• Resident Fellow

Roman Osadchuk

Roman Osadchuk is a Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab with over five years of experience. His research focuses on disinformation in Ukraine and neighboring countries. He is the author of multiple investigations and reports on disinformation, influence campaigns, and computational propaganda, which uncover the tactics and techniques of malign actors.

He is also a senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where he teaches bachelor and master courses on propaganda effects and open-source investigations. Before joining DFRLab, he held several positions at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC), where he was involved in communications of decentralization reform and administrative support to the NGO’s internal operations.

Previously, Roman received an MPA degree from the Maxwell School on a Fulbright scholarship, where he focused on information policy. He also holds master’s degrees in computer science from Kryvyi Rih National University and in political science from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where Roman focused on information policy and researched the role of information policy and the media cycle in the spread of disinformation.

September 2024

Doppelganger: How Russia mimicked real news sites and created fake ones to target US audiences

by Roman Osadchuk, Andy Carvin

Malign Russian information operation created websites posing as the Washington Post and FOX News as well as niche sites targeting US audiences
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September 2024

Explainer: the Russian influence operations targeting the 2024 US elections

by Roman Osadchuk, Eto Buziashvili

The September 2024 deplatforming of Operation Doppelganger demonstrates how US voters are being targeted by Russian influence operations
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July 2024

AI tools usage for disinformation in the war in Ukraine

by Roman Osadchuk

How and what technology Russia used to spread disinformation after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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