SPOTLIGHT STORY→Bad actors use disinformation to exploit divisive issues in our societies and disrupt our democracies. @saiphcita@AmyRuckes and Eber Betanzos look at how bad actors use identity and immigration to target the Native American community. https://t.co/IKsbh36CYy
SPOTLIGHT STORY→Bad actors use disinformation to exploit divisive issues in our societies and disrupt our democracies. @saiphcita@AmyRuckes and Eber Betanzos look at how bad actors use identity and immigration to target the Native American community. https://t.co/IKsbh36CYy
Yesterday, it was 130th birthday of Karel Čapek, perhaps the best Czech author in history. He had a lot to say on propaganda and disinformation, too https://t.co/8LWpijmBAT @DisinfoPortal (translated by @mlrchtr)
SPOTLIGHT STORY → @kalenskyj looks back at disinformation during 2019. Increases in information laundering; new actors monitoring and adopting Kremlin tactics and strategies; and improving but inadequate responses from Western governments. https://t.co/bNbfggunaM
Activities of pro-Russian activists, including disinformation, are the biggest threat for the constitutionality of the Czech Republic, as highlighted by @biscz. My last in 2019 for @DisinfoPortal https://t.co/xSbvimRDeZ
ICYMI → In the lead-up to May's EU elections, disinformation spread throughout the digital ecosystem. Alex Romero of @AltoAnalytics analyzes the patterns and forms this strategy took as Europeans prepared to go to the polls. https://t.co/R7Z5pFtP0I
"The inability we still have to manage social media is an impediment to getting a grasp on this problem. One thing we don’t want to do is mess with our long-established freedoms in an effort to deal with a very specific problem." @JohnEdHerbst
"The problem is that the old techniques of the Soviet Union have been updated. They were effective in the 1930s because of the divisions in our society – and that hasn’t changed." – Amb. Daniel Fried @AtlanticCouncil
We're back! And we are joined by @OlofsdotterK @vseviov@apolyakova & @jeangene_vilmer to discuss the European approach to “prevention, protection and resiliency” when it comes to tackling foreign interference. https://t.co/0YP7EpYLlX
WATCH NOW: DFRLab’s @GrahamBrookie joins a conference on “Addressing Foreign Interference: Best Practices and Gaps to be Closed,” happening now at the @AtlanticCouncil.
https://t.co/yVF1TU9w5v
LIVE NOW - Hostile foreign governments routinely interfere in elections and engage disinformation campaigns that seek to distort, distract & destabilize. @AtlanticCouncil & @HeinzCollege bring experts together to develop solutions to this challenge. https://t.co/bw8Juc02gV
Must-read from @apolyakova on how Russia may outflank China in teaching autocrats to spy using cheaper, simpler technology. #DefendDemocracy
https://t.co/JLDoU7P1YX
Cc @DFRLab@ACEurasia
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SPOTLIGHT STORY → While Apple's recent labeling of Crimea as part of Russia grabbed headlines, it is not the only tech company to aid the Kremlin in its war on reality. @kalenskyj examines how the tech giants are normalizing the Kremlin's propaganda. https://t.co/a4RMKAd6wO