLab. A former wire journalist and NATO press officer, he began his analytical career by developing the 4D model (dismiss, distort, distract and dismay) to predict disinformation. He has since studied information operations, bots and online campaigns stemming from Russia, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil and the United States, among others. He speaks a number of languages including Russian and Latvian. When he has free time, he goes scuba diving. He lives in fear of the day a smartphone which works underwater will become available. (Profile picture: Alexander Coggin for the New York Times.)

May 2017

Russia’s Fake “Electronic Bomb”

by Ben Nimmo, Nika Aleksejeva, Donara Barojan

How a fake based on a parody spread to the Western mainstream
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May 2017

Hashtag Campaign: #MacronLeaks

by Ben Nimmo

Alt-right attacks Macron in last ditch effort to sway French Election
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May 2017

No Breakthrough for Le Pen’s Online Army

by Ben Nimmo, Maks Czuperski

French nationalists struggle to expand beyond their online base
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