Singapore has a Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill to combat fake news. Some reporting may be of interest: Parliament: Up to 10 years’ jail for individuals and $1 […]Read More
Our Take Following the conclusion of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, ASD published a fact sheet on Russian interference. As it illustrates, “Russian interference operations against the United States during the […]Read More
Top stories this week: Countering Russian Efforts Let’s Empower Russians Who are Fighting Putin’s Propaganda | Christian Caryl | The Washington Post We Know Russia Interfered in the 2016 Election. […]Read More
Chris Kremidas-Courtney, March 17th, 2019, Strategy Internationalhttps://strategyinternational.org/russian-disinformation-and-the-measles-surge-in-europe/ In 2018, Ukraine saw the biggest surge in measles outbreaks of all European countries, with a 634 percent increase in cases. From 2017 […]Read More
T.S. Allen, March 11th, 2019Modern War Institute at West Point In 2011, a Russian Ministry of Defense white paper defined information warfare “as the ability to . . . undermine political, economic, and […]Read More
Several articles in Stars and Stripes House VA committee launches investigation of bots using fake news to target veterans, servicemembershttps://www.stripes.com/news/us/house-va-committee-launches-investigation-of-bots-using-fake-news-to-target-veterans-servicemembers-1.571515Nikki Wentling, Stars and Strips, March 5th, 2019The House Committee on […]Read More
Olivia Gazis, CBS News, March 28th 2019https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-presidential-election-candidates-former-top-intelligence-officials-create-intelligence-briefing-book/ Two former acting CIA directors have enlisted former intelligence analysts in compiling a “briefing book” on global security challenges and are sending copies […]Read More
Facebook Removes Accounts From Russia, Iran for ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/03/26/business/26reuters-facebook-fake-accounts.html Reuters in the New York Times, March 26th, 2019Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it has removed more accounts from Iran, […]Read More
Europe fines Google $1.7 billion in antitrust caseKelvin Chan and Raf Casert, Associated Press in the Washington Post, March 20th, 2019https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/26/robert-kagans-big-wrong-idea/?utm_term=.a4bef06de998 Europe’s antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine […]Read More
Our Take ASD Senior Fellow Joshua Kirschenbaum published a digital brief on the national security dangers of opaque foreign investment, arguing that “undeclared foreign investments allow malign actors to cultivate […]Read More
