Austern, MorganeStefak, Ostap2026-01-1320242025-06-112024Stefak, Ostap. 2024. The Kremlin’s Conundrum: Telegram as Russia’s Information Battlefield. Bachelors Thesis, Harvard University Engineering and Applied Sciences.31144239https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42725010The project of this thesis is to investigate the dynamics of communication within Russian on a popular online social media platform, in the context of the Ukraine- Russia war. The investigation is structured around three directions: (1) influence, (2) communities, and (3) assessing the causal impact of a government intervention in the informational space. The individuals that make up our dataset are generally well-established actors in the Russian informational space, with their identity ranging from public figures, to members of the government, to anonymous individuals who have amassed a significant online following.application/pdfenApplied mathematicsThesis or Dissertation2026-01-13