The autumn of Russia’s discontent
We’ve had a sustained and persistent wave of protests over plans to raise Russia’s retirement age, writes CEPA’s Brian Whitmore. Just six months into Putin’s fourth term in the Kremlin, his… Read more »
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Counter influence strategies for combating disinformation
The potential for Russian hacking of election systems in the 2018 midterm elections has emerged as an urgent and destabilizing issue in the run-up to the U.S. elections, CodaStory reports…. Read more »
Combating information warfare is a bipartisan issue
Deciding how to combat information warfare should not be a partisan issue, argues Renee DiResta, the director of research at New Knowledge, citing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence policy… Read more »
West should not risk Europe’s ‘in-between’ states
To this day, many in the West see regional order through the lens of the democratic transitions in East Central Europe (ECE), say the authors of a new RAND paper on European… Read more »
How Democracy Ends – ‘in its sleep’?
Central Europe is going backwards, with populism, nationalism and “illiberal democracy” on the rise. That is the consensus among many opinion leaders in Western Europe and North America, notes CEPA’s… Read more »
Diluting disinformation: ‘no quick fixes’
A new EU fake news initiative will recommend engaging with social media companies to agree and enforce a new code of practice on fake news or disinformation, reports suggest: The… Read more »
Anatomy of hybrid warfare: how disinformation corrodes democracies
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed contrition for allowing third-party apps to grab the data of its users without their permission and for being “too slow to spot and respond… Read more »
Putin’s ‘strategy of chaos’ drives disinformation ops
Russia has firmly established itself as a democratic society following the path of freedom and independence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said – without a trace of irony – in his… Read more »
Social media aids Putin’s ‘postmodern war against the West’
In a rare move, some members of the British Parliament are traveling to Washington this week to question Facebook, Google and Twitter about fake news and the spread of misinformation on… Read more »
Reviving the Propaganda State: How the Kremlin hijacked history
Are Western actions to blame for the steady deterioration in U.S.-Russia relations? While the Kremlin’s view of the West has long been hostile, the spread of “color revolutions” in the… Read more »