... 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 ...
... Can the human mind — incessantly subjected to politicized fairy tales and violent belief systems — be capable of continual innovation? It is of course easier to blame an external bogeyman for a purely internal malaise. Herein lies the utility of fake news; one that will be filtered by a digital nanny and policed by thousands of ideologically-biased fact-checkers. Funded, of course, by the US deep state!
Leonid Kovachich:
China Missed the Industrial Revolution, But It Won’t Miss the Digital One
Somehow no known form of intelligence — artificial or otherwise — ...
... 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 and media overtly ridiculing the American narrative about Moscow’s role in the U.S. elections. Usually, the arguments of the Russian side boil down to three bullet points: first, America is facing the national identity ...
... U.S. Strategy Toward Russia
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russian Election Interference: Europe’s Counter to Fake News and Cyber Attacks
The Return of Global Russia
Project
Heritage Foundation
U.S. Comprehensive Strategy Toward Russia
... ... similar projects on information influence makes it possible to detect a Russian trace virtually everywhere, and to level accusations at Russia irrespective of whether or not the country is actually involved.
At the official level, Russia (just like the ...
... were linked to fake accounts, created reportedly by a pro-Kremlin troll factory.
Lawrence McDonnell:
Lies, Spies and Big Data: How Fake News Is Rewriting Political Landscapes
According to the U.S., Russia was rigorously spreading its narrative and “fake news” during the presidential race and contributed to the victory of American billionaire Donald Trump, nominated by the Republican Party. These accusations highlighted the scale of the fake-news problem in the post-truth world. But to understand this phenomenon, it is necessary to determine what the term “fake news” really means. Fake news is a purposeful dissemination of false information to ...
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...
On July 18, 2017, RIAC held a debate titled “Fake News and World Politics”. The lecturers were Lawrence McDonnell, former BBC corresponded in Moscow, and Pavel Koshkin, Deputy Editor of RBC’s international department and former Editor-in-Chief of the analytical resource Russia Direct in English ...
... based on the U.S. electoral college structure. However, months after Donald Trump was declared President of the United States, questions remain about the legitimacy of the U.S. elections. The central issues are the emergence and use of so-called ‘Fake News’ and the accusation that Russia, through espionage and online hacking operations, sought to influence the presidential elections to promote Donald Trump and denigrate the reputation of Hillary Clinton.
The issues thrown up in the wake of the U.S. presidential election ...
