Russia in Africa: An atlas
Russia’s policies and interests in the African continent have evolved over the years.
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Russia’s policies and interests in the African continent have evolved over the years.
Elena Şimanschi speaks about (dis)information, what its major mechanism are, how it materialises, its connection with emotion and memory, and reveals her empirical findings.
Social media, and it seems particularly X (former Twitter) seems to drown in an almost instant deluge of disinformation caused by the horrendous Israel-Hamas war that broke out last weekend. Unfortunately this is going to be used for social en…
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence.
Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. Over the next seven years, a number of countries—most prominently China and Iran—used social media to influence foreign elections, both in the US and elsewhere in the world. There’s no reason to expect 2023 and 2024 to be any different…
In a first-of-its-kind report, the U.S. State Department last week laid out Beijing’s tactics and techniques for molding public opinion.
Dustin Volz from the WSJ dropped a huge scoop today. This is rocket fuel infosec budget ammo I would send to my C-suite in a New York minute. They said: “Fake authors, bot armies and lawsuits are among the tactics Beijing employs to reshape th…
The democratic information sphere has undergone a rapid and profound evolution over the course of the past two decades.
WIRED just came out with an article that spells out the coming tsunami of highly targeted disinformation. here is a short summary and the article is highly recommended:
Will Data Poisoning Be the Next Frontier for Cyberattacks and Misinformation?
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The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards. A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine. The gang used […]
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