• U.S. Warns Voters of Disinformation Deluge

    American voters are likely about to be swamped by a flood of misinformation and influence campaigns engineered by U.S. adversaries aiming, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials, to sway the results of the upcoming presidential election and cast doubt on the process itself.

  • How Foreign Operations Are Manipulating Social Media to Influence Your Views

    Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Influence campaigns aim to shift public opinion, push false narratives or change behaviors among a target population. Russia, China, Iran, Israel and other nations have run these campaigns by exploiting social bots, influencers, media companies and generative AI.

  • Intelligence Suggests Iran Sought to Ensnare Trump, Biden in Hack-and-Leak

    Iran’s efforts to upend U.S. politics ahead of November’s presidential election by targeting the campaign of former President Donald Trump went well beyond a standard hack-and-leak operation. According to U.S. intelligence officials, Tehran sought to ensnare the campaign of Trump’s then-opponent, incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden.

  • North Korea Explained: What Americans Need to Know

    The Korean Peninsula, with its intricate web of historical tensions, nuclear threats, and geopolitical dynamics, will demand a nuanced and strategic approach from the incoming administration.

  • Five Disinformation Tactics Russia Is Using to Try to Influence the U.S. Election

    The White House’s recent exposure of Russian attempts to influence this year’s U.S. presidential election will come as little surprise to anyone who followed disinformation tactics during the last U.S. election. The practices alleged by DOJ has become standard practice in Russian attempts to influence international audiences.

  • U.S. Adversaries Step Up Efforts to Influence Results of Next Election

    Russia, Iran and China are ramping up efforts to impact the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and down-ballot races, targeting American voters with an expanding array of sophisticated influence operations.

  • Social Media Manipulation in the Era of AI

    China is not the only U.S. adversary exploring the potential propaganda gold mine that AI has opened. But China provides a useful case study, in part because its disinformation efforts seem to be getting bolder.

  • US Seeks to Reassure Voters That Presidential Election Will Be Safe

    Top U.S. election security officials are asking American voters to tune out the noise and reject what they describe as unfounded claims that the coming presidential election will be rigged. The effort to reassure voters follows the U.S. intelligence community’s warning that U.S. adversaries, led by Russia, Iran and China, are seeking to meddle with the November election. These adversaries have been conducting influence operations or disinformation campaigns designed to sow doubt about the U.S. election process.

  • Aide to Cuomo, Hochul Was a Chinese Agent

    In a 65-page federal indictment unsealed last week, prosecutor described how Linda Sun, 40, of Manhasset, Long Island, who worked for the NY State government for 14 years, serving as an aide to New York’s former governor Andrew Cuomo and current governor Kathy Hochul, received money and other benefits in exchange for providing help to the Peoples’s Republic of China and its Communist Party.

  • Oversight Committee Presses Federal Agencies on Plan to Shrink China's Influence

    The Chinese government has carried out a broad effort to influence U.S. higher education through funding top universities and sponsoring Confucius Institutes at schools, though those have mostly been shut down over concerns about national security. The National Association of Scholars, though, says those institutions have been reopening with different branding.

  • How the U.S. Can Counter Disinformation from Russia and China

    Attempts by Russia, China, and other U.S. adversaries to spread dangerous false narratives need to be countered before they take root.

  • Foreign Actors Could Sow 'Chaos' in the 2024 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity Expert Says

    In a tightly contested election, a “hack and leak” campaigns can be hugely “consequential” at the margins, says an expert.

  • Why Indonesia Moved Its Capital to a Jungle Hundreds of Miles Away, and more

    ·  Why Indonesia Moved Its Capital to a Jungle Hundreds of Miles Away
    The new city, Nusantara, comes as Jakarta continues to sink at a record pace

    ·  America’s Failed Approach to Iran Can’t Really Be Called a Strategy
    For almost a decade, Washington has had an attitude toward Iran — unrelenting opposition and pressure — but not a strategy

    ·  NATO’s Weak Spot Against Russia Facing a Choice to Take Up Arms
    The undefended Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea have long been a gap in Europe’s shield. Remilitarization could turn them into one of the West’s key defenses

     

  • Federal Jury Convicts New York Resident of Acting as a Covert Chinese Agent

    Defendant Pretended to Be Opposed to the Chinese Government So He Could Get Close to Prominent Activists Seeking to Bring Democracy, Reform and Human Rights to China

  • Iranian Plot to Kill U.S. Officials, Politicians

    A Pakistani man with ties to Iran was charged with murder-for-hire plot as part of an alleged scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official on U.S. soil. Law enforcement foiled the charged plot before any attack could be carried out.