This week’s Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy. News and Commentary Russian GRU officers attempted to hack organization investigating the Skripal poisoning: On October 4, the Netherlands announced that it expelled four Russian military intelligence directorate (GRU) officers in April for attempting to carry out a cyber-attack on the Organization for the Prohibition of […]Read More

Seth Jones at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a brief on how to respond to Russian information warfare activities.  Take a look!Read More

This week’s Dispatch from the Alliance for Securing Democracy. News and Commentary Russian hacking group launches powerful new cyber weapon:  Fancy Bear, a hacking group linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU), has developed a powerful new cyber weapon that resists conventional counter-methods. The malware allows hackers to maintain access to a target even after a complete […]Read More

Facebook’s Q&A – … two new partnerships we recently entered into. One is with the International Republican Institute and the other is with the National Democratic Institute. The goal is to draw on the expertise from these two organizations to further assist with our international election integrity efforts for elections around the globe. Reuter’s article – […]Read More

From NATO’s Strategic Communications Center for Excellence: Have a great idea on how to detect disinformation online? Submit your idea  –  The winning team will get a 5,000 Euro prize.  Deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2018.Read More

Digital Deceit II:  A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet Digital Deceit:  A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet by Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, New America, September 24th, 2018The report develops a framework to address the digital threat to democracy and recommends a set of specific proposals. The crisis for […]Read More

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media authors Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking study what social media has been doing to politics, news, and war by tracking conflicts around the globe, studying the spread of YouTube battle clips and more. New York City – October 3th, 2018 – New America Washington DC – October 5th, 2018 – Center for Strategic […]Read More

On October 2nd, 2018, the Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event highlighting a thirty-country survey on attitudes towards the U.S.  Sign up or watch the webcast through the link below: Pew Global Attitudes Survey: America’s Public Image AbroadRead More

Several sections from the September 17th Dispatch, from the Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States. President Trump signs Executive Order on investigating and imposing sanctions for election interference: On September 12, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) to clarify and streamline the process of detecting and sanctioning foreign entities […]Read More

China’s Sharp and Soft Power Stimson Center, May 31st, 2018 A PDF summary is here A debate has emerged about the nature and impact of China’s sharp and soft power on the rest of the world and the international system. China’s sharp and soft power campaigns are global efforts aimed at creating a friendly and benevolent […]Read More