Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship

Be Lee Fang, RealClearInvestigations & LeeFang.comJanuary 25, 2024 Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security, reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governance Board – the panel formed to actively police misinformation. The board, which was proposed in April 2022 after he… Continue reading Logically.AI of Britain and the Expanding Global Reach of Censorship

NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool.  A self-described “vaccine against misinformation.” NewsGuard Technologies In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship, Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, touted his product, NewsGuard, as… Continue reading NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media

Above left, from the cover of the Election Integrity Partnership’s 2020 election report. It’s not the full story: Previously undisclosed Stanford documents now show in detail how the federal-private alliance flagged social media posts for censorship.  By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 6, 2023 In the runup to the 2020 election, cybersecurity experts at the Department of… Continue reading Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media

Embracing the Messiness of Public-Private Collaboration in the Fight Against Botnets

Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, Russia has sponsored several Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Ukrainian targets, including various attacks against government and financial entities. Botnets, which are networks of computers infected with malware that an attacker controls and uses to fulfill malicious cyber activities, can be used to launch these DDoS… Continue reading Embracing the Messiness of Public-Private Collaboration in the Fight Against Botnets

A Trilateral Summit to Deal with Trilateral Threats

U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in August held a trailblazing trilateral summit. The summit’s particular focus was on countering military threats in East Asia, and it hailed “a new era of trilateral partnership” in which the three countries “are determined to align our collective efforts… Continue reading A Trilateral Summit to Deal with Trilateral Threats

For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story

“The Washington Post and other media have tried to squelch the scandal of Joe Biden potentially using his high office to enrich himself and his family,” said a congressional investigator for a GOP-led committee. “Almost nobody is fact-checking these biased fact checkers, and they carry a lot of weight and authority.”  Original article: “Officials who worked for… Continue reading For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story

What’s Good for the Goose Isn’t Necessarily Good For the Gander

  My good friends at Merriam Webster define this expression “to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated” (see: https://bit.ly/3qPXRKh) Should the U.S. concede the information advantage to our enemies and adversaries?   The Washington Post posted “Pentagon orders review of psyops after… Continue reading What’s Good for the Goose Isn’t Necessarily Good For the Gander

FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsAugust 18, 2022 The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump. Brian Auten: Discredited over… Continue reading FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

Combating Disinformation by Bolstering Truth and Trust

For Jessica Cecil, today feels a bit like the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, in which agreed-upon facts endure in only a few isolated places of elite discussion and there is no common language of politics. Cecil, founder and former head of the Trusted News Initiative, a global alliance of major… Continue reading Combating Disinformation by Bolstering Truth and Trust

Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe

As former head of the New York Times and the BBC, Mark Thompson has tackled disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his big takeaways: It’s not as easy as you might think to sustain a successful disinformation campaign. “The Russian disinformation machine has taken some good kicks because of facts on the… Continue reading Russia Will Struggle to Sustain Its Disinformation Machine, Former New York Times/BBC Chief Tells RAND Europe