• 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.

March 2024

Doppelganger targets Ukrainian and French audiences via Facebook ads

by Valentin Châtelet, Roman Osadchuk

The latest iteration of the Russian information operation reveals an increasing sophistication in tactics against Ukraine and other audiences
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January 2024

How Ukraine fights Russian disinformation: Beehive vs mammoth

by Jakub Kalenský, Roman Osadchuk

Best practices in countering Russian disinformation, propaganda and information aggression, based on interviews with nearly two dozen Ukrainian practitioners
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December 2023

Massive Russian influence operation targeted former Ukrainian defense minister on TikTok

by Roman Osadchuk

Joint DFRLab-BBC Verify investigation exposes the largest information operation ever uncovered on the platform
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