Introduction Latvia’s non-resident banking sector, which caters to clients from Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has finally become politically untenable. After years of scandals and massive illicit flows [...]
Russia’s latest iteration of the Soviet-era tactic of “active measures” has mesmerized Western audiences and become the topic de jour for national security analysts. In my last post, I focused on the Kremlin’s campaign to influence the U.S. election [...]
ASD’s co-director Laura Rosenberger joined GLOBSEC 2018’s panel “Age of Bots and Robotisation of Truth,” where she explained that “when we’re talking about the role of information on the internet and on social media, there’s a lot of focus on bots i [...]
Jamie Fly moderated a GLOBSEC panel “Populism: Is the Tide Over Yet?”: “The impact is not just on our own democratic politics and a question about whether we’re providing solutions to the voters and responding to their demands, it’s also impacting o [...]
David Salvo discusses Russian disinformation campaigns in the United States as a tool to amplify existing divisions within society and potentially interfere in an election campaign. The Public Policy Forum and University of British Columbia hosted t [...]
ASD’s co-director Jamie Fly joined a panel at CSIS, “What Works: Countering Gray Zone Tactics,” where he discussed unconventional tools used by state and non-state adversaries to influence and coerce Western democracies: “It’s important to recognize [...]
Last week, the Democrats of the House Intelligence Committee released the trove of over 3,500 Facebook ads purchased by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) from 2015 to 2017. For the most part, the release confirms what we alread [...]
On May 3, the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, announced that the U.S. State Department had suspended funding for the group, stating that the support is “under active review.” The White Helmets are Syrian volunteer rescue workers th [...]
ASD Director Laura Rosenberger and JG Global Founder John Garnaut published an article in the Asan Forum discussing interference operations from Russia and China. Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin are sy [...]
As the United States, Britain, and France launched targeted airstrikes against suspected chemical weapons sites in Syria on April 13, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis predicted that there would be “a significant disinformation campaign over th [...]