Preparing a world post-ruSSia

Is there a tool recording who supported Putin's criminal regime?

This excellent remark by

Andrew Pavelyev

deserved some more digging, which I will do here:

I wonder if posts on social media (including especially on Russian social media) are being saved in some archive. It would be nice to have some centralized effort to analyze them with AI and create a database of who was saying what, lest like in Germany after 1945 nobody later admits supporting the criminal regime.

I am convinced proper justice for the victims of this horrendous war will be paramount to avoid it from repeating itself and for a real peace to last. We should and must definitely do a better job at that than we did in 1945. This idea by Andrew deserves execution. So I did a bit of searching and found this project:

The Russian Social Media Influence (RUSI) Dataset is a project conducted by the RAND Corporation to understand and counteract Russian propaganda on social media. This project examines the methods used by Russia to influence former Soviet states and other regions, employing various tactics such as troll and bot social media accounts, fake hashtag campaigns, and non-attributed comments on web pages. The detailed report and further information here​ (RAND Research)​. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any sign that this was still ongoing. Still interesting, though.

I also found these OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) projects:

1. Bellingcat: An independent international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe various subjects, including conflicts, crimes, and disinformation.

2. DFRLab: The Digital Forensic Research Lab by the Atlantic Council, which focuses on identifying, exposing, and explaining disinformation in real-time.

I know Bellingcat regularly organises workshops on how to leverage open-source technology to build useful OSINT solutions. They refer to Mnemonic and the Ukrainian Archive project: https://ukrainianarchive.org