From the Active Measures Newsletter produced by the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. Sign up for their newsletter here.
Here are the top stories we’ve seen this week:
Coronavirus
- Battling COVID-19, is DOD Prepared for an Onslaught of Disinformation and Propaganda from Foreign Competitors? | Matthew Coughlin & Paul Lieber | Military Times
- COVID-19: Indicators of Unconventional Warfare Against the West | Oleksandr Danylyuk | International Policy Digest
- Justice Department Tracks Virus Disinformation by Russia, China | Chris Strohm | Bloomberg
- China Calls Off Its Coronavirus Disinformation Campaign, While Russia Allows Malign Actors to Continue | Abraham Mahshie | Washington Examiner
- Coronavirus Becomes a Weapon of Disinformation in Middle East Battle for Influence | Nabih Bulos | Lost Angeles Times
- Judy Asks: Is the Coronavirus Breeding Disinformation Across Europe? | Judy Dempsey et. al. | Carnegie Europe: Judy Dempsey’s Strategic Europe
- 5G-Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory is Being Boosted by Organized Disinformation Campaign | Ryan Gallagher | Fortune
- As the U.S. Prepares for COVID-19 Disinformation Stokes Panic and Discord | Wayne Rash | Forbes
- ‘Liberal Swine’: How the Kremlin Exploits the Pandemic for Propaganda | Ksenita Kirillova | StopFake.org
- Why China’s Coronavirus Lies Don’t Matter if it Plays the Long Information Game | Mark Payumo | The National Interest
- China’s corona virus battle is waning. Its propaganda fight is not. | Vivian Wang | New York Times
- The Virus of Disinformation: Echoes of Past Bioweapons Accusations in Today’s COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories | Sarah Jacobs Gamberini & Amanda Moodie | War on the Rocks
- The UK Has Condemned Russia for Spreading ‘Disinformation’ About Boris Johnson’s Health | Alex Wickham | BuzzFeed News
- How Coronavirus Disinformation Gets Past Social Media Moderators | Robert Evans | Bellingcat
Russia
- Russian propaganda ‘very likely’ stoking 5G health fears in Australia: expert claims | Chris Zappone | The Sydney Morning Herald
- Russia-connected group pushed fake documents aimed at political flashpoints, researchers say | Kevin Collier | NBC news
- Revealed: Estonia Targeted by Russia-linked Disinformation Deluge | Alex Scroxton | ComputerWeekly.com
- Long Read: Intent to Infekt: ‘Operation Pinball’ Tactics Reminiscent of ‘Operation Secondary Infektion’ | Insikt Group | Recorded Future
China
- Long Read: Political Warfare, Sharp Power, the U.S., and East Asia | Jacques deLisle | Orbis