The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite Editor’s Note:  A ‘much mentioned’ but rarely discussed aspect of online discourse that’s happening before our eyes:  The use of fake personas and AI algorithms to produce content with the intent merely to sow discord.  Today it’s the Russians and Chinese and tomorrow…..almost anyone…?  These tools don’t...Read More

Editor’s Note: Over the last several years, convergence has become a commonly used term to capture the combination of various new technologies and their potential to transform missions and applications in ways that were previously unknown. Nearly all the military Services are looking at how artificial intelligence, machine learning, new methods of determination location, and...Read More

Editor’s Note: The PSYWAR podcast is made by active duty Psychological Operations Soldiers from the US Army’s 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) for the benefit of other members of the special operations community, and Soldiers/civilians interested in joining the PSYOP Regiment. Each week, the podcast discusses a new topic on Information Warfare along with some...Read More

Editor’s Note:  I think the title says it all; a pity so many are willing to do so little and instead fall for that most common of human foibles:  confirmation bias.  Also great to see sites like Bellingcat being highlighted – we need more of them. How Americans Get Tricked Into Participating in Disinformation Campaigns...Read More

Editor’s Note:  Weaponization of information by Russia to achieve aims that would normally require more violent means is not a new story, and if it is not “warfare” to us, it is most certainly an extension of political aims with the specific objective of undermining our way of life and the influence of democracies throughout...Read More

Editor’s Note:   We’ve written here before about the work of the European Values Center and they continue to expand their work to expose disinformation and the efforts of malign actors to undermine democracy.  They have recently begun two new newsletters:  The Georgia Watch Briefing the latest of which can be seen here –Georgia Watch Briefing...Read More

The Defending Democratic Institutions Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold an Online Event Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 at noon EST on “Combatting Malign Influence in 2020: A Conversation with Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen.” Rosen’s remarks will focus on U.S. government efforts to counter foreign disinformation given the forthcoming...Read More

Military.com’s story August 16, “Fake News is Wreaking Havoc on the Battlefield. Here’s What the Military’s Doing About It,” demonstrates some of the challenges of identifying fake news and disinformation campaigns, particularly for U.S. troops in the battlefield, and highlights some of the new military counter-missions to address these sophisticated and ambiguous enemies. The article...Read More

Update regarding the 9th Annual Pacific Information Operations (IO) & Electronic Warfare (EW) Symposium: Now 19-23 OCT Virtual & VTC This important annual event, now in its 9th year, will be delivered on-line and via secure video tele-conference in response to the current restrictions on travel to Hawaii during the global COVID-19 pandemic (namely the...Read More

The latest podcast in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ podcast, KennanX, “Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy,” features Wilson Center fellow Nina Jankowicz talking about foreign and domestic disinformation in America and how to build a more disinformation-resilient society. Jankowicz recently published “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of...Read More