The verdict: Back to you, Facebook. The company’s Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that former US President Donald Trump will remain banned from the platform for encouraging the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Disinformation operations in Africa are hidden in discretely coordinated social media campaigns. Rose Jackson joins CSIS’s podcast: Into Africa to discuss he importance of people-to-people engagement in responding to disinformation.

COVID-19 has the potential to be malware for democracy. Becoming aware of those realities will help us better protect the system.

New rules for online intermediaries, social media companies, and media sites present a serious challenge to India’s democracy

It’s become so regular an occurrence these days that you’d be forgiven if you missed it entirely: On Thursday, the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google headed to the US Congress (virtually, of course) to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

How the country’s most precious commodity, internet and social media access, is being co-opted by the military.

The riot at the Capitol was conceived in plain sight, as we reported last week. For weeks on far-right networks across the web, extremists discussed their plans for violence. Is it happening again? Experts at our Digital Forensic Research Lab have been monitoring the chatter.

The mob that broke into the US Capitol yesterday was aided significantly by online coordination and planning. The team at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab has conducted exhaustive research into how that happened, combing through social media and other networks frequented by the far right. Let’s break down what they found.

By using fictitious front groups to impede attribution, the attackers turned one of the Iranian regime’s own disinformation tactics against it.