• Research Associate, Eurasia

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.

December 2024

How inauthentic accounts exploit Telegram comments to spread anti-Ukrainian narratives

by Roman Osadchuk, Iryna Adam, Givi Gigitashvili, Meredith Furbish

Analysis of more than 580,000 comments shows pattern of narrative attacks amplified via coordinated behavior; additional instances appeared in Facebook comments
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November 2024

Russian milbloggers employed nuclear scare tactics following Ukrainian incursion of Kursk

by Roman Osadchuk, Iryna Adam

Telegram channels claimed that Ukraine intended to attack Russian nuclear power plants, then exploited a site visit by IAEA Director Rafael Grossi
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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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