Andrew Weisburd

About Andrew Weisburd

Andrew Weisburd is a non-resident fellow for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF. For the last 15 years, he has provided training and expert services to elements of the U.S. intelligence community and select non-governmental organizations. His areas of expertise include leveraging open sources of intelligence, and the use of the public internet by a broad range of threat actors, to further counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal investigations. Weisburd has a BS degree in Information systems management from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a masters in criminology from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Insinuation and Influence: How the Kremlin Targets Americans Online

The objective of Kremlin influence operations, part of a larger set of tactics and strategies known as active measures, is to make the target population more amenable to Kremlin wants and desires. They achieve this either by gaining a sympathetic he [...]

2021-09-07T14:22:41-04:00October 16, 2017|By Andrew Weisburd and Bret Schafer|