Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy Kevin Collier, BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on August 23, 2018, at 10:35 p.m. ET Representatives from […]Read More
Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund Securing Democracy Dispath August 27, 2018 Microsoft and social media companies uncover influence campaigns from Iran, Russia: Last week, Microsoft announced it dismantled […]Read More
Microsoft says it has found a Russian operation targeting U.S. political institutions Washington Post, August 21, 2018, by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg A group affiliated with the Russian government […]Read More
From Hayley Tsukayama in the August 15th, 2018, Washington Post Facebook turns to artificial intelligence to fight hate and misinformation in Myanmar https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/16/facebook-turns-artificial-intelligence-fight-hate-misinformation-myanmar/?utm_term=.22b634e6caeeRead More
Alliance for Securing Democracy – Weekly Dispatch U.S. officials and lawmakers take steps to secure elections, counter interference: On August 7, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis stated that the military is taking […]Read More
Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation By Samantha Bradshaw and Philip Howard Computational Propaganda Research Project, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford July, 2018 […]Read More
Today, the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Director Laura Rosenberger testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on: Foreign Influence Operations and their use of Social Media Platforms (transcript) Other […]Read More
The UK’s Commons Select Committee on Digital, Culture, Media and Sport just published data submitted by Facebook as part of the Committee’s inquiry into Fake News. These PDFs show advertisements run […]Read More
Breaking the fever – WhatsApp suggests a cure for virality Other tech firms should watch and learn The Economist, 26 July 2018 Priests, teachers and parents have for generations advised […]Read More
Wired’s article, The ‘Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories by Louise Matsakis (posted July 25th, 2018) is worth a read. … companies like YouTube, Google and Facebook have turned […]Read More
