The information narrative: bots, trolls and the structure of political discourse

On 5 March 2019, the meeting on democracy and disinformation #DisinfoWeek Madrid 2019, organised by the Fundación Rafael del Pino, the Atlantic Council, the US Embassy and the United States Mission to the European Union, was held with the participation of Ana de Palacio, strategic advisor to the Albright Stonebridge Group and director of the Atlantic Council; Alexandre Alaphilippe, Executive Director of EU DisinfoLab; Daniel Fried, Senior Research Fellow at the Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Nicolás de Pedro, Research Fellow at The Institute for Statecraft; Kadri Kaska, Legal Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence; and David Alandete, journalist at ABC.

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