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Election Security is an Immediate National Security Concern

Democracy isn’t in the casting of the votes -- it’s in the counting. Georgia State Rep. Scott Holcomb says we need to ensure that our system is secure and every ballot is counted…

Psy-Ops, Meet Cyber-Ops: U.S. Takes on Russian Trolls

A Russian troll sits down at his desktop and logs into one of the social media accounts he uses to impersonate and radicalize Americans. Suddenly, a direct message appears: “Hello,…

Two New Reports Expose How Black Americans Are Targeted by Russian Disinformation

Russian disinformation exploits American racial divisions. But Russian manipulation of both sides of political spectrum may, in the end, galvanize social media companies and Congress…

New Method, Same Strategy: Russia Has Long Exploited U.S. Racial Divisions

While the use of social media is new, Russia has a long history of highlighting the conflict between American ideals of equality and the reality of racial injustice in this country.…

U.S. Libel Case Over Russian Poisoning Takes Aim at Kremlin Propaganda

A lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleges defamation by two Kremlin-controlled television stations widely available in the United States concerning the infamous poisoning…
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Planning for ‘Cyber Fallout’ After the Iranian Nuclear Deal

Keep your cyber tools close, your history books closer. For some, the signing of the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal might appear as a “watershed moment” for abating the…
Political activist Katharina Nocun, speaking under a banner that reads: "No to a German NSA" and showing a picture of U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden, leads a protest against pending legislation expanding the legal surveillance capabilities of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND) outside the Reichstag on September 26, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. Protesters behind her hold additional signs.

On Big Brother Watch v. U.K.: The Future of Surveillance at Two Europe-Wide Courts

A recent opinion by the European Court of Human Rights was more limited than recent decisions concerning surveillance. The European Court of Justice should seize the opportunity…
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Exploring Gray Zones and LikeWar

"This is a book about how a new kind of communications became a new kind of war,” Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking write in their new book: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social…

The Politics of Trump’s Mismatched Response to Election Interference

With just over a month until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump took to the UN Security Council to call out an adversary in the room for interfering in our elections.…

New U.K. Law Fails European Court Standards on Mass Interception Disclosed by Snowden

The U.K. government trots out its new surveillance legislation as curing the ills identified by the European Court of Human Rights. That's not the case. The Court’s judgment…

So, You Want to Do Something About Russian Election Interference?

If this White House were actually serious about tackling foreign interference in our elections, what would it do? 

Putin Had a Win-Win Strategy for Life Post-2016; Trump, Not So Much

Putin didn't just count on Clinton losing. He also counted on her winning. Three former U.S. Intelligence Community officials analyze Putin's likely strategic thinking in 2016…
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