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How Azerbaijani media and politicians endorse Georgia’s shift away from the West

Cross-platform campaign sows anti-Europe division in Moldova

Japan’s technology paradox: the challenge of Chinese disinformation

An existential threat: Disinformation ‘single biggest risk’ to Canadian democracy

Connecting the other half of humanity is the deal of the century

Cross-platform multilingual campaign amplifies biolabs conspiracy targeting US and Armenia

Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X

Telegram network seeks to manipulate Moldova’s local political discourse

Cross-platform, multilingual Russian operations promote pro-Kremlin content
In-Depth Reports


Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Mapping the Global Spyware Market and its Threats to National Security and Human Rights

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them

User in the Middle: An Interoperability and Security Guide for Policymakers

“Reasonable” Cybersecurity in Forty-Seven Cases: The Federal Trade Commission’s Enforcement Actions Against Unfair and Deceptive Cyber Practices

Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Markets Matter: A Glance into the Spyware Industry

Hacking with AI

TikTok: Hate the Game, Not the Player

Design Questions in the Software Liability Debate
Projects

Russian War Report
As Russia’s aggression in Europe heats up, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Moscow’s movements across the military, cyber, and information domains.

Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker
The DFRLab’s Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker (FIAT) is an interactive, open-source database that captures allegations of foreign interference relevant to the 2024 election. This tool assesses the credibility, bias, evidence, transparency, and impact of each claim.

Election Official Handbook: Preparing for Election Day Misinformation
As part of the Election Integrity Partnership, the DFRLab has analyzed roughly four hundred cases of election-related dis- and misinformation on social media. This memo gathers the findings and issues recommendations for US election officials: they must prepare for viral falsehoods online that persist for weeks.

Dichotomies of Disinformation
Via the DFRLab’s Github: This project isolates “political disinformation campaigns.” Dichotomies of Disinformation proposes and tests a classification system built on 150 variable options. Our intent is to establish a replicable, extensible system by which widely disparate disinformation campaigns can be categorized and compared.
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