Irina Ivanova, July 1st 2019, CBS Newshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-details-efforts-to-prepare-for-2020-census-disinformation-elections-disruption/ Facebook plans to ban misinformation about the 2020 Census as well as a range of disruptive information about the elections. The company is […]Read More

Russia Russian Strategic Intentions | United States Department of Defense  U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid | David E. Sanger & Nicole Perlroth | New York Times Libya Uncovers Alleged Russian Plot to […]Read More

Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, July 6th 2019https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/world/europe/europe-russian-disinformation-propaganda-elections.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage BRUSSELS — The European Union launched an ambitious effort earlier this year to combat election interference: an early-warning system that would sound […]Read More

Bryan Bender, June 30th 2019, Politicohttps://www.politico.eu/article/russia-outgunning-us-in-race-for-global-influence-pentagon-study/ The U.S. is ill-equipped to counter the increasingly brazen political warfare Russia is waging to undermine democracies, the Pentagon and independent strategists warn in […]Read More

Our Take Europe needs a continent-wide buy-in on a new strategic approach to tackling authoritarian interference, ASD argues in a comprehensive report that details European efforts to defend against such threats and identifies […]Read More

An app that algorithmically ‘undressed’ images of women was taken down by its creator, citing server overload and potential harms. Samantha Cole, June 27th 2019, Vice’s Motherboardhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7agw/deepnude-app-that-undresses-photos-of-women-takes-it-offline The creator of DeepNude, […]Read More

Russia’s Latest Russian Accounts Pushed Fake Rubio Tweet Warning of British Spy Threat to U.S. Elections | Donnie O’Sullivan | CNN Media Grab: Oligarchs, Pro-Russian Forces use TV to Push […]Read More

Kristine Berzina, Nad’a Kovalcikova, David Slvo, Etienne SoulaAlliance for Security Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the U.S.https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/the-asd-european-policy-blueprint-for-countering-authoritarian-interference-in-democracies/ In recent years, European democracy has been shaken by internal and external events. […]Read More

Reuters in the New York Times, June 22nd 2019https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/06/22/technology/22reuters-russia-disinformation.html?searchResultPosition=5 LONDON — In August 2018, Spanish authorities uncovered a plot by anti-Brexit campaigners to assassinate leading Brexiteer and now favorite to […]Read More

Reuters in the New York Times, June 24th 2019https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/06/24/technology/24reuters-media-fakenews-game.html?searchResultPosition=5 LONDON — An online game that allows people to deploy Twitter bots, photo-shop evidence and incite conspiracy theories has proven effective […]Read More