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February 2022
IPA members are cordially invited to a virtual social and live podcast recording. On Wed, March 9, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern, there will be an IPA members only live Cognitive Crucible podcast recording, social, and Q&A with a panel of Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) experts. The first 30 minutes will include...
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Following the publication of two reports by Katerina Sedova, a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, CSET will hold a virtual event at 4:00 p.m. ET on February 16, 2022 titled, More than Deepfakes: AI and the Future of Disinformation Campaigns. The talk will feature Sedova, who studies...
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Information Professionals Association charter member Alan Kelly recently published in Small Wars Journal an essay titled: “Why Responding is Losing: The Plays We Run (and the Plays We Don’t) to Defeat Disinformation.” According to Kelly, president and founder of Playmaker Systems, LLC and author of The Elements of Influence: The New Essential Systems for Managing...
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Brandt, J., Schafer, B., Aghekyan, E., Wirtschafter, V., & Danditya, A. (2022). Winning the web: How Beijing exploits search results to shape views of Xinjiang and COVID-19. Brookings Institute. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/winning-the-web-how-beijing-exploits-search-results-to-shape-views-of-xinjiang-and-covid-19/
Mankoff, J. (2020). With Friends Like These: Assessing Russian Influence in Germany. Center for Strategic & International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/friends-these-assessing-russian-influence-germany
Babbage, R. (2019). Winning Without Fighting: Chinese and Russian Political Warfare Campaigns and How the West Can Prevail. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/winning-without-fighting-chinese-and-russian-political-warfare-campaigns-and-how-the-west-can-prevail/publication/1
Singer, P. W. (n.d.). Winning the War of Words: Information Warfare in Afghanistan. Brookings. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.brookings.edu/articles/winning-the-war-of-words-information-warfare-in-afghanistan/
Koerner, B. I. (2016, March). Why ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War—And How to Fight Back. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2016/03/isis-winning-social-media-war-heres-beat/