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A passenger reads a paper featuring images of different facial expressions of then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while riding in a subway carriage in Saint-Petersburg, on March 5, 2012. (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian AI-generated propaganda struggles to find an audience

A long-running Kremlin propaganda campaign is experimenting with AI to create phony news sites but isn’t reaching a significant audience.

Dec 5, 2023 By Elias Groll

A version of the “North Atlantic Fellas Organization” meme shows riffs on a meeting of the G-7 leaders. (via KnowYourMeme)

To win the internet, the Pentagon’s info ops need more humanity and a dash of absurdity

U.S. information operations should dispense with deception and obfuscation and embrace truth as well as the absurdity of meme culture.

Nov 14, 2022 By Gavin Wilde

IBM logo. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)

IBM joins other tech giants and removes Russian state controlled network from its cloud service

An IBM spokesperson said it was "unaware" of its cloud platform's involvement, and took "steps" to make sure RT content was not available via its services

Jul 12, 2022

Uighur rights activist Nursimangul Abdureshid poses during an interview in Istanbul on March 12, 2022. She lost contact with her family back in China in 2018 and has been unable to find them. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese state media propaganda found in 88% of Google, Bing news searches

Brookings researchers conducted their study over 120 days.

May 31, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley

A young girl passes by a destroyed apartment building in Bakhmut in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas on May 22, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The city is now occupied by Russian forces, and a target of the Russian disinformation operations. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Network of hyperlocal Russian Telegram channels spew disinformation in occupied Ukraine

Research published by a Ukrainian think tank shows a network of at least 88 local Telegram channels.

May 23, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley

web domain, internet domain, web browser, http — (Getty Images)

US seizes more domains with ties to suspected Iranian influence campaign

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unlawfully used the domains in operations to "covertly influence" opinions in the U.S. and elsewhere, says the Department of Justice.

Nov 5, 2020 By Joe Warminsky

Why social media disinformation represents such a security threat

Media literacy could be the key to fending off the next generation of information operations.

Oct 20, 2020 By Jeff Stone

Chinese accounts blast Trump, with help from AI-generated pictures

The same campaign previously criticized pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong.

Aug 13, 2020 By Jeff Stone

Anti-NATO disinformation effort uses coronavirus to poke political tensions

A new report from FireEye does not attribute the effort to the Russian government, though the motives are consistent.

Jul 29, 2020 By Jeff Stone

labour party ddos — Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn cited documents that had been spread by Russian actors during a 2019 campaign for prime minister. (Sophie Brown/Wikicommons)

UK ‘almost certain’ that 2019 election was target of Russian disinformation operation

The statement from the Secretary of State did not name the Russian government specifically.

Jul 16, 2020 By Jeff Stone