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Annotated Bibliography

 * 1) Missiroli, Antonio, et al. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE EAST. European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), 2016, pp. 7–24, Strategic Communications: East and South, www.jstor.org/stable/resrep07092.5. Accessed 30 Apr. 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep07092.5?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Sputnik&searchText=news&searchText=agency&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DSputnik%2Bnews%2Bagency&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5152%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A84189aeb6aa52bce4544192a5f65c121&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents    This article provided me detailed information on how Sputnik was created; I used it in the "Foundation" section for Sputnik (news agency). I added a detail that it was funded by the Russian government, in addition to it being owned and operated by the Russian government.
 * 2) "Measuring the reach of "fake news" and online disinformation in Europe". Digital News Report. Retrieved 2020-04-29. http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2018/measuring-reach-fake-news-online-disinformation-europe/   This article was important source that allowed me to write the extra sentence in the "International bans and restrictions" section. I wrote how Sputnik and RT were caught by the East StratCom Task Force caught them for publishing disinformation.
 * 3) Benková, Lívia. "The Rise of Russian Disinformation in Europe." (2018). https://www.aies.at/download/2018/AIES-Fokus_2018-03.pdf   This article provided me with additional information on what Facebook and Google had done to reduce the increase of disinformation on their platforms due to Russian disinformation campaigns. I added to the designated section for "Twitter and Facebook", though I would be interested in changing the heading title to "Social Media".
 * 4) Yoldas, Deniz. (2019). EU -Russia Information War, Human Right, and Democracy -Fake news, Fact-checking, Conspiracy Theories and Hate-speech in post-Truth and Illiberal Democracies Age. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deniz_Yoldas/publication/336148909_EU_-Russia_Information_War_Human_Right_and_Democracy_-Fake_news_Fact-checking_Conspiracy_Theories_and_Hate-speech_in_post-Truth_and_Illiberal_Democracies_Age/links/5d9306d7299bf10cff1cd98a/EU-Russia-Information-War-Human-Right-and-Democracy-Fake-news-Fact-checking-Conspiracy-Theories-and-Hate-speech-in-post-Truth-and-Illiberal-Democracies-Age.pdf  This publication and #5, provided me additional information to added to the end of "European coverages and responses". I added a section for how the East StratCom Task Force was created and how it was in particular to stop Russian disinformation campaigns throughout the EU.
 * 5) "About". EU vs DISINFORMATION. Retrieved 2020-04-30. https://euvsdisinfo.eu/about/  I retrieved the date on when the East StratCom Task Force was established and to confirm that their efforts were indeed to reduce the spread disinformation by Russian campaigns.
 * 6) Kragh, Martin; Åsberg, Sebastian (2017-09-19). "Russia's strategy for influence through public diplomacy and active measures: the Swedish case". Journal of Strategic Studies. 40 (6): 773–816. doi:10.1080/01402390.2016.1273830. ISSN 0140-2390. This source provided me additional information on the Swedish Sputnik and what it did in the past. I used it for the section "European coverages and responses".
 * 7) Watanabe, Kohei. "Conspiracist propaganda: How Russia promotes anti-establishment sentiment online." ECPR General Conference, Hamburg. 2018. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7a3e/be6eef4da1d31a1f73abd4aa89fc9196743f.pdf This source provided me a little bit of information on how Swedish Sputnik was trying to influence its public's perception against its government and the EU. I included it in "European coverages and responses".
 * 8) Jensen, Donald N. "11. Russia in the Middle East: A New Front in the Information War?." RUSSIA IN THE (2018): 265. https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Russia-in-the-Middle-East-online.pdf?x75907#page=278 . This source was used to build and write the section for Sputnik in the Middle East, and Sputniks involvement in the Syrian regime attacks that were occurring.
 * 9) Czuperski, Maksymilian, et al. Disinformation. Atlantic Council, 2017, pp. 54–61, Breaking Aleppo, www.jstor.org/stable/resrep03700.14. Accessed 15 May 2020. This source was used for Middle East Coverage to add information about Sputnik publishing unreliable sources in the Middle East and what they published about the White Helmets.
 * 10) Godzimirski, Jakub M., and Malin Østevik. "How to understand and deal with Russian strategic communication measures?." https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b971/0543074e31d71fb8b3323f4faaa5bfc93d74.pdf