ANALYSIS CYCLE: ESTABLISHING A STRATEGIC AND SELF-REINFORCING WORKFLOW The Analysis Cycle is a meta-methodology to provide one core workflow that delivers both on the long-term objective of systematically analysing and disrupting FIMI and providing insights in the short-term for quick and timely reactions In the (1) Strategic Monitoring phase, the ecosystem of known FIMI assets used by a threat actor to engage in manipulation is mapped These assets can be overtly associated with a foreign actor, or have been attributed by the FIMI research community according to current best practices 29 A good example of such a mapping is the infographic “Russia’s Disinformation & Propaganda Ecosystem” depicted in Figure 17 (later also built upon by euvsdisinfoeu)30 Systematically monitoring the activity of these known FIMI channels allows us to understand patterns in their behavioural tactics, and spot potential new channels of that ecosystem, for example through suspicious amplification pattern...