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June 2023
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web launches final report Scaling Trust on the Web
Press Release: Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web launches final report Scaling Trust on the Web
February 2022
DFRLab releases Financing & genocide: Development finance and the crisis in the Uyghur Region
The DFRLab releases a joint investigation revealing how the World Bank’s private lending arm has several investments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
December 2021
Democracy + Tech Initiative Director Rose Jackson Testifies to Senate
Rose Jackson, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)’s Democracy & Tech Initiative testified to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband’s Thursday hearing on Disrupting Dangerous Algorithms: Addressing the Harms of Persuasive Technology.
August 2020
Armed militias mobilize on social media hours before deadly Kenosha shooting
Users on Facebook and reddit encouraged
June 2021
Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab Launches Democracy + Tech Initiative
Initiative to advance digital agenda focused on human rights and democratic values; programing kicks off with high-profile event featuring Katherine Maher on June 22.
November 2020
DFRLab working with partners to combat election disinformation in real-time
The Atlantic Council’s DFRLab is deeply committed to doing our part to protect the integrity of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
July 2020
DFRLab Joins U.S. Election Integrity Partnership
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is proud to join other industry leading organizations in the Election Integrity Partnership.
October 2020
Atlantic Council’s DFRLab releases first in a series of reports looking at China’s activity in the information space
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is proud to announce the release of Chinese Discourse Power: China’s Use of Information Manipulation in Regional and Global Competition, the first of four reports to look at the country’s strategy in the information space.
June 2020
DFRLab statement on Maria Ressa
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab stands with Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr.
March 2019
Don’t Watch the New Zealand Mosque Attack Video. Just Don’t.
@DFRLab’s Andy Carvin on the real-world consequences of viewing graphic imagery
May 2018
Why We’re Partnering With Facebook on Election Integrity
Working together to ensure tools designed to bring us closer together, don’t drive us further apart
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