A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns from the Pell Center at Salve Regina UniversitySign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here. Current operations: Fake: Conscription Notices Will be Handed […]Read More

Ellen Goodman’s (April 2nd, 2019) opinion piece posted on Protego Press and the German Marshal Fund. It’s no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg has called for “updating the rules for the […]Read More

Mona Elswah, Philip Howard, and Vidya Narayanan Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda LabApril 3rd, 2019 https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/04/Iran-Memo.pdf Iranian interference in the politics of Arab countries has become more self-evident since the Arab […]Read More

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Calls for More Outside Regulation Associated Press in the New York Times, March 30th, 2019 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Saturday for more outside regulation in several […]Read More

Former CIA leaders give ‘briefing book’ to 2020 candidates to counteract ‘fake news’ and ‘foreign election interference’ Shane Harris, March 27th, 2019, Washington Post Two former top CIA officials have […]Read More

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-mathias-dopfner/ April 1st, 2019 Mark Zuckerberg shared the second conversation of his 2019 personal challenge. He sat down with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Europe’s largest publisher Axel Springer, to discuss […]Read More

Patrick Tucker, Technology Editor, Defense One, March 31st, 2019 https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/03/next-phase-ai-deep-faking-whole-world-and-china-ahead/155944/ Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and […]Read More

Singapore has a Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill to combat fake news. Some reporting may be of interest: Parliament: Up to 10 years’ jail for individuals and $1 […]Read More

Our Take Following the conclusion of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, ASD published a fact sheet on Russian interference. As it illustrates, “Russian interference operations against the United States during the […]Read More

Top stories this week: Countering Russian Efforts Let’s Empower Russians Who are Fighting Putin’s Propaganda | Christian Caryl | The Washington Post We Know Russia Interfered in the 2016 Election. […]Read More