Chris Doten from the National Democratic Institute has recent blog entry on online disinformation.  A summary of his short post: Garbage in, garbage out – our democratic systems are dependent on the input of citizens, but when disinformation is also an input, the outputs of our processes can be deeply flawed – disinformation is about […]Read More

The Center for a New American Security released a report on China’s use of coercive economic measures.  The report offers prescriptive actions at the end.  An IPA summary is also offered.Read More

  Alliance for Securing Democracy – Weekly Dispatch Facebook and Twitter attempt to improve political advertising on their platforms: Facebook announced steps to further increase the transparency of ads and Pages on its platform. Viewers will now be able to see the ads that a Page is running across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and partner networks, […]Read More

This event provides an on opportunity to demonstrate potential products and technologies applicable to Operations in the Information Environment to members of the Joint Staff and services.  See message on this event sent below: Notice of Request for Information on Technologies to Support Operations in the Information Environment AGENCY: Department of the Army, Department of […]Read More

Countering Weaponized Information Middle East Institute event in January, 2018 including several well known experts: – Charles Lister, moderator – Shadi Hamid, Brookings – Nancy Payne, PeaceTech Lab – Haroon Ullah, BBG IPA SUMMARY HERE Countering Weaponizing Information – Mobile technologies for consuming and spreading information are empowering individuals and nonstate actors in politics and in conflicts. […]Read More

Online Information Laundering: The Role of Social Media By Kirill Meleshevich and Bret Schafer The Alliance for Security Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the U.S., put forth a policy brief in January, 2018 that compares Russian active measures and traditional money laundering schemes. The policy brief is here. IPA SUMMARY HERE Revelations that the Kremlin […]Read More

We’re happy to forward opportunities for Information Professionals received from other members and below are two items recently sent to me.  Please reach out to the relevant organizations for more details. Mike Williams Information Professional Opportunities The Global Institute for IT Management (http://www.globaliim.com/) is looking for faculty interested in teaching business analytics, blockchain, and robotics process automation. Anyone […]Read More

This has been around for awhile and even if you haven’t heard of this ‘fake porn’ problem, you almost certainly have heard of video/audio editing to make it appear that an individual has said or done something they, in fact, have never done. The inimitable Lawfareblog.com takes on the issue of “deep fakes.”  Highly recommend […]Read More

From an article published today in TechWorld: “Every asshole on the face of the planet has complete and open and unrestricted access to our public social media data – everybody except the United States government.” That’s the verdict of senior information scientist at the RAND Corporation, Dr Rand Waltzman, speaking about the state of ‘cognitive […]Read More

The event will be held in Washington D.C. on 21 March.  Look for details under events by end of the week. Trust and distrust as two separate, but related, concepts are critical to Cognitive Security.  Our Cognitive Security depends on our acting with confidence based on who we trust and who we distrust in the […]Read More