Twitter released all the accounts and related content associated with potential information operations found on their service since 2016. These large datasets comprise 3,841 accounts affiliated with the IRA, originating in Russia, and 770 other accounts, potentially originating in Iran. They include more than 10 million Tweets and more than 2 million images, GIFs, videos, […]Read More

This week’s Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy. News and Commentary Platforms move against U.S. actors engaging in inauthentic social media behavior: Americans on both the left and the right have begun to mimic the Russian playbook by creating fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter to promote “falsehoods meant to mislead and inflame” in […]Read More

A New Cold Front in Russia’s Information War by Reid Standish, Dispatch – Foreign Policy Magazine, October 3, 2018 Russia may be interested in sowing distrust and divisions within its Nordic neighbor as shutting down any spying on its undersea activities.  Early in 2017, Frode Berg, a 62-year-old pensioner and former border guard from Norway, […]Read More

How to Fight Russian Infowar in Central Europe Defense One, by Radu Magdin, October 12, 2018 Traditional counter-propaganda techniques are decreasingly effective. The next steps will require focus, engagement, and new thinking. After years of low awareness and fragmented approaches, the West is finally coming to grips with Russia’s hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe. The […]Read More

Facebook Tackles Rising Threat: Americans Aping Russian Schemes to Deceive New York Times, Sheera Frenkel, October 11th, 2018 Real-time spreading of disinformation started by Americans, for Americans Shift the flow of online disinformation to mislead and inflame Weeks before the midterm elections, influence campaigns are a domestic phenomenon fomented by Americans on the left and […]Read More

This week’s Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy. News and Commentary Russian GRU officers attempted to hack organization investigating the Skripal poisoning: On October 4, the Netherlands announced that it expelled four Russian military intelligence directorate (GRU) officers in April for attempting to carry out a cyber-attack on the Organization for the Prohibition of […]Read More

Seth Jones at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a brief on how to respond to Russian information warfare activities.  Take a look!Read More

This week’s Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy. News and Commentary Russian hacking group launches powerful new cyber weapon:  Fancy Bear, a hacking group linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU), has developed a powerful new cyber weapon that resists conventional counter-methods. The malware allows hackers to maintain access to a target even after a complete […]Read More

Facebook’s Q&A – … two new partnerships we recently entered into. One is with the International Republican Institute and the other is with the National Democratic Institute. The goal is to draw on the expertise from these two organizations to further assist with our international election integrity efforts for elections around the globe. Reuter’s article – […]Read More

From NATO’s Strategic Communications Center for Excellence: Have a great idea on how to detect disinformation online? Submit your idea  –  The winning team will get a 5,000 Euro prize.  Deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2018.Read More