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 Internet” – he signaled as much last April in his testimony before the U.S. Senate, inclining his head towards the yoke of regulation.  But things […]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 Spring of 2011. Iran has been trying to widen its influence in the region in a political confrontation with Saudi Arabia. In October 2018, Twitter […]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 areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. Australian […]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 compiled an unclassified report on the major national security challenges facing the United States, which they are distributing to every candidate running for president. Facebook […]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 the role quality journalism plays in building informed communities and the principles Facebook should use for building a news tab to surface more high quality […]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 enjoy the chaos. Worries about deep fakes — machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t — […]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 million fine for firms under draft law against online falsehoodsTham Yuen-C, Senior Political Correspondent, Strait Times, 1 April 2019Those who spread online falsehoods with a […]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 2016 presidential election were vast and complex,” and involved a sustained, multi-vector campaign to “damage our democracy and divide our citizens.” Most importantly, that campaign […]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. Will Anything be Done to Stop it in 2020? | Luke Barnes | Think Progress Europe Needs a Plan to Fight Putin’s Trolls | Editorial Board | […]Read More

Chris Kremidas-Courtney, March 17th, 2019, Strategy Internationalhttps://strategyinternational.org/russian-disinformation-and-the-measles-surge-in-europe/ In 2018, Ukraine saw the biggest surge in measles outbreaks of all European countries, with a 634 percent increase in cases.  From 2017 to 2018 to an astonishing 53,000 cases were reported in Ukraine According to recent reporting from international health experts, Europe is currently experiencing a 20 […]Read More