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Russian War Report: Competing claims about the possible death of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander

Kink in the Chain: Eight Perspectives on Software Supply Chain Risk Management

Software Supply Chain Security: The Dataset

Russian War Report: Black Sea military operations approach NATO countries’ waters

Armenian and Azerbaijani Telegram channels incite violence against each other

Inauthentic Facebook network linked to Georgian government StratCom unit

Pro-Kremlin groups mobilize online supporters to attack Tbilisi Pride Festival

Panda exchange program targeted by misinformation, driving anti-US narratives in China

Russian media spread rumors accusing Baltic states of drone attack
In-Depth Reports


Protecting point-to-point messaging apps: Understanding Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp in the United States

Sudan’s precarious information environment and the fight for democracy

Chinese discourse power: Capabilities and impact

Critical Infrastructure and the Cloud: Policy for Emerging Risk

The disinformation landscape in West Africa and beyond

A Parallel Terrain: Public-Private Defense of the Ukrainian Information Environment

An introduction to the Freedom Online Coalition

Chinese discourse power: Ambitions and reality in the digital domain

China’s discourse power operations in the Global South
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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 2020 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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