U.S. Officials Say Foreign Election Hacking Is Inevitable The Associated Press in the New York Times, May 22nd 2019 The hacking of U.S. election systems, including by foreign adversaries, is […]Read More
Emmi Bevensee, Alexander Reid Ross, and Sabrina Nardin, May 22nd 2019, The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/european-elections-parliament-bots-social-media-matteo-salvini-far-right-a8924831.html Computer programmes aren’t going to drag the pencil out of your hand and scrawl an X on […]Read More
Our Take Russia’s financial tools of malign interference: ASD Co-director Laura Rosenberger testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, discussing the holistic nature of Russia’s interference in democratic […]Read More
What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracyEliza Mackintosh, CNN, May 2019https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/ Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear […]Read More
Fake Video Faked Pelosi Videos, Slowed To Make Her Appear Drunk, Spread Across Social Media | Drew Harwell | Washington Post Facebook on Fake Pelosi Video: Being “Fake” isn’t Enough […]Read More
Brian Padden, May 21st 2019, VOA News https://www.voanews.com/a/audit-us-broadcasting-to-cuba-rife-with-bad-journalism-ineffective-propaganda/4926999.html The U.S. government service charged with delivering objective news into Cuba produces both “bad journalism” and “ineffective propaganda,” according to an independent […]Read More
Austria shows the risks of dealing with the far right Ishaan Tharoor, May 21st 2019, Washington Post Sebastian Kurz’s partnership with the Freedom Party and its leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, dramatically […]Read More
Highlights From the Video That Brought Down Austria’s Vice Chancellor By Christopher F. Schuetze, May 18th 2019, New York Times A secretly filmed video that led Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria’s far-right […]Read More
The Weaponization and Exploitation of History, Religion, and EconomicsCSIS Brief, May 14th, 2019https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/190514_ConleyandMelino_RussianInfluence_layout_v2.pdf The Issue Russian malign influence in the Western Balkans is proving to have a political impact in […]Read More
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment on “Undermining Democracy: Kremlin Tools of Malign Political Influence.” […]Read More