Facebook and Twitter disable new disinformation campaign with ties to Iran Tony Romm, May 28th 2019, Washington Post Facebook and Twitter each said on Tuesday they had disabled a sprawling […]Read More
U.S. Officials Say Foreign Election Hacking Is Inevitable The Associated Press in the New York Times, May 22nd 2019 The hacking of U.S. election systems, including by foreign adversaries, is […]Read More
Emmi Bevensee, Alexander Reid Ross, and Sabrina Nardin, May 22nd 2019, The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/european-elections-parliament-bots-social-media-matteo-salvini-far-right-a8924831.html Computer programmes aren’t going to drag the pencil out of your hand and scrawl an X on […]Read More
Our Take Russia’s financial tools of malign interference: ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, discussing the holistic nature of Russia’s interference in democratic […]Read More
What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracyEliza Mackintosh, CNN, May 2019https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/ Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear […]Read More
Fake Video Faked Pelosi Videos, Slowed To Make Her Appear Drunk, Spread Across Social Media | Drew Harwell | Washington Post Facebook on Fake Pelosi Video: Being “Fake” isn’t Enough […]Read More
Brian Padden, May 21st 2019, VOA News https://www.voanews.com/a/audit-us-broadcasting-to-cuba-rife-with-bad-journalism-ineffective-propaganda/4926999.html The U.S. government service charged with delivering objective news into Cuba produces both “bad journalism” and “ineffective propaganda,” according to an independent […]Read More
Austria shows the risks of dealing with the far right Ishaan Tharoor, May 21st 2019, Washington Post Sebastian Kurz’s partnership with the Freedom Party and its leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, dramatically […]Read More
Highlights From the Video That Brought Down Austria’s Vice Chancellor By Christopher F. Schuetze, May 18th 2019, New York Times A secretly filmed video that led Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria’s far-right […]Read More
The Weaponization and Exploitation of History, Religion, and EconomicsCSIS Brief, May 14th, 2019https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/190514_ConleyandMelino_RussianInfluence_layout_v2.pdf The Issue Russian malign influence in the Western Balkans is proving to have a political impact in […]Read More
