Methodology Notes
These are the background case notes complied for Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global
Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this
content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data
from over 1300 sources organized by country. The sources include high quality news articles,
academic papers, white papers, and a range of other grey literature. As an annotated
bibliography, the country cases here make use of significant passages from these secondary
sources, and every effort has been made to preserve full citation details for future researchers.
The full list of references can be found in our public Zotero folder.
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