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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.…
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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…

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? 

How Trump’s Pressure on Google Threatens Government Manipulation of Search Results

Tech behemoths just can’t catch a break these days. Just as they are struggling to meet calls to contain the spread of misinformation and hate speech online, they are being bashed…

Exclusive: U.N. Human Rights Experts Meet With Facebook on “Overly Broad” Definitions of Terrorist Content

In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, U.N. Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin says networks guidelines on removing content and users need more precision and rigor…

Tech Companies Are Still Slow Walking Disclosures of Election Interference and Controlling Hate Speech

"While Facebook has made strides, the evidence suggests it needs to take bigger ones—and run rather than walk."

A U.S. GDPR? Not Even Close  

At the end of June, California enacted a new data privacy regime that some are comparing to the European Union’s recently operative General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). The…

Lawmakers in UK and US Propose Sweeping Changes to Tech Policies to Combat Misinformation

Two years after the twin historic events that rocked the global system--the Brexit referendum and the US Presidential election--lawmakers in Britain and the United States are heading…

Tech Pressure on Privacy: National Security Requires a Fuller View of Corporate Social Responsibility

The corporate world and the U.S. national security apparatus increasingly find themselves in conflict over technology and expertise, with implications for the effectiveness of…
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Information Operations are a Cybersecurity Problem: Toward a New Strategic Paradigm to Combat Disinformation

A call to shift efforts against disinformation into a cyber security paradigm, and to forge collaboration between independent academic researchers and tech companies.
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