Analyze Disinformation and Influence Operations
Disinformation: Detecting, Collecting and Analyzing is a three-day specialist course designed for practitioners working in environments where false or manipulated information can influence decisions, behavior and outcomes.
Modern disinformation operations are deliberate and organized, using tactics such as bot networks, coordinated inauthentic behavior and synthetic media to achieve strategic objectives. These campaigns exploit online platforms to amplify narratives, shape perception and create confusion at scale.
This course develops the capability to identify, collect, and analyze disinformation campaigns using structured, tool-agnostic methodologies. Participants learn how to detect inauthentic content, understand actor intent, and assess the impact of narratives, enabling more informed and timely responses.
Available via instructor-led delivery. A self-paced, on-demand alternative is available through the OSINT Combine Academy (Disinformation: Detecting, Collecting and Analyzing).
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the definitions and types of inauthentic content, influence operations and information manipulation
- Identify tactics and techniques used by state and non-state actors to create, disseminate and amplify false narratives
- Analyze the intent and strategic objectives behind disinformation campaigns and influence operations
- Apply structured methodologies to collect and track disinformation across social media platforms and online ecosystems
- Evaluate the reliability, credibility and intent of sources, including assessing provenance, agenda and messaging
- Apply data analysis and visualization techniques to analyze disinformation networks and campaigns
Strengthen Decision-Making on Disinformation Risks
This course delivers practical outcomes that improve how organizations identify, interpret, and respond to disinformation and influence activity.
Enhance Situational Awareness
Identify and track disinformation campaigns to build a clearer understanding of narratives, actors and emerging risks. Support clearer, more defensible judgments when information integrity is uncertain.
Strengthen Analytical Confidence
Improve how manipulated, biased, and unreliable information is assessed. Strengthen the ability to interpret and prioritize information in contested environments.
Increase Investigation Effectiveness
Enable more effective detection and analysis of disinformation activity using structured investigative approaches. Support earlier identification of campaigns that may impact operations or decision-making.
Build Insight on Influence Activity
Understand the motivations and strategic goals behind disinformation campaigns. Provide clearer insight into how and why false narratives may influence decisions, behavior and outcomes to support more informed responses.
Reduce Operational Risk
Identify and assess risks posed by disinformation to operations, reputation and decision-making. Strengthen organizational resilience in environments shaped by information manipulation.
Course FAQs
This course is designed for intelligence analysts, investigators, researchers, and security professionals who need to understand and counter disinformation as part of their operational role, particularly in environments where information integrity impacts decision-making.
Disinformation and influence operations can distort the information environment and impact decision-making. Developing the ability to identify, interpret and assess manipulated content ensures intelligence outputs remain accurate, defensible, and relevant.
A foundational understanding of OSINT is recommended (such as OSINT Essentials, Core OSINT or equivalent experience).
No prior experience with disinformation analysis, scraping tools, or data visualization is required.
This course focuses specifically on detecting and analyzing disinformation and influence operations.
While broader OSINT training develops general investigative workflows, this course develops the capability to identify inauthentic content, assess actor intent, and analyze how narratives are created, amplified and used to influence decisions.
This course is delivered as instructor-led training, combining expert instruction with practical exercises and real-world scenarios. It can be delivered in person or virtually and tailored to your team’s operational context.
A self-paced, on-demand alternative is available through the OSINT Combine Academy via the Disinformation: Detecting, Collecting and Analyzing course.
BUILD OSINT CAPABILITY ACROSS YOUR TEAM
Contact us to schedule training, discuss delivery options, or explore how this course fits into your broader capability development.