• 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.)

March 2017

Lisa 2.0

by Ben Nimmo, Nika Aleksejeva

How pro-Kremlin media in Germany have been using a new fake to justify an old one
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March 2017

Le Pen’s (Small) Online Army

by Ben Nimmo, Nika Aleksejeva

How a French far-right group tried to break into Twitter’s trends
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March 2017

Solidarity arrest

by Ben Nimmo, Nika Aleksejeva

An open source investigation into a Russian security operation in Crimea
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