Online disinformation and emerging tech: Are democracies at risk? Online disinformation and emerging tech: Are democracies at risk?  Read More

If you’re not subscribing to the Kremlin Watch briefing generated by the European Values Center for Security and Policy, you should! This week’s update: https://preview.mailerlite.com/j4y5j8/1299848230233704010/n9h4/ Topics of the Week Russian exploits in Africa: Strategic goal or a testing ground for the Kremlin? How does GRU attack Android phones? Kremlin‘s Current Narrative: China is a victim...Read More

Russia will reportedly ban devices without preinstalled Russian software The law comes into force next July, the BBC reported. https://www.cnet.com/news/russia-will-ban-devices-without-pre-installed-russian-software/Read More

Editor’s Note:  This report is from a Harvard based non-profit: The Nieman Lab.  Whenever I read reports like this, I remind myself of the importance of a robust investigative journalism industry in a democracy. The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem — this report suggests the policy changes it can make The...Read More

Editor’s Note:  IPA and the idea of cognitive security are rooted in the understanding that to ensure the free flow of ideas in pursuit of democratic ideals we must first understand human decision-making and then look at the technical tools used that seek to modify our behavior.  To understand the threat from the latter, you...Read More

The 6th Warfighting Domain This article highlights a part of the DoD IO force which is little known.  Air Force IO Officers all have Psychology degrees and most have been through the Army’s Psychological Operations Course.  Their numbers are small but they should be seen as increasingly important as the cognitive dimension of the IE...Read More

Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing battle.  This NY Times article covers some familiar ground and how those willing to produce these fakes are likely a step-ahead of the algorithms designed to detect them.Read More

https://time.com/5722805/rethink-information-war-russia/ Without agreeing with all the author’s assertions in this piece, there is a case to be made that somehow an Information War is something different than what war in its traditional form attempts to achieve – which is to bend your enemy to your will.  Make no mistake that in the information environment, we...Read More

Daniel Funke, September 12th 2019, Poynterhttps://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/here-are-4-new-terms-to-describe-online-deception-and-misinformation/ New terms for the misinformation trade The language surrounding misinformation seems to change as fast as the tactics used by the people who spread […]Read More

  Hannah S. Chapman and Theodore P. Gerber, September 5th 2019, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/05/russian-propaganda-isnt-effective-you-may-think/ Considering the Russian government’s disinformation efforts to polarize American voters during the 2016 presidential election, the […]Read More