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O$$ Security: Does More Money for Open Source Software Mean Better Security? A Proof of Concept
Moldova in the digital crosshairs of anonymous, pro-Russian Telegram channels
The GDC zero draft: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Kremlin-linked Telegram channels seed anti-Ukraine and anti-West narratives in Bulgaria
Inauthentic campaign amplifying Islamophobic content targeting Canadians
Suspicious Facebook assets amplify pro-Kremlin Bulgarian ‘mushroom’ websites
Unpacking the Kremlin media blitz surrounding Gagauzia leader’s Russia visit
How to consume information in times of conflict
Stalin lionized on Georgian TikTok
In-Depth Reports
February 2024
Hacking with AI
February 2024
TikTok: Hate the Game, Not the Player
Hacking with AI
TikTok: Hate the Game, Not the Player
Design Questions in the Software Liability Debate
This Job Post Will Get You Kidnapped: A Deadly Cycle of Crime, Cyberscams, and Civil War in Myanmar
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
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 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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