Christina la Cour, Disinfo Portal, https://disinfoportal.org/governments-countering-disinformation-the-case-of-sweden/ Last September, the Swedish people went to the polls to elect a new government. Before the election, disinformation campaigns had been observed i.e. in Ukraine, the United States, and France in the lead-up to elections. For this reason, Sweden decided to better equip itself to counter disinformation campaigns and […]Read More

What? Russian and China Call on US To Stop Promoting Protests: Stay Out of Our ‘ Internal Affairs’ | Tim O’Connor | Newsweek Fighting Disinformation Commuting To Moscow: Lega Nord’s Pilgrimage To Russia | Bellingcat  Finland Is Winning the War On Fake News. What It’s Learned May Be Crucial to Western Democracy | Eliza Mackintosh | CNN Governments Countering Disinformation: The […]Read More

Chung Li-hua and Jake Chung, Taipei Times, August 4th 2019http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/08/04/2003719873 China is using local “agents” and intermediary organizations as a front in its cyberwarfare efforts against Taiwan, the Institute for National Defense and Security Research said in an article. The report, carried by the Ministry of National Defense-affiliated think tank’s monthly gazette and authored by […]Read More

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/july/knight-foundation-disinformation.html Bots, trolls, state-run propaganda, information warfare and hate speech are some of the most pervasive ways that societal discourse is being warped in the modern era. Carnegie Mellon University today announced the creation of a new research center dedicated to the study of online disinformation and its effects on democracy, funded by a $5 […]Read More

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 – forever (apologies to George Orwell). As U.S. policymakers remain indecisive over how to prevent a repeat of the 2016 election interference, the threat is looming […]Read More