News Analysis Clusters of new social media profiles emerge and interact with long-dormant accounts, seemingly exchanging viewpoints from across the American political spectrum. Some sport American flags for profile pictures; others have images of beautiful women. Almost all are anonymous, though some impersonate real people. In tweets and posts and messages they spread their views. […]
In a report dated Oct. 26, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant identified new narratives pushed by Dragonbridge, an online disinformation campaign. The report says that Dragonbridge—in an effort to influence the U.S. midterm elections—has been aggressively seeking to create conflicts between the United States and its allies and within the U.S. political system. In an earlier report, […]
Turkish lawmakers have voted to adopt a law that aimed at preventing “disinformation” in the media and online, despite widespread concerns about the measure’s potential to quash free speech. Lawmakers from President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which together have a majority, voted in parliament on Thursday […]
Watch what you say—U.S. spy services are listening and will strip you of your right to say it. A private-public consortium between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley is targeting alternative media and dissident voices to silence critics and turn America into a one-party state where opposition is outlawed and the truth is “disinformation.” In this […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed on July 25 that “highly credible whistleblowers” informed his office that officials from the FBI falsely labeled evidence against Hunter Biden as “disinformation.” Grassley wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, saying, “If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are—and have been—institutionally corrupted to their […]
A U.S. advisory panel on July 18 said it is recommending that the government’s disinformation board is not necessary. “At this point, we have concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board,” the panel said in a statement. No further details were given. Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security during the George […]
Now Beijing is spreading disinformation about the upcoming NATO summit. Here’s what happened. An internet user posted on Twitter about a massive protest in Belgium. The tweet says 70,000 workers marched through Brussels to protest rising costs. The tweet went viral, racking up over 1 million views. And it caught the attention of Beijing’s media […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s move to create a so-called Disinformation Governance Board after it faced widespread criticism that it was tantamount to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.” In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Mayorkas said the new DHS panel would not be used to monitor American citizens and praised […]
