A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University Sign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here. Top stories this week: Target: AmericaRussian Trools Shift Strategy to Disrupt U.S. Election in 2020 | Alyza Sebenius | Bloomberg Russia Sought to Interfere with U.S. Election Systems in 2018 Midterms, U.S. Official […]Read More

A New #DisinfoReview from the EU East StratCom Task Force. Your weekly update on pro-Kremlin disinformation *TRENDS OF THE WEEK*Fatal Distraction It is easy to get distracted in today’s information abundance. It might be even easier in the disinformation space. ‘I will think about it tomorrow’ – have you quoted Scarlett O’Hara at some point in your life, just looking for a […]Read More

Facing Legal Scrutiny, China’s State TV Recalls Its U.S. Head Paul Mozur, New York Times, March 8th, 2019 China’s state broadcaster is recalling the head of its American arm and more than a dozen other employees back to China in a leadership shake-up as scrutiny grows in the United States over the unit’s connections to […]Read More

Why propaganda is more dangerous in the digital age Albinko Hasic, Washington Post, March 12th, 2019 The techniques are the same, but now anyone can go viral. Russian trolls can be surprisingly subtle, and often fun to read Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren, Washington Post, March 8th, 2019 On Sept. 10, 2018, @PoliteMelanie tweeted to […]Read More

Heather Conley of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published the original, The Kremlin Playbook, in 2016 to much acclaim. Her following research effort, The Kremlin Playbook 2 was just released. The report will be approximately 125 pages and is forthcoming. Her executive summary is currently available online. Heather Conley’s Monday evening event (YouTube) […]Read More

Our Take ASD Co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly spoke about how Russia, China, and other foreign governments deploy the asymmetric toolkit to subvert democracy with Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, for War on the Rocks’s Horns of a Dilemma podcast. Rosenberger and Fly […]Read More

Chris Paul, Strategy Bridge, March 11th, 2019 https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2019/3/11/is-it-time-to-abandon-the-term-information-operations The current groundswell of interest in and attention on information within the U.S. Department of Defense is unprecedented. Information has been elevated to the status of a joint function, joining the six traditional functions of command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection, and sustainment. The […]Read More

By Kimberly Underwood, The Cyber Edge, AFCEA, March 1st, 2019 The Army is working to integrate information functions into its multidomain operations. As the U.S. Army continues to evolve its newest warfighting domain, the cyber domain, information plays a key role. The service is working to incorporate information capabilities along with intelligence, electronic warfare, cyber […]Read More

A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University  Sign up for the Active Measures Newsletter here.  Top stories this week: Researcher: The West Isn’t Ready for the Coming Wave of Chinese Misinformation | Patrick Tucker | Defense One Our Elections Are Still Vulnerable to Russian Interference | Max Boot & […]Read More

The Russian “disinformation chain” starts from the very top—from Russian leadership, to Russian actors and proxies, through channels of amplification such as social media platforms, and finally to U.S. media consumers. So how can policymakers combat this threat in the United States?Read More