Disinformation
Telesur’s Pro-Iran Propaganda
On October 7, Hamas launched its murderous pogrom against Israel. Right on cue, Venezuela’s state-owned news channel Telesur TV, Maduro’s global news outlet, immediately began to peddle pro-Iranian, pro-Hamas, and...
Is the ‘Hot Mic Incident’ Really About Freedom of the Press?
While stressing the importance of freedom, President Yoon Suk-yeol’s office inquired about the process by which a broadcasting company reported fake news regarding the so-called “hot mic incident.” Some have...
Why the Pentagon’s Disinformation Campaigns Crashed and Burned
The Pentagon announced this week that it will conduct a full-scale evaluation of its psychological operations capabilities, following revelations that it has been conducting covert online disinformation campaigns. Alongside analyzing...
How to End the Harm Caused by Unchecked Algorithms
An image of an injured Ukrainian social media influencer staggering from the rubble of a maternity hospital struck by Russian forces has become a new symbol of the global disinformation...
Key Lessons From the Proliferation of Disinformation
If it was not already evident that disinformation campaigns should be taken seriously as a security threat, the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election brought...
American-Born Disinformation is Harming U.S. Allies—Just Ask the Baltics.
There’s a saying that when the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold. Now some of the world’s most robust immune systems are struggling with a bad case of...
Worried About Disinformation? Let’s Get Strategic
Conspiracies pushed by QAnon played a key role in the January attack on the U.S. Congress. Disinformation about coronavirus has fueled what some have called an infodemic. Both events are...