3.1.3. Facebook

The authors of the mentioned articles are listed in Annex 21.

Audience reaction

On average, a post on this topic has 900 views.

For integrated indicator of active audience response (the amount of likes, comments and reposts) the most attention of the audience reached posts that contained the following statements:

• Ukraine is the world’s nuclear landfill;

• Russia is the only country that effectively opposes the United States in the nuclear field;

• American nuclear fuel for Ukrainian NPP - a manmade disaster.

Detailed information on popular posts shown in Annex 22 .

Assessing the effectiveness of Russian propaganda to discredit International asisstance in the field of nuclear safety is currently problematic due to the lack of sociological research in this area in Ukraine, which would show the level of support of the propaganda and the dynamics of its changes depending on the quantity and quality of materials. the only survey was commissioned by the State Nuclear Regulatory Agency of Ukraine in 2019 by interviewing citizens on the street - the final video provided only the answers of 7 people, the overall results are unknown

Intensity of influence

This indicator is estimated as low and (234 posts in 5 years), which is probably due to the removal of most posts on this topic for such a long period.

The most active groups and accounts that are listed in Annexes 23, 24.

3.1.3. Facebook

There are 81posts with discrediting content on the topic of the research.

Posts are published on 21 public pages and 49 accounts.

It was interesting to analyze is the geographical factor when looking into the Facebook accounts (unlike VKontakte, where the vast majority of users are based in Russia).

Among the 49 identified accounts:

4 - location is not specified;

18 - RF;

15 - in Ukraine (mostly pro-Russian);

2 - in the occupied territory of Crimea,

3 - on the territory of the CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Armenia, Moldova)

7 - on the territory of other countries of the world (6 - natives of the countries of the former USSR ).