RAND’s Improving C2 and Situational Awareness for Operations in and through the Information Environment A great read – RAND’s Christopher Paul, Colin Clarke, Bonnie Triezenberg, David Manheim, and Bradley Wilson latest research. The information environment (IE) is not a physical place and has not yet been defined as a warfighting domain in U.S. military doctrine. […]Read More

Defending Sovereignty and Information Space November 13th, 2018 at the Atlantic Council – Register here Russia has been exploiting agents of influence and information space to sway public opinion and mislead government actors.  In the wake of the 2016 US Presidential election, the U.S. was forced to come to terms with Russian interference in American democratic […]Read More

Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy issued a press release; An Election Update on the day prior to the mid-term elections. As part of our efforts to prevent interference on Facebook during elections, we are in regular contact with law enforcement, outside experts and other companies around the world. These partnerships, and our own investigations, […]Read More

Safeguarding U.S. elections:  Q&A with Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly The William + Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world.  The foundation’s Madison Initiative seeks to strengthen U.S. democracy and its institutions in a time of political polarization. Two […]Read More

CSIS will host a discussion which will assess what was seen and not seen in those elections. It will also examine foreign influence operations that go beyond elections to undermine other democratic institutions, such as our justice system, and democracy itself. Additionally, ways to counter this type of national security threat will be discussed. When: Thursday, […]Read More

Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy News and Commentary Our Take Laura Rosenberger joined Voice of America to discuss strategies to counter foreign interference in U.S. elections. Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly stressed the importance of securing our elections and countering authoritarian interference in American democracy on Congressman Joaquin Castro’s (TX-20) Diplomatic Cable podcast. […]Read More

RAND’s Countering Russian Social media Influence A recent report from the RAND Corporation was written by Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Todd C. Helmus, Andrew Radin, and Elina Treyger. This report analyzes different approaches and policy options to respond to the specific threat of Russian influence on social media in the U.S.  To do this, they surveyed relevant […]Read More

Active Measures #10 – A Newsletter of Political Warfare, Influence, and Information Campaigns Here are the top stories seen this week: Twitter’s Bot Problem Still Seems as Bad as Ever | Maya Kosoff | Vanity Fair Senate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA’s Russia Trip | Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman | The Daily Beast Trump […]Read More

Junk News Aggregator – Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda project One response to fake news is to systematically go about identifying and labeling it.  The how to go about it (methodology) is a critical detail in this endeavor. The University of Oxford’s Computational Propaganda lab unveiled their Junk News Aggregator yesterday. This work was funded by […]Read More

The Stimson Center will host an event highlighting a private collection of North Korean propaganda posters over the span of 50 years from 1963 to 2013 depicting North Korean domestic initiatives. The reception will be complemented with remarks by Jenny Town, Stimson Research Analyst & Managing Editor of 38 North, who will share the collector’s thoughts […]Read More