Canada accuses Indian businessman of foreign interference, disinformation
Ankit Srivastava has been targeted by Canadian security agencies for more than a decade.
Disinformation
Russian Media on Trump Pivot: ‘We Have Won’
DEEP DIVE – As the U.S. begins a direct engagement with Russia for the first time in more than three years, and Ukrainians and other […] More
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Fact-checking and content moderation
The spread of false information can have devastating effects on our societies, undermine democratic values, polarise public opinion, and endanger health, security and the environment.
Russia’s Propaganda Army, Pitching a ‘Nightmare Scenario’ For Ukraine
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Russia boasts the world’s largest land mass, one of the world’s largest standing armies, and a weapon that it has used to great […] More
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Annie Jacobsen Gets It Wrong about Nuclear Deterrence
Annie Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, is receiving rave reviews. It portrays a scenario in which a limited North Korean nuclear strike on the United States spirals into global thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia, ultimately killing a significant portion of the world’s population. For Jacobsen, who treats her fictional scenario […]
Annie Jacobsen Gets It Wrong about Nuclear Deterrence was originally published on Global Security Review.
Russia in Africa: An atlas
Russia’s policies and interests in the African continent have evolved over the years.
Thinking Global Podcast – Elena Şimanschi
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.
[DISINFORMATION ALERT] Israel-Hamas war causes deluge of dis- and misinformation
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…
Political Disinformation and AI
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…
U.S. warns of Chinese disinformation campaign. What does it look like?
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.