Facebook, Google face widening crackdown over online content Danica Kirka and Kelvin Chan, Washington Post, April 8th, 2019 Tech giants like Facebook and Google came under increasing pressure in Europe on Monday when countries proposed stricter rules to force them to block extreme material such as terrorist propaganda and child porn. A board to oversee […]Read More

As NATO Envoys Celebrate, Signs of Fracturing From WithinDavid Sanger, New York Times, April 4th, 2019To celebrate the 70th anniversary of NATO, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gathered ministers from all the nations in the military alliance on Wednesday night in the same hall where Harry S. Truman signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization pact […]Read More

Our Take ASD Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman spoke at the NATO Engages 2019 event last week. Gorman argued that NATO and its member states are not ready to face the challenges of emerging technology in the interference space, as they are constantly playing catch-up with authoritarian regimes that are employing emerging technologies to […]Read More

Paul Sandle and Elizabeth Piper, Reuters, April 7th 2019https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-tech-regulation/uk-plans-social-media-regulation-to-battle-harmful-content-idUKKCN1RJ0QR LONDON (Reuters) – Britain proposed new online safety laws on Monday that would slap penalties on social media companies and technology firms if they fail to protect their users from harmful content. Easy access to damaging material particularly among young people has caused growing concern worldwide […]Read More

A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns from the Pell Center at Salve Regina UniversitySign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here. Current operations: Fake: Conscription Notices Will be Handed Out at Voting Stations | Stop Fake How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire Of Influence Remade The World | Jonathan Mahler & Jim Rutenberg | New York […]Read More

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