Editor’s Note: We’ve written here before about the work of the European Values Center and they continue to expand their work to expose disinformation and the efforts of malign actors to undermine democracy. They have recently begun two new newsletters: The Georgia Watch Briefing the latest of which can be seen here –Georgia Watch Briefing...Read More
The Defending Democratic Institutions Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold an Online Event Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 at noon EST on “Combatting Malign Influence in 2020: A Conversation with Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen.” Rosen’s remarks will focus on U.S. government efforts to counter foreign disinformation given the forthcoming...Read More
Military.com’s story August 16, “Fake News is Wreaking Havoc on the Battlefield. Here’s What the Military’s Doing About It,” demonstrates some of the challenges of identifying fake news and disinformation campaigns, particularly for U.S. troops in the battlefield, and highlights some of the new military counter-missions to address these sophisticated and ambiguous enemies. The article...Read More
Update regarding the 9th Annual Pacific Information Operations (IO) & Electronic Warfare (EW) Symposium: Now 19-23 OCT Virtual & VTC This important annual event, now in its 9th year, will be delivered on-line and via secure video tele-conference in response to the current restrictions on travel to Hawaii during the global COVID-19 pandemic (namely the...Read More
The latest podcast in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ podcast, KennanX, “Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy,” features Wilson Center fellow Nina Jankowicz talking about foreign and domestic disinformation in America and how to build a more disinformation-resilient society. Jankowicz recently published “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of...Read More
Editor’s note: When possible, the Information Professionals Association (IPA) tries to highlight the work and public activities of our members. Dr. Rand Waltzman, IPA Board Member and Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the RAND Corporation, tackles the problem of deepfakes and disinformation, and how to counter them, in a recent Financial Times commentary, “We cannot...Read More
Information Professionals Association (IPA) Member Thomas Kent, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, shares his forthcoming book, “Striking Back: Overt and Covert Options to Combat Russian Disinformation.” The book will be available on Amazon.com starting September 29, 2020, but is available for pre-order now. A few words...Read More
Editor’s Note: In late July, Mark Pomerleau, a reporter for C4ISRNET (an online publication that is part of Defense News), published a special multimedia series on “Information Warfare: How the Digital World is Changing How DoD Fights.” Articles covered how the Department of Defense is reorganizing for information warfare (IW), and included interviews with leaders...Read More
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center released a report August 5, 2020 on the “Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem.” The release is part of an effort across the Department of State and entire U.S. Government to help our allies and partners understand and counter this threat from Russia. The Global Engagement Center, which...Read More
Editor’s note: We have known about the threat of deepfakes for years so it’s not surprising we would have developed an ability to detect them when they are produced by less sophisticated actors. The threat posed by sophisticated actors continues to be real and we must marshal national-level resources to fight them. This report is...Read More
