After Social Media Bans, Militant Groups Found Ways to Remain Sheera Frenkel and Ben Hubbard, April 19th, 2019, New York Times In July 2013, a broadcaster affiliated with the Islamist group Hezbollah posted a threatening video on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. It featured gun-toting militants practicing an ambush to kidnap Israeli soldiers. The message: This […]Read More

After years of repression, Ethiopia’s media is free — and fanning the flames of ethnic tension Paul Schemm, April 21st, 2019, Washington Post From a collection of modest offices in a half-empty high rise, one of Ethiopia’s most prominent journalists publishes his weekly paper with a staff of just four. Russian interference in 2016 sets […]Read More

Mark Pomerleau, April 22nd, 2019C4ISRNET The National Defense Strategy, the guiding principle for everything the Department of Defense does these days, is a little more than a year old. The document stresses the return to a so-called great power competition and cites adversaries such as Russia and China as key competitors. Following the release of […]Read More

Thomas Kent, April 22nd, 2019The Atlantic CouncilReport here Russian information operations are carefully curated for each country that Moscow targets. For their own citizens, Russian media describe their country as all-powerful, yet the victim of constant plots and slander. Moldovans are told a predatory European Union (EU) is impoverishing the country and tearing it from […]Read More