HomeCIDA – Center for Influence and Disinformation Analysis

With the aim of increasing the knowledge of influence operations and subversive actions by authoritarian regimes, the Stockholm Free World Forum has established the Center for Influence and Disinformation Analysis, CIDA.

CIDA will shed light on disinformation campaigns and other other influence operations targeting civil society, think tanks, business, the defence sector, media etc. The purpose of CIDA is to increase the resilience of free and democratic societies.

CIDA is a center under the Stockholm Free World Forum. It is managed by Patrik Oksanen.
 

Patrik Oksanen is a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum. He is an author and journalist with a background as a political editor,
programme anchor, reporter, project manager and head of news.

Patrik Oksanen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences.

Reports

How to better protect democratic elections – 12-point programme to strengthen democracy at election times
May 29, 2024
Today, electoral interference poses an increasingly significant threat to democracies worldwide, with the year 2024 being particularly vulnerable. The intensity and sophistication of these interference tactics are escalating alongside technological advancements. Disinformation ...

Tracking the Russian Hybrid Warfare – Cases From Nordic-Baltic Countries
May 27, 2024
In this report, the Stockholm Free World Forum has gathered experts from all Nordic-Baltic states to showcase examples of Russian hybrid attacks against our countries. Russia employs a broad variety of tools ...

TikTok: The Children’s Entertainment that Became a Security Concern
March 28, 2023
In a remarkably short span, the Chinese social media powerhouse, TikTok, has amassed a staggering one billion users. Its rapid ascent has not only posed a formidable challenge to Western platform giants ...

China’s attacks to silence critics
September 30, 2020
The Chinese State is attempting to coerce the West into implementing self-censorship through recurring attacks on individuals and institutions that defend human rights in China. The Embassy of the People’s Republic of ...

Controlling the Past
May 8, 2020
In the height of the Covid-19 crisis in Russia, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree making it a criminal offense to destroy war monuments both in Russia and abroad. Soon after, Sergei ...

Selected events

Panel Discussion: Disinformation And Malign Influence
June 1, 2021
The use of disinformation and malign influence has become a key tool in the attempts to weaken democracy and cooperation in the West. The pandemic has offered an opportunity to use the ...

Digital launch seminar: Chinese attacks to silence critics
September 30, 2020
The Chinese State is attempting to coerce the West into implementing self-censorship through recurring attacks on individuals and institutions that defend human rights in China. The Embassy of the People’s Republic of ...

Freeworld Connect VII: The Chinese Communist Party’s United Front
June 25, 2020
Today we broadcasted the 7th episode of Freeworld Connect, in which the focus lied on the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front and the experiences with its activity in Sweden and beyond. The ...

Freeworld Connect IV: The Russian Historical Revisionism
May 8, 2020
In the fourth episode of Freeworld Connect the focus lies on Russian historical revisionism and how it is being used as a power instrument for national strategy. The participants are Gudrun Persson, research leader at ...

Freeworld Connect I: Chinese desinformation and the Corona crisis
May 7, 2020
Stockholm Free World Forum launched Freeworld Connect on the 15th of April. The first broadcast highlights the topic of Chinese desinformation in the wake of the Corona crisis. The participants are experts Marcus ...
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