Our Take Partisan politics stands in the way of implementing many commonsense measures to address foreign interference in U.S. democratic processes, ASD Deputy Director Dave Salvo argues in an op-ed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Disinformation surrounding cyber threats could be particularly detrimental to the electoral process, ASD Head of Policy and Research Jessica Brandt noted to PBS NewsHour. Deepfake technologies are becoming […]Read More

EU Election Attacked Russia Sought to Use Social Media to Influence E.U. Vote, Report Finds | Adam Satariano | New York Times EU Says Russia Conducted “Sustained” Election Interference Campaign | Jon Fingas | Engadget Social Media Platforms This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies | Samantha Cole | VICE Russians Created […]Read More

Dr. Neville Bolt and Leonie Haiden NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence June 9th 2019 https://www.stratcomcoe.org/improving-nato-strategic-communications-terminology THE PROJECT’S KEY OBJECTIVES ARE: Ensuring that the core terms and definitions are coherent across different areas of NATO StratCom and can be equally understood and applied by the military and civilian side. Creating a sense of responsibility of […]Read More

Tina McCorkindale, Institute for Public Relations https://instituteforpr.org/ipr-disinformation-study/Report – https://instituteforpr.org/wp-content/uploads/Disinformation_Study_IPR-6-18.pdfSlides – https://instituteforpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-IPR-Disinformation-Study.pdf Sixty-three percent of Americans view disinformation—or deliberately misleading or biased information—as a “major” problem in society, on par with gun violence (63%) and terrorism (66%), according to the 2019 Institute for Public Relations Disinformation in Society Report. The 2019 IPR Disinformation in Society Report […]Read More

Yoel Roth, Head of Site Integrity at Twitter, June 13 2019 https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information-ops-on-twitter.html In October 2018, we published the first comprehensive archive of Tweets and media associated with known state-backed information operations on Twitter. Since its launch, thousands of researchers from across the globe have downloaded datasets, which contain more than 30 million Tweets and over […]Read More

EU Finds Russian Disinformation, Says Tech Firms Must Do More Reuters, June 14th 2019, New York Times Russian online outlets spread disinformation to sway voters in last month’s European Union elections, the bloc said on Friday in a report calling for social media firms to take greater action or risk regulation. Russia Sought to Use […]Read More

How YouTube erased history in its battle against white supremacy Elizabeth Dwoskin, June 13th 2019, Washington Post Last week, YouTube launched a crackdown on white supremacists and purveyors of hoaxes. It took down thousands of videos and channels that featured Holocaust denial and promoted Nazi ideologies. Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We […]Read More

Our Take: AI-powered systems generate modified content and advance digital forgeries that are harmful to American interests, said ASD Non-Resident Senior Fellow Clint Watts testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Kremlin and its proxies employ various tactics to undermine democracies around the world, including by enriching elites, bankrolling illiberal populists, building […]Read More

House Intelligence Committee Hearing on DeepFakes and AI Statement For The Record | Danielle Keats Citron Statement For The Record | Jack Clark Statement For The Record | Dr. David Doermann Statement For The Record | Clint Watts Getting Ready for 2020 Securing American Elections | Michael McFaul, ed. | Stanford University They Watched Russia Try to Sway Voters in […]Read More

Alina Polyakova and Daniel Fried, June 13th 2019, The Atlantic Councilhttps://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/democratic-defense-against-disinformation-2-0 Foreign interference in democratic elections has put disinformation at the forefront of policy in Europe and the United States. The second edition of Democratic Defense Against Disinformation takes stock of how governments, multinational institutions, civil-society groups, and the private sector have responded to the […]Read More