Influence campaigns in rich online information streams have the potential to shape political discourse and have driven conflict in a number of countries around the world. ESOC has built data on covert influence operations in a wide range of contexts, including disinformation campaigns targeting democratic elections and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Our work falls under three distinct tasks:

• Identifying and characterizing content generated as part of coordinated disinformation campaigns; 
• Develop tools to detect ongoing campaigns and use the data created by those tools to understand how influence campaigns are run;
• Catalogue the online influence efforts that have targeted more than 70 countries around the world since 2013.