A Facebook War:  Libyans Battle on the Streets and on Screens Declan Walsh and Suliman Ali Zway, New York Times, September 4th, 2018 Some highlights: Keyboard warriors spread disinformation and coordinate battlefield guidance … Facebook as a force multiplier … Libyan Facebook appears to host military-grade weapons being traded openly and human traffickers highlighting their […]Read More

On the Australian Government’s website, this joint legal statement from the governments of the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand helps to shape the discussion on personal rights and privacy and the role of encryption in protecting these rights. Read the statementRead More

Fake views – Googling the news Are Google searches biased in favor of left-leaning news outlets? Economist Print edition | United States | Aug 30th 2018 … Our analysis finds that, even after accounting for how popular their websites are, fewer articles from right-leaning outlets show up on Google. … built a model which incorporates data […]Read More

Election Interference: Emerging Norms of Digital Statecraft Atlantic Council, September 12th, 2018 The event will engage cybersecurity professionals, journalists and key stakeholders to discuss the development of norms around election influence and interference and lessons learned from the international community’s brief history with these new tools of statecraft. The panel will look into the future […]Read More

Putin’s Propaganda: Pushing Back Against Kremlin-Run Television September 11, 2018 – 3:00 pm Atlantic Council Putin’s regime has been accused of using politically motivated assassinations as a tool to silence and deter future defectors and political opposition.  Each assassination is accompanied by a web of false narratives, often transmitted by state-run media outlets.  Marina Litvinenko […]Read More

This Is How Russian Propaganda Actually Works In The 21st Century Buzzfeed News, Holger Roonemaa and Inga Springe August 29, 2018 The Russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the Kremlin.  Russian state media created secret companies in order to […]Read More

Countering Disinformation: Interdisciplinary Lessons for Policymakers Monday, September 10, 2018 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Register With the growth of social media, disinformation has become an increasingly potent political tool. State and non-state actors from various countries, among them Russia and China, have become adept at manufacturing and […]Read More

RAND Corporation’s Katherine Costello put forth, Russia’s Use of Media and Information Operations in Turkey, Implications for the United States Russian media have sought to undermine Turkey’s political and security cooperation with the United States and Europe by exacerbating mutual skepticism and highlighting policy differences. In Turkey, Russian media have also contributed to anti-American discourse […]Read More

Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy Kevin Collier, BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on August 23, 2018, at 10:35 p.m. ET Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, scheduled a private meeting last Friday to share their tactics in preparation for […]Read More

Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund Securing Democracy Dispath August 27, 2018 Microsoft and social media companies uncover influence campaigns from Iran, Russia: Last week, Microsoft announced it dismantled a phishing campaign by the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Fancy Bear (also known as APT28 or Strontium, and linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency GRU) […]Read More