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Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
Advances in technology are deployed in war, changing the ways that wars are both fought and communicated.
Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
More than 5,000 documents were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower.
As elections approach – and even after they’re done – there’s a lot of confusing, and deliberately misleading, information out there. Learn how to protect yourself.
Russian government media are frequently criticized as being blatant propaganda. How do US government media measure up?
The reasons for the prominence of the Ukraine war in the West are many – and include the Ukrainian government’s strategic efforts to tailor presentations of the conflict for Western sensibilities.
Both nations have understood the need to take to social media — but have done so in markedly different ways.
Cyberattacks can be devastating, just not on the battlefield, according to researchers who looked at 10 years of armed conflicts around the world.
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the app has been a key point-of-contact for communication with his own people and the rest of the world.
From jamming satellite signals to spreading disinformation, Russia’s military has sophisticated technologies it’s bringing to the battlefield in Ukraine.
The internet has created new threats to national security and population welfare. The Canadian government needs an oversight department to address cybersecurity and educate their citizens.
Though many people are just paying attention to these problems now, they are not new – and they even date back to ancient Rome.
A social psychologist explains how to avoid being misled, and how to prevent yourself – and others – from spreading inaccurate information.
As Election Day approaches, Americans would do well to remember they are targets of disinformation campaigns. Here’s what they could look like, and what’s being done about them.
Small groups of fringe activists pushing online disinformation are a growing threat to Australian democracy.
Russian-affiliated Twitter accounts changed what they posted about, and used both text and images in ways that shed light on how these information warriors work.
Legislation expected to be put to Parliament later this year may very well fall short due to COVID-19’s budget impacts. But until we strengthen our cyber defences, we’re all at risk.
Here’s what to watch out for, so you can protect yourself – and your social circles – from lies, half-truths and misleading spins on current events.
Top contributors
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Visiting Fellow in Political Science, Northeastern University
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Adjunct professor, Carleton University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Clark University
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Charles Darwin University
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Executive Director, Arizona State University