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U.S. Navy signs Charles River Analytics to detect informational warfare
LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Intelligent-systems developer Charles River Analytics (CRA) and the Office for Naval Research (ONR) have announced that CRA has won a contract...
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Disinformation: How It Works
Oldie but goodie. Most of this is spot on and a great primer for anyone interested in this field. The author’s later works are more… mystical. </end editorial> Thursday, 09 August 2012 03:15...
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What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
Revelations that Russia used Facebook ads and events in 2016 underscores what little we know. By Robert Schlesinger, Managing Editor for Opinion | Sept. 15, 2017, at 6:00 a.m. The Russia scandal...
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d U.S. and 16 other national anti-doping agencies call for banning Russia...
By Marissa Payne September 15 A day after the World Anti-Doping Agency dismissed 95 cases of suspected Russian doping, citing lack of evidence, 16 national anti-doping organizations, including the U.S....
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (308) – 17 September 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Gen Pavel comments on Zapad 2017, Coyle on the UN Donbass peacekeeper play, while Amb Volker does a stellar job of...
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Merkel braced for Russian cyber-attack as German election looms
What really caught my eye in this article is a reference to “The Sputnik Report”, ordered by Angela Merkel. After the incident, Merkel commissioned the German secret services to investigate Russian...
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Intelligence, Politicization, and the Russia Probe
I was an intelligence professional for decades. I had a lot of pride in being absolutely a neutral, trying to be objective, fair, and unbiased in every way. During the last two decades, I have seen...
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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 16 Sep 07
WEEK 44: Building more walls in Baghdad. Knocking down walls in the headquarters. Man in the Middle During a section update this week, the Battle Captain in the Command Information Center briefed us...
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How to Wage an Information War
September 18, 2017 8:38 AM Jamie Dettmer KYIV — “One clear lesson is that you can’t fight propaganda with propaganda,” says Tetiana Popova. “If you do that you lose credibility yourself and bring all...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (309) – 18 September 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Four nice essays on Zapad 2017, plus some Russian propaganda. UN peacekeeper for Donbass debate continues – again COCW on...
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President Trump Takes Aim at North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’
09-19-2017 President Donald Trump used his first United Nations general assembly address to warn North Korea of potential destruction if it doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program. The speech was...
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Samantha Power: Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now
By SAMANTHA POWER SEPT. 19, 2017 When George Washington gave his Farewell Address in 1796, he urged the American people “to be constantly awake” to the risk of foreign influence. In the wake of...
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The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017 Politics, Propaganda and People’s...
Propaganda “THE CRITICAL ISSUE FACING the Bolsheviks in 1917 was not merely the seizure of power but the seizure of meaning.” –Victoria E. Bonnell in “Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (310) – 19 September 2017
I’m back. Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. Keep sending your tips, hints, and thoughts. </end editorial> A most interesting address to the UN GA by POTUS – putting the DPRK...
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Anatomy of a Russian attack: From robocalls to hoaxes, a look at tactics used
By J.J. Green | @JJGreenWTOP September 20, 2017 4:40 am WASHINGTON — In the early hours of Feb. 13, 2017, just after returning home from a trip to Africa earlier in the month, David Pollock woke up to...
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Crafting an information warfare and counter-propaganda strategy for the...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities [Browse] Format: Book Language: English Published/ Created: Washington : U.S....
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Serbia: disinformation as political strategy
Media lynching for those who do not toe the government line, judicial authorities that do not protect citizens, independent journalists accused of conspiracy. This is Vučić’s Serbia 19/09/2017 –...
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Only Human Hands Can Craft Effective Information Offensives
The title of this piece is slightly off and it threw me off while reading this article. The author addresses this in one sentence: Some human had to actually plan out what the Facebook page is going...
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MILNEWS.ca Highlights – September 20, 2017
Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight #CANvsISIL/The Kurds DND’s latest on Operation IMPACT “Barzani gives Baghdad ultimatum: Provide alternative in 3 days or vote proceeds” “Barzani: If we receive...
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This Week’s Highlights From OCCRP
Donate & Support The Fight Against Corruption OCCRP on iPhone | OCCRP on Android Gold And Chaos In Orinoco A joint investigation by Efecto Cocuyo and OCCRP explores the Orinoco Mining Arc- the...
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