Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week –

1. ‘Glory to the Heroes’: Ukraine’s war for narrative credibility (Georgetown University)
2. Why You Haven’t Heard About the Secret Cyberwar in Ukraine (The New York Times)
3. Ukrainian influencers bring the frontlines to TikTok (The Verge)
4. What China’s Social Media Is Saying About Ukraine (The Atlantic)
5. The desperate people of Ukraine need help, not self-satisfied social media posts (The Guardian)
6. Ukraine prepares potential move of sensitive data to another country (Reuters)
7. In the Ukraine Conflict, Fake Fact-Checks Are Being Used to Spread Disinformation (ProPublica)
8. China’s state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia’s line on war (Axios)
9. PayPal is making more features freely available to Ukrainians (The Verge)

Some light reading- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Graham Alison and Philip Zelikow