Our Take ASD Senior Fellow Joshua Kirschenbaum published a digital brief on the national security dangers of opaque foreign investment, arguing that “undeclared foreign investments allow malign actors to cultivate political influence, gain economic leverage, infiltrate the government procurement process, and obtain access to and influence over strategic sectors.” While the United States is poised […]Read More
Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon (IPA member)The Art of Peace: Engaging a Complex WorldWednesday, April 3rd, 2019 – 7:30pm to 8:45pmWestminster Institute, 6729 Curran Street, McLean, VA, 22101RSVP Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, teaches at American University, and IPA leader. For several decades, she has been […]Read More
A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaignsfrom the Pell Center at Salve Regina UniversitySign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here. Protecting ElectionsIn Ukraine and Beyond, Democracy Requires Both Freedom and Security | April Gordon | Freedom House #DisinfoWeek – Protecting Democratic Elections | Disinfo Portal Leading Ukraine Candidate Fights ‘Fakes With Fakes’ As Facebook Tests […]Read More
Richard Fontaine and Kara Fredericks, March 15th, 2019, Center for a New American Security https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/the-autocrats-new-tool-kit Chinese authorities are now using the tools of big data to detect departures from “normal” behavior among Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region—and then to identify each supposed deviant for further state attention. The Egyptian government plans to relocate from […]Read More
Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Ronen Bergman and Nicole Perlroth, March 21st, 2019, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/politics/government-hackers-nso-darkmatter.html Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on the tools — sometimes for darker purposes. The man in charge of Saudi Arabia’s ruthless campaign to stifle dissent […]Read More
Inside Russia’s online propaganda machine Charles Maynes, PRI, March 16th, 2019 https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-16/mole-among-trolls-inside-russias-online-propaganda-machine Long before Americans heard about Russians using social media as part of a broader interference campaign in the 2016 US presidential elections, the Kremlin was trolling its own citizens. For years, reports have surfaced of nondescript buildings in St. Petersburg and Moscow that […]Read More
Apple press release, March 19th, 2019https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-teams-with-media-literacy-programs-in-the-us-and-europe/ New Initiative to Encourage Critical Thinking and Empower Students to be Better Informed Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a new initiative in support of leading nonprofit organizations in the US and Europe that offer nonpartisan, independent media literacy programs. The News Literacy Project (NLP) and Common Sense in […]Read More
Thou Shall Stop! is not a strategy Matt Armstrong, March 18th, 2019, https://mountainrunner.us/2019/03/thou-shall-stop-is-not-a-strategy/ Articles appear periodically on how the United States, or its allies, could improve its game in today’s decentralized information environment. So many that it is often hard to keep up, so if I criticize one here — like I’m about to do — […]Read More
Kevin Truitte, Georgetown University Security Studies Review March 11th, 2019 http://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/03/11/an-american-national-information-security-strategy/ In today’s Digital Age, information is a potent weapon. American adversaries such as Russia and China understand the power of information and seek to manipulate it to their advantage. From injecting or magnifying divisive messages in social media to penetrating government networks to steal […]Read More
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