Catch up with the latest explainer from Dina Sadek & Graham Brookie on the evolution of Russian malign influence efforts & US government responses, and what we can anticipate in the months ahead. Read more on how the US caught Russia red-handed ✋⛔: bit.ly/47GV7mY
US government agencies outlined significant actions taken against Kremlin-sponsored efforts to interfere with the election
2024 is a historic year for elections, with nearly half the world’s population voting. In our latest Policy Brief, ISD examines the critical role of key stakeholders and their strategies to safeguard the electoral process from online threats. www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...
In our latest Policy Brief, ISD examines the critical role of key stakeholders and their strategies to safeguard the 2024 electoral process from online threats.
Concerns over how Facebook’s “break glass” measures may have impacted efforts to study its role in the 2020 US election highlight how little we know about those measures. But Dean Jackson says there are some fragments available: www.techpolicy.press/we-know-a-li...
Dean Jackson is a fellow at Tech Policy Press.
〝In short, the SDA did not keep running campaigns and receiving funding despite being repeatedly exposed. It was able to keep running campaigns precisely because its work was exposed by its adversaries.〞 #Russia#Doppelganger#disinformation#strategy#infops
JUST OUT — September was a wild month for scholars of modern covert influence operations. No longer do we have to rely on a campaign's digital footprints alone. My first analysis of ~3K leaked internal files and fresh FBI evidence on "Doppelganger." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/lies-...
The country’s propagandists target the West—but mislead the kremlin, too.
📢 On this International Day for Universal Access to Information, I have joined over 150 researchers from 41 countries highlight the growing threat to research on disinformation. informationdemocracy.org/2024/09/27/s...
On the occasion of International day for universal access to information, the Observatory publishes a call from 150 researchers across 41 countries to raise the alarm against threats and barriers […]
It's September 2024, and a swarm of spammy X accounts is spamming people's replies with oddly repetitive attacks on Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris. conspirator0.substack.com/p/these-kama...
In which a low-effort spam network floods the replies of popular X accounts with duplicate attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate
OSoMe Awesome Speakers returns next week! We're starting off strong with a talk from Jo Lukito, "Challenges and Solutions for Multi-Platform Studies of Election Discourse" Register at iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...osome.iu.edu/events/speak...
〝In a new paper published Thursday, a group of independent researchers found that while Meta may be able to effectively filter “untrustworthy” political content, frequent algorithm changes make it hard to come to definitive conclusions about what works.〞 #socialMedia#Facebook#Meta#misinfo
Just weeks from the 2024 US presidential election, local officials are increasingly vocal in their concern about misinformation.
Good overview of election integrity and infop countermeasure actions/policies across significant platforms.
As we enter the final stages of a volatile election, ISD assesses how social media platforms are rising to the challenge - or missing the mark - in safeguarding democracy ⬇️ Read our new report now: www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...
Ahead of the 2024 US election, ISD assessed platform policies and found a concerning lack of transparency in areas like safety, resourcing and integrity.
