A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaignsfrom the Pell Center at Salve Regina UniversitySign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here. Protecting ElectionsIn Ukraine and Beyond, Democracy Requires Both […]Read More

Richard Fontaine and Kara Fredericks, March 15th, 2019, Center for a New American Security https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/the-autocrats-new-tool-kit Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” […]Read More

Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Ronen Bergman and Nicole Perlroth, March 21st, 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/politics/government-hackers-nso-darkmatter.html Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private […]Read More

Inside Russia’s online propaganda machine Charles Maynes, PRI, March 16th, 2019 https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-16/mole-among-trolls-inside-russias-online-propaganda-machine Long before Americans heard about Russians using social media as part of a broader interference campaign in the […]Read More

Apple press release, March 19th, 2019https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-teams-with-media-literacy-programs-in-the-us-and-europe/ New Initiative to Encourage Critical Thinking and Empower Students to be Better Informed Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a new initiative in support […]Read More

Thou Shall Stop! is not a strategy Matt Armstrong, March 18th, 2019, https://mountainrunner.us/2019/03/thou-shall-stop-is-not-a-strategy/ Articles appear periodically on how the United States, or its allies, could improve its game in today’s decentralized […]Read More

Kevin Truitte, Georgetown University Security Studies Review March 11th, 2019 http://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/03/11/an-american-national-information-security-strategy/ In today’s Digital Age, information is a potent weapon. American adversaries such as Russia and China understand the power […]Read More

The path from online propaganda to murder isn’t only the domain of the Islamic State Philip Bump, March 15th, 2019, Washington Post It didn’t take long for American authorities to […]Read More

In Indonesia, Facebook and Twitter Are ‘Buzzer’ Battlegrounds as Elections Loom Reuters in the New York Times, March 13th, 2019 Almost every day, “Janda”, a self-described Indonesian housewife with 2,000 […]Read More

#DisinfoWeek was a series of strategic dialogues focused on the global challenge of disinformation. The Atlantic Council, together with U.S. Missions and Embassies in Europe, hosted a series of events […]Read More