Disinformation

Foreign Funding and Influence in America’s K-12 Education System

Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook

Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The United States is on track to be the next target this November. A troveof...

Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook

Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The U.S. is on track to be the next target this November. A trove of Russian documents leaked in...

Moscow Targets U.S.-Backed Projects as Armenia Moves West

Although Moscow failed to swing Armenia’s June elections in its favor, it continues to stir the pot in Yerevan, aiming to thwart Armenia’s turn toward the West. A new report from cybersecurity company...

China-Linked Social Media Network Seeks To Shift COVID Responsibility From China to U.S.

Long after COVID-19 ended, China is still trying to shape the world’s perception of the pandemic. On August 6, FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) identified at least 50 coordinated...

AI Is Outpacing NATO’s Hybrid Defense Playbook

NATO just received a glimpse of how a blackout can quickly become a crisis. At a three-day exercise in Bydgoszcz, Poland, NATO tested its ability to respond to a multi-domain crisis that combined cyberattacks...

TikTok warped Americans’ view of the Iran war — one post at a time

American military forces deployed an impressive range of weaponry against the Iranian regime during Operation Epic Fury — but Tehran’s allies may have been striking back on an entirely different...

A Problem at the Source

The newspaper continues to discredit itself by publishing deeply slanted reporting, much of it drawn from an organization whose founder openly supports Hamas.

Qatar Influence Operations: Unmasking a Suspected Network

Orban’s ouster was a win. But don’t let Hungary distract from Russia’s next target

Post-election celebrations erupted in the streets of Budapest over the weekend after Hungarian voters ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban after 16 years, handing pro-EU opposition leader Peter...

Deepfakes on the Front Lines: Iran’s AI Disinformation Campaign

The war with Iran has triggered a torrent of disturbing AI-generated imagery, videos, and narratives circulating widely on social media — such as smoke billowing from a Bahraini high-rise or rockets...

Pro-Iranian X Accounts Posing as Chinese, Russian, and North Korean

Iran has some imaginary friends. The United States and Israel are grinding down Iran’s war machine while Tehran’s fellow travelers, China, Russia, and North Korea, have largely limited their support...

Wikipedia Wars

America Resilient in the Face of Aggressive Foreign Malign Influence Targeting the 2024 U.S. Elections

The Covert War for American Minds

How Russia, China, and Iran Seek to Spread Disinformation and Chaos in the United States

Cognitive Combat

China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans

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Democracy’s high stakes in Taiwan’s vote  

Taiwan’s upcoming election stands as a litmus test of the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare strategy, specifically whether disinformation and military drills alone can bend Taipei’s...

Russia Escalates Disinformation Campaign in Western Balkans

Russia is entering a new phase in its disinformation campaign in the Western Balkans, escalating disinformation and propaganda, and aggressively pushing messages of inevitable war with the Europe...