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

Clare Duffy, August 18 2019, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/18/tech/advertising-disinformation-money-reliable-sources/index.html. New York (CNN Business)As the United States gears up for another presidential election, aware of the role online disinformation played in 2016, the business of publishing false […]Read More

Kate Conger, August 19th 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/hong-kong-protests-china-disinformation-facebook-twitter.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage SAN FRANCISCO — China has adopted Russia’s playbook for spreading disinformation on Facebook and Twitter, deploying those tactics in its increasingly heated […]Read More

Our Take The Kremlin’s operatives are adept at jumping on divisive narratives in the news cycle, with the goal of dividing Americans, noted Director Laura Rosenberger in the Washington Post. The United States should […]Read More