Overview In a year featuring a presidential impeachment, Brexit, mass protests in Hong Kong, and widespread geopolitical turmoil, few topics dominated the Russian government-funded media landscape quite like the arrest and subsequent suicide of bil [...]
Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined David Rabin on WPFW - Pacifica to discuss how Russia has interfered in African American activist movements and how Russia will continue to try to increase polarization throughout the U.S. ahead of [...]
The Russian government uses information operations to try to control the narrative on many issues around the world. Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer says that overt information — news spread to the world from state-run outlets like Sputn [...]
Common transatlantic solutions can help counter disinformation campaigns in France and Germany’s changing media ecosystems, Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer and Research Assistant Etienne Soula argue in an article co-written with Institu [...]
Deputy Director David Salvo and Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer explain that foreign interference is a local issue, and local officials, community leaders, and citizens must come together to solve it. [...]
Overview On October 6, President Trump announced a U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria, leading to a week-long Turkish offensive against the Syrian Kurds. Since the announcement, Russian media and diplomats have doubled-down on their Syria coverage [...]
Bret Schafer talks online political disinformation on the Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver's 630 KHOW. [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer discusses online disinformation and the ongoing impeachment inquiry in the House on NPR's All Things Considered. [...]
Overview The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has engaged in a prolonged effort to create a version of Russian history free “from internal contradictions and ambiguities.” But attempts to airbrush Russian history have recently become a messa [...]
How to Interpret Hamilton 2.0 Version 2.0 of Hamilton 68 displays outputs from sources that we can directly attribute to the Russian government or its various news and information channels. These channels and accounts often engage with topics, has [...]