Book Launch: Small Wars, Big Data – The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict Center for Strategic and International Studies Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Seth G. Jones, Director, CSIS – Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University RSVP here The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. […]Read More

Weekly round-up of cognitive security-related articles from the Washington Post. How Trump, ISIS and Russia have mastered the Internet as a weapon Washington Post, Book Review, Leigh Giangreco, November 29th, 2018 [The book] “LikeWar” begins with Donald Trump’s first tweet in 2009, announcing, “Be sure to tune in and watch Donald Trump on Late Night with David […]Read More

Weekly round-up of cognitive security-related articles from the New York Times. House Republican Campaign Committee Says It Was Hacked This Year New York Times, David E. Sanger and Emily Cochrane – December 4th, 2018 The campaign committee for House Republicans discovered in April that the email accounts of several of its senior officials had been hacked by […]Read More

Can Soft Power Work in a Sharp Power World? The U.S. Institute of Peace held their seventh Bipartisan Congressional Dialogue last week to answer this very question with: – Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) – Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) IPA SUMMARY HERE Soft power, the appeal of a country’s culture and values to enhance its strength and influence, […]Read More

Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy News and Commentary Our Take On Tuesday, December 4, ASD will launch the Authoritarian Interference Tracker, a new interactive tool that analyzes the Russian government’s interference operations in 42 countries across the transatlantic space over the past two decades. If you would like to register for this launch […]Read More

A periodic series to highlight current research efforts in cognitive security. Project Information Literacy Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. They examine how college students find and use information – their needs, strategies, practices, and […]Read More

Younger Americans are better than older Americans at telling factual news statements from opinions By Jeffrey Gottfried and Elizabeth Grieco, Pew Research Center While some say wisdom comes with age, younger Americans are better than their elders at separating factual from opinion statements in the news. In a survey conducted Feb. 22 to March 4, […]Read More

Active Measures #14 – A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns Here are the top stories seen this week: Wave of Disinformation from the Azov Sea | EU vs. Disinfo Russian Hackers Haven’t Stopped Probing the US Power Grid | Lily Hay Newman | Wired The Fake News Inquiry Chair Says He’s Seen Evidence A […]Read More

A View from the Digital Trenches – Lessons from Year One of Hamilton 68 Bret Schafer, November 19th, 2018, German Marshall Fund of the U.S. – Hamilton 68 – Activity from 600 monitored Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations. – Lessons from Year One of Hamilton 68 The Russian government’s active measures campaign during the 2016 U.S. […]Read More

Countering Adversary Attacks on Democracy – It’s Not Just About Elections with Senator Mark Warner The Center for Strategic and International Studies held this event on November 15th with: Mark Warner, U.S. Senator from Virginia, Vice Chairman—Select Committee on Intelligence​ ​ Harvey Rishikof​, Advisory Board Chairman, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security ​IPA […]Read More