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Election Interference

An Insider’s Look at Georgia - ‘Battleground Between Russia and the West’

OPINION — As the crisis and political showdown in Georgia enters its third week, both sides appear to be digging in. Despite cold weather and a [...] More

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How Moscow May Have Influenced Our Elections – And Is Poised to Do It Again

During the leadup to the 2016 presidential elections, Russia bots, trolls and media outlets such as RT and Sputnik were actively messaging about the [...] More

Trump’s Silence on Russia Means His Chiefs Have to Say Too Much

President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to publicly make plain that Russia is undertaking a large-scale active measures campaign against our democracy [...] More

Russian Active Measures and the 2016 Election Hack

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Funny, that. The Soviet and Russian [...] More

From Watergate to Iran-Contra to Flynn, the Cover-Up Reveals the Crime

It’s always the cover-up.That was the starting point for unraveling Nixon’s Watergate and Reagan’s Iran-contra affair.I covered both scandals and [...] More
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Congress Grills Tech Firms Over Russia’s 2016 Reach

Top social media companies revealed more details about how Russian operatives made extensive use of their platforms to wage a disinformation and [...] More

Target America: Dissecting Moscow’s Social Media Campaign

In recent years, Russia has waged a new cold war on the United States through its actions, though we have only recently come to grips with this [...] More
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Social Media: The Fifth Column in the Fifth Domain

The key question as representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google testify Tuesday and Wednesday before Congress is not how Russia used social [...] More
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Kremlin Surely Gleeful Over Indictments, Former Spies Say

The Kremlin is likely celebrating the indictment of President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and the guilty plea by another campaign adviser, [...] More
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New Bill Aims to Stem Foreign Meddling in Social Media

A bipartisan group of influential lawmakers is expected to introduce the Honest Ads Act this week, legislation that would seek to increase [...] More
Russia’s 2016 Meddling on Facebook Just “the Tip of the Iceberg”

Russia’s 2016 Meddling on Facebook Just “the Tip of the Iceberg”

Two top congressional Democrats said Facebook’s announcement it had discovered a Russian-funded campaign promoting divisive social and political [...] More

The United States of Cyber Debility

Americans are suffering from an undiagnosed condition. Overwhelmed and outmatched by the allure, complexity, and insecurity of networked [...] More