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Time for a skilled trades renaissance

The once-fringe bid for American reindustrialization now is a national consensus. Everyone from President Donad Trump to Gov. Josh Shapiro agrees the United States needs to get back into the business of...

Pro-Iran Hackers Outsmart Meta AI Chatbot, Access High-Profile Accounts

Hackers are coming after those friendly, cheerful chatbots used in customer support roles almost everywhere, and the first week of June told the tale. Attackers used a series of basic questions to exploit...

Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States

China Introduces New Outbound Investment Laws To Prevent U.S. Decoupling

After decades of courting foreign investment, Beijing is now working to stop the flow of funds going the other way.  On June 1, China’s State Council published new rules tightening...

Qatar Influence Operations: Unmasking a Suspected Network

What the Kremlin fears more than Ukrainian drones

Major banks across Russia on Friday reported major service breakdowns. Their apps crashed, ATMs stopped working, and other capabilities collapsed. The outages caused major complications in everyday...

Eyeing China’s Growth, NIST Launches New Standards Initiative for AI Agents

Washington is seeking to place artificial intelligence (AI) agents at the center of American technology dominance. On February 17, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the...

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

Russia Escalates Early Election Interference in Armenia as Yerevan Deepens Its Pivot Toward the West

Russia has launched an unusually early disinformation campaign targeting Armenia’s June 2026 parliamentary elections, according to a report published last week by the disinformation watchdog NewsGuard. Since April, Kremlin-linked networks have pushed false narratives across multiple platforms, aiming to erode trust in Armenia’s democratic institutions, discredit Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s pro-Western government, and create instability that could help pro-Russia actors regain influence. The campaign comes as Armenia has sought to distance itself from Russia while aligning more closely with Europe and the United States, diminishing Moscow’s influence in a region it has long dominated.

A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7

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Russia Criminalizes User Searches for ‘Extremist Materials,’ Expanding Digital Repression

In his first years in power, Putin took control of the major media. Since the full-scale invasion, he has set his sights on the internet. But the West can help to undermine his “thought police.”

FDD Uncovers Large Iranian Network Impersonating Israelis on Social Media

An Iranian social media operation is instructing its audience how to use AI and create fake accounts on X where they pose as Israelis and post demoralizing messages in Hebrew...

10 Things to Know About Tehran’s Propaganda Network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Israel struck the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on June 16, damaging a key regime media organ. IRIB is far from an independent news channel. Rather, it is a tool...

Russian Malign Influence Campaigns Expand Onto Bluesky

The Russian influence operation known as Doppelganger has expanded onto the social media platform Bluesky to spread anti-Ukraine and antisemitic messages, according to a report released by Alliance4Europe...

Meta Dismantles Iranian and Hezbollah Influence Operations Targeting Israel

Meta’s Threat Disruption Center two weeks ago exposed influence operations backed by Iran and Hezbollah that targeted Israel, taking down several accounts on the company’s Instagram and Facebook platforms....

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

Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction

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Nip the Bots in the Bud

Proactively Taking Down and Preventing the Creation of Inauthentic Social Media Entities

How U.S. Adversaries Undermine the Perception of Election Integrity

Meta Bans Russian State Media

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — banned several Russian state media outlets last week, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, as part of its ongoing efforts to...