Pete Norman, August 31st 2019, Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-31/u-s-unleashes-military-to-fight-fake-news-disinformation Fake news and social media posts are such a threat to U.S. security that the Defense Department is launching a project to repel “large-scale, automated […]Read More
China and Hong Kong Inside Beijing’s Toolbox to Crush Hong Kong | Brendon Hong | The Daily Beast China’s Playbook in Hong Kong Is Also Working in the Asia-Pacific | Chris Horton | The Atlantic […]Read More
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 | 3:00PM-4:00PM The Stimson Center, 1211 Connecticut Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington DC, 20036 The Stimson Center’s East Asia Program is launching a new annual series, Taiwan Security Brief. […]Read More
Dana Priest, Rain Aljas and Scott Gelman, August 28th 2019, Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/maryland-was-never-play-russians-targeted-it-anyway/ BALTIMORE — Russia’s Twitter campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election in Maryland began in June 2015, 17 […]Read More
Originally published at https://www.fifthdomain.com/opinion/2019/08/09/how-to-give-the-militarys-tactical-information-warriors-a-chance/ By COL (ret) Carmine Cicalese During his recent confirmation hearings to be the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley cited the […]Read More
Tonya Riley, August 22nd 2019, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2019/08/22/the-technology-202-instagram-s-new-fact-checking-tool-may-have-limited-impact-on-disinformation/5d5d9e8388e0fa7bb93a8659/ Researchers worry that a new feature giving Instagram users the power to flag false news on the platform won’t do much to […]Read More
By Bill Gertz – Wednesday, August 21, 2019 – Washington Times https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/21/chinas-hong-kong-propaganda-rules-revealed/ The ruling Communist Party of China issued internal guidelines recently mandating that state-run propaganda outlets avoid any positive […]Read More
Our Take Beijing’s use of English-language inauthentic social media accounts demonstrates its desire to manipulate the flow of information outside its borders, argued Director Laura Rosenberger to the Washington Post. Using fake social […]Read More
Platform News Maintaining The Integrity Of Our Platforms | Shane Huntley | Google Information operations directed at Hong Kong | Twitter Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China | Facebook In the Trump Era, […]Read More
The Editors, Scientific American, September 2019https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/everyone-is-an-agent-in-the-new-information-warfare/ No one thinks, I am the kind of person who is susceptible to misinformation. It is those others (stupid anti-vaxxers! arrogant liberal elites!) who are swayed by propaganda […]Read More
