Our Take States need additional federal funding to address election security vulnerabilities, according to a report co-authored by ASD Deputy Director David Salvo and Head of External Affairs Rachael Dean Wilson with the […]Read More
2020 Election and Information Security Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats Establishes Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive | Office of the Director of National Intelligence Mark Esper, Defense Secretary Nominee, Says […]Read More
Nolan Peterson, July 14th 2019, The National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-iran-might-fight-war-against-america-thanks-russia-67002 KYIV, Ukraine—The recent military tension between the U.S. and Iran underscores a new era of conflict, some military officials and analysts […]Read More
Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The Atlantic, July 12th 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/chinas-influence-efforts-germany-students/593689/ Beijing uses student and professional associations to try to influence not just Chinese citizens abroad, but outsiders, too. In centuries past, […]Read More
Kim Sengupta, The Independent, July 17th, 2019 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lithuania-elves-russia-election-tampering-online-cyber-crime-hackers-kremlin-a9008931.html When the dark acts of the trolls became particularly harmful, the Elves felt they had no choice but to get together and […]Read More
Our Take It is imperative the United States secure forms of advanced technologies that underlie our economy and military, ASD Advisory Council member Michael Chertoff argues in an opinion piece for CNBC. Modern […]Read More
Unraveling Russian Disinformation Exclusive: The True Origins of the Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory. A Yahoo News Investigation | Michael Isikoff | Yahoo News The Evolution of a Russian Troll | Amy Mackinnon | Foreign […]Read More
Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News, July 9 2019. https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-the-true-origins-of-the-seth-rich-conspiracy-a-yahoo-news-investigation-100000831.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth […]Read More
Kevin Collier, CNN, July 11th, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/states-election-disinformation-education/index.html New York (CNN)As the 2020 presidential campaign heats up, individual states are ramping up education efforts to counter the threat posed by foreign disinformation campaigns […]Read More
