Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
Banning Russia from the 2016 Olympics makes sense. It is unfair to those athletes who remained clean and through hard work, are at the top of their field. Their government, Russia, however, damned...
View ArticleRussian Agent Sentenced for Illegally Exporting US High-tech Gear
FILE – Alexander Fishenko, left, owner of ARC Electronics Inc., hides behind another inmate as they are escorted from the federal courthouse in Houston, Oct. 10, 2012. VOA News July 21, 2016 8:00 PM A...
View ArticleTech for Jihad: Dissecting Jihadists’ Digital Toolbox
By Laith Alkhouri & Alex Kassire July 2016 Introduction Over the past two years, the media has tended to sensationalize jihadists’ rapid adoption and strategic use of social media. Despite...
View ArticleFull-Scale Democratic Response to Hostile Disinformation Operations
Full-Scale Democratic Response to Hostile Disinformation Operations: 50 Measures to Oust Kremlin Hostile Disinformation Influence out of Europe This paper has been consulted with several dozens of...
View ArticleHow Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American...
Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election. Close your eyes and imagine that a hacking...
View ArticleRIA Novosti and ISIS Lie About Downed US Plane
Russia, your state-owned and controlled media has been caught in yet another straight up lie. Media: in Iraq shot down a US military airplane US warplanes shot down in Anbar province in Iraq – TV I...
View ArticleChina Bans Internet News Reporting as Media Crackdown Widens
Bloomberg News July 25, 2016 China’s top internet regulator ordered major online companies including Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to stop original news reporting, the latest effort by the...
View ArticleThe Bear in Sheep’s Clothing: Russia’s Government-Funded Organisations in the EU
Research Paper This paper sheds light on organisations operating in Europe that are funded by the Russian government, whether officially or unofficially. These include government-organised...
View ArticleRachel Marsden Is “Officially” A Russian Troll
Recall the Russian Troll, Rachel Marsden, who I reviewed first here: Pardon me, your bias is showing. As a result, I was flooded with input from readers from all over the world, who detested, and...
View ArticleWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his next leak will virtually destroy...
I had a pleasant chat with a reporter this evening, who was trying to grasp the basic concepts of Russian Information Warfare for his readers. Assuming Russia is behind this mass email disclosure to...
View ArticleDisinformation Review – Issue 36 – 26 July 2016
Issue 36 – 26 July 2016 Year One – Disinformation Review This week, we attach the master-table containing all the disinformation stories reported to us over the last ten months – 174 pages worth! The...
View ArticleUkraine’s Forgotten War
The Daily Vertical: Ukraine’s Forgotten War (Transcript) July 26, 2016 Don’t look now but it’s been one hell of a deadly month in the Donbas. I know it’s easy to miss given all the excitement...
View ArticleRussian Hackers Altered Emails Before Release to Wikileaks
Source: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images July 25, 2016 Tim Peacock New evidence is emerging that content from the DNC emails accessed by Russian hackers may have been altered before being released to...
View ArticleRussian trolls attack Americans
Article by: Kseniya Kirillova 2016/07/27 Mass media have often reported on the attack of Russian trolls on Ukrainian and western information resources. An army of paid bots leaves comments on the...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind Russian Support for World’s Separatist Movements?
by MANSUR MIROVALEV MOSCOW — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is just the beginning, if some in the Kremlin have their way. Northern Irish, Scottish, Basque, Catalan and Italian...
View ArticleLinkedIn, Russian Trolls, and Russian bias
LinkedIn Trolling. In today’s article, Russian trolls attack Americans by Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova, she lays out the obvious bias of LinkedIn against my friends and me in our effort to...
View ArticleIt looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reuters Natasha Bertrand Russia’s troll factories were, at one point, likely being paid by the Kremlin to spread pro-Trump propaganda on social media. That is what...
View ArticleN. Korea floats propaganda leaflets in river for 1st time
By HYUNG-JIN KIM – Associated Press – Wednesday, July 27, 2016 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea on Wednesday accused rival North Korea of floating propaganda leaflets down a river in the first...
View ArticleThat Propaganda Program Bill Clinton Praised Hillary for? It Was Considered a...
Getty Images Many Islamists online made fun of the State Department’s efforts to counter online radical recruiting. By Jacob Silverman July 27, 2016 In a breezy speech celebrating his wife’s...
View ArticleSecurity experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
by John Biggs (@johnbiggs) Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys Key escrow — the process of keeping a set of keys for yourself “just in case” — has always been the U.S. government’s...
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