Commentary by Frank Adkins and Shawn HibbardWar on the Rocks, August 6th 2019https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-coming-automation-of-propaganda/ If you want a vision of the future, imagine a thousand bots screaming from a human face […]Read More
Our Take Participating in our democracy is one important way to protect it, argued Director Laura Rosenberger in an interview with the Bertelsmann Foundation. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle […]Read More
Russell Hsiao, July 16 2019, China Brief from the Jamestown Foundation. https://jamestown.org/program/a-preliminary-survey-of-ccp-influence-operations-in-singapore/ Editor’s note: Our previous issue contained an article by Russell Hsiao that profiled institutions and methods employed by the […]Read More
Joshua Kurlantzick, July 29th 2019, Council on Foreign Relations blog https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-soft-and-sharp-power-strategies-southeast-asia-accelerating-are-they-having-impact In a recent analysis for the Jamestown Foundation, Russell Hsiao of the Global Taiwan Institute presented a thorough and compelling case […]Read More
Harper Neidig, August 1st 2019, The Hill. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/455774-facebook-takes-down-saudi-linked-disinformation-network. Facebook’s Press Release –> https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/cib-uae-egypt-saudi-arabia/ Facebook said Thursday that it had removed an online disinformation campaign with ties to the Saudi government […]Read More
Lisa Kaplan, July 23rd 2019, Brookingshttps://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2019/07/23/four-steps-to-stop-the-spread-of-disinformation-online/ The public discussion of disinformation often focuses on targeted candidates, without recognizing that disinformation actually targets voters. In the case of elections, actors both foreign and domestic are […]Read More
Kate Starbird, 24 July 2019, Naturehttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02235-x Misconceptions about disinformation leave us vulnerable to manipulation online, says Kate Starbird. Earlier this month, the White House hosted a ‘Social Media Summit’ that […]Read More
Our Take: In testimony to Congress last week, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller highlighted the scope of the threat posed by Russian interference, Director Laura Rosenberger emphasized for NPR and in Just Security. On […]Read More
April 2019, The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directoratehttp://www.law.gov or https://fas.org/irp/eprint/lloc-fake-news.pdf This report examines the legal approaches of fifteen countries, representing all regions of the world, to the […]Read More
Startups and government agencies are researching ways to combat doctored images ahead of the 2020 election Abigail Summerville, July 27th 2019, Wall Street Journal Startup companies, government agencies and academics […]Read More