Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials By Donie O’Sullivan, Drew Griffin, Curt Devine and Atika Shubert, CNN, February 16, 2019 Three online video channels designed to […]Read More

A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University Sign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here.  Top stories for this week: […]Read More

Lithuania fears Russia will attempt to sway its elections Andrius Sytas, Reuters, February 5th 2019 VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s intelligence agencies fear Russia will interfere in its forthcoming elections, including […]Read More

Researchers create ‘malicious’ writing AI Dave Lee, BBC News, February 15, 2019 The article follows – see an example at the bottom of this post. A team of researchers who have built an artificially-intelligent writer say they are withholding the technology as […]Read More

Facebook Toughens Political Ad Policies in India Ahead of ElectionReuters on the New York Times, February 7th, 2019Facebook Inc is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to […]Read More

Fake news threatens our businesses, not just our politics Matthew F. Ferraro and Jason C. Chipman, Outlook Section of the Washington Post, February 8th, 2019How trolls and profiteers use disinformation […]Read More

Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy Our Take:Updates to the Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Authoritarian Interference Tracker highlight Russian state-sponsored media outlets’ efforts to discredit adversaries and to manipulate […]Read More

Former Fox News reporter named to lead counter-propaganda efforts at State By Kylie Atwood, Michelle Kosinski, and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, February 7th, 2019 The State Department on Thursday announced that […]Read More

Trends in the Diffusion of Misinformation on Social Media Three researchers, Allcott, Hunt & Gentzkow, Matthew & Yu, Chuan just published this article. The authors took a look at 569 […]Read More

Case Studies of Malicious Social Media Use BBC Monitoring tracks thousands of international media outlets, including hard-to-reach broadcast sources, to report news from and about the world’s media and social […]Read More