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...
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 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.
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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.”
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...
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...
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’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....
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Proactively Taking Down and Preventing the Creation of Inauthentic Social Media Entities
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...
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, reported on August 23 that it blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts used by Iranian cyber-attackers to target officials...
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim strongly criticized Meta Platforms — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook — after his Facebook post mourning the assassination...
China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns
Meta announced on February 8 that it removed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts...
Right now, the eyes of the world are focused on Russian aggression in Ukraine and escalating threats from Vladimir Putin. But Russia’s playbook goes well beyond Ukraine, including retaliation against...