... Department of State, a group of researchers released a report called "
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Foreign State-Sponsored Disinformation in the Digital Age
." The report mostly focused on foreign states’ propaganda, disinformation and fake news. Taking into account the upcoming US elections, the report can provide practical recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders.
Christina Nemr and William Gangware: "
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Foreign State-Sponsored Disinformation ...
... the analysis of challenges to the information spaces of Russia and the UK, the rules of conduct in the information space, and media codes in Russia and the UK, the development of social networks and their influence, the creation, spread and effects of fake news in both countries
On January 20, 2020, in Moscow, RIAC held the final workshop of the bilateral Russia-UK security project. The project started in 2016 and completed its fourth cycle on January 20, 2020. RIAC partner in the project is the ...
... acquisition of information, but it also sets fundamentally new requirements for both producers and consumers of media content.
Modern news media often do not have the opportunity to conduct a thorough fact check of the information received. As a result, fake news is born, which often becomes a tool for manipulating public consciousness. The use of machine learning allows to produce such content in truly industrial quantities and constantly improve the quality. At the same time, fakes have ceased to be ...
... (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) to create an
AI-based filter
to “stamp out fake-news outlets before the stories spread too widely.”
Sergey Karelov:
AI Nationalism and AI Nationalization Are ahead
But what exactly constitutes fake news? Does it include media-colluded lies over Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction in 2002? Or the egregiously fraudulent
Nurse Nayirah
testimony a decade earlier? Will the
binary logic
of “you are either with us, or against us” ...
... Literature Library: It had to move to the building of the U.S. Embassy in central Moscow.
3. The Russia–West information warfare
Robert Legvold:
U.S.-Russia Relations: The Price of Cold War
“The idea that Russia did not meddle in our election is fake news,”
said Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) last summer. The U.S. political establishment has no doubts that Russia interfered in the American presidential campaign.
However, the Kremlin repeatedly
denies these accusations
, with many Russian pundits ...
... influence in particular. This interest has increased dramatically over the past few years. The authors of the report cite extensively from Clint Watts’s Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. Watts, a former FBI operative, described the recent changes to the Washington ecosystem in
a recent podcast interview
. According to him, prior to the 2016 presidential election, Washington’s main fad was cybersecurity, which had replaced ...
The seminar in 2018 focused on hybrid warfare, fake news (fake news), and post-truth issues.
19–20 June 2018, Toledo, Spain, hosted the 30th International Seminar on Security and Defense. The forum, organized by the Association of European Journalists, traditionally took place in partnership ...
... Olga Alekseeva, RIAC Member and Editor-in-Chief of
gazeta.ru
online newspaper shares her thoughts on information wars and Telegram channels that have recently become very popular.
Pavel Koshkin:
Make Facts Great Again: Is it Possible to Withstand Fake News?
How dangerous is information war?
Unfortunately, information war is our today’s reality and a whole paradigm that is, regrettably, being built now in global politics. Of course, an information war might seem less terrible at first sight ...
Fake news creates a vicious circle of distrust challenging both Russia and the West
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is running the probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. domestic affairs, got the access to Russian-linked ads campaign ...
Comments on the article published by The Washington Post concerning contacts between a member of Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters and the RIAC
Today, The Washington Post published an
article
on contacts between a member of Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
While writing the article, The Washington Post journalist contacted RIAC program director Ivan Timofeev. The WP’s editorial board received a detailed commentary on the subject. Unfortunately...
