UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION OPERATIONS WITH TWITTER DATA: A WORKSHOP SERIES On July 9, the Carnegie Partnership for Countering Influence Operations (PCIO) and Twitter launched a series of virtual workshops to grant exceptional researchers the opportunity to present their cutting-edge work on Information Operations (IO) datasets to a community of scholars and leading experts in IO. The...Read More

Just in time to celebrate U.S. Independence Day, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a new report looking at Russian and Chinese information campaigns and how governments have struggled to respond.  CSIS examined Russian influence activities in Germany and the United Kingdom and Chinese influence operations in Japan and Australia. “The cases...Read More

Rand: Frameworks for Assessing USEUCOM Efforts to Inform, Influence, and Persuade by Miriam Matthews, Christopher Paul, David Schulker, David Stebbins A new study from Rand describes how systematically planned and implemented assessments are important in ensuring that finite resources are allocated appropriately, that plans can be refined, and that key objectives are realized. The report focuses on U.S. European...Read More

What Cyber Command’s ISIS operations means for the future of information warfare In C4ISRNET, the Marine Corps’ new commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, or MIG, Col. Brian Russell, discusses how the Navy and Marine Corps can perform successful information operations by understanding how Joint Task Force-Ares, U.S. Cyber Command’s online offensive against...Read More

A new report from Rand by Christopher Paul, Yuna Huh Wong, Elizabeth M. Bartels on “Opportunities for Including the Information Environment in U.S. Marine Corps Wargames” looks at how to incorporate the Information Environment into US Marine Corps wargames. Noting the increasing attention to information operations and information-based capabilities in military planning and the increasing popularity and use...Read More

Editor’s Note: The Senate this week is debating the content of the fiscal year (FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill that authorizes programs and sets policy across the national security community. Among the more than 500 amendments proposed for floor consideration, a bipartisan amendment introduced by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and...Read More

Addressing Pandemic Propaganda and Disinformation in Africa Notice of Funding Opportunity The Department of State Global Engagement Center (GEC) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) June 22 using funding from appropriations in the CARES Act to Address Pandemic Propaganda and Disinformation in Africa.  GEC is seeking proposals for activities that address the following efforts...Read More

The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) will host a Virtual Fireside Chat on Friday, June 26, 2020 at 10 a.m. EDT on “Europe’s Counter-Disinformation Agenda: A Conversation with Vice President Věra Jourová.” Věra Jourová, Vice President for Values and Transparency at the European Commission, is leading the Commission’s response to Russian and Chinese disinformation campaigns...Read More

Editor’s Note: Putting politics aside, The Atlantic lays out for the public just how the Trump campaign adeptly used the Facebook advertising methodology to create a constant message to social media consumers. Successful Facebook advertising includes lots of image and marketing copy testing in order to find the subtle combinations that resonate. Most of the...Read More

Editor’s Note: Information Professionals Association (IPA) Vice President John Bicknell and Board Member Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon shared “The End of Information Warfare?” written by Zac Rogers of the Jeff Bleich Centre for the US Alliance in Digital Technology, Security, and Governance at Flinders University of South Australia. Bicknell notes, “This thought provoking article begins...Read More