Iain King CBE, Defence Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington D.C., February 12, 2019, Strategy Bridgehttps://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2019/2/12/what-do-cognitive-biases-mean-for-deterrenceSome highlights: Humans make poor decisions—not just sometimes, but systematically—and new insights into these cognitive biases have implications for deterrence. … the War Department was making a common mistake now known as survivorship bias. … Survivorship bias is one of […]Read More

RadioFreeEurope’s reporting is here and here. New York Times coverage is here. Associated Press file is here. Fox News report is here. RT, Russia TodayMarch 7th, 2019https://www.rt.com/russia/453243-duma-fake-news-law/ Spreading fake information and insulting the Russian state could result in hefty fines for individuals and organizations, according to a new law, adopted by the lower house of […]Read More

Issie Lapowsky and Nicholas Thompson, Wired, March 6th, 2019 https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-zuckerberg-privacy-pivot/ If there’s one choice that Facebook has made repeatedly over the past 15 years, it’s been to prioritize growth over privacy. Users were consistently encouraged to make more of their information public than they were comfortable with. The settings to make things public were always […]Read More

Hungary’s leader calls EU parliament critics ‘useful idiots’ David Rising and Pablo Gorondi from the AP in the Washington Post, March 3rd, 2019 Hungary’s populist prime minister described members of a European Union political group who want his party expelled as “useful idiots,” saying in an interview published Sunday they are playing into the hands […]Read More

Reuters in the New York Times, March 5th, 2019 BEIJING — In a bright red office in south Beijing, some of China’s most studious Communist Party members are gathered around their smartphones. The focus of their attention is a range of mobile apps and websites which allow them to study the speeches of Chinese President […]Read More

Propaganda 2.0: Chinese Communist Party’s Message Gets Tech Upgrade Reuters in the New York Times, March 5th, 2019 In a bright red office in south Beijing, some of China’s most studious Communist Party members are gathered around their smartphones. The focus of their attention is a range of mobile apps and websites which allow them […]Read More

Our Take ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and Co-Director Jamie Fly spoke at the George W. Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs last week. They also gave an interview to “Think,” a program on Dallas’ KERA radio, on lessons learned from the […]Read More

Schieffer Series: The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablershttps://www.csis.org/events/schieffer-series-kremlin-playbook-2-enablers A discussion with Heather Conley,  Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program, CSIS Juan Zarate,  Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project and Human Rights Initiative, CSIS Moderated by Bob Schieffer, CSIS Trustee Monday, March 11, 2019 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Center […]Read More

Andrew Kramer, March 2nd, 2019, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/europe/russia-hybrid-war-gerasimov.html MOSCOW — The chief of Russia’s armed forces endorsed on Saturday the kind of tactics used by his country to intervene abroad, repeating a philosophy of so-called hybrid war that has earned him notoriety in the West, especially among American officials who have accused Russia of […]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 for this week:  How a Private Israeli Intelligence Firm Spied on Pro-Palestinian Activists in the U.S. | Adam Entous | The New Yorker Malicious Use of Social Media: Case Studies From BBC Monitoring […]Read More