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Beijing Is Getting Better at Disinformation on Global Social Media | The Diplomat
by Sarah Cook
March 30, 2021
When China-linked networks of social media bots and trolls appeared on the global disinformation scene in 2019, most analysts concluded…
Edgelands Institute Launch Event | Berkman Klein Center
March 29, 2021
The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization, surveillance, pandemics,…
The Real Target of Authoritarian Disinformation | Foreign Affairs
by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren
March 25, 2021
On October 7 of last year, the Twitter account @hakkidin tweeted what appeared to be a heartfelt message of congratulations:…
Myanmar’s Military Deploys Digital Arsenal of Repression in Crackdown | The New York Times
by Hannah Beech
March 2, 2021
During a half century of military rule, Myanmar’s totalitarian tools were crude but effective. Men in sarongs shadowed democracy activists,…
McDonald’s Secretive Intel Team Spies on ‘Fight for $15’ Workers, Internal Documents Show | VICE
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Lauren Kaori Gurley
February 24, 2021
For years, McDonald's has internally labeled activists and employees working with the Fight for $15 campaign a security threat and…
How India’s Government is Weaponizing Twitter | Columbia Journalism Review
by Maddy Crowell
February 17, 2021
On January 26, Navreet Singh, a twenty-five-year-old farmer from Uttar Pradesh, in the north of India, hopped on a blue…
White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics | Berkman Klein Center
February 4, 2021
Dr. Apryl A. Williams and Dr. Allissa V. Richardson address the long-standing history of White vigilante-style surveillance of Black people in public…
Which Side of History?: How Technology is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
January 8, 2021
Society has been transformed by a technology revolution and its 24/7 influence on so many aspects of our reality. The…
DARPA Releases BAA for Disinformation Campaign Prevention Effort | Executive Gov
by Brenda Marie Rivers
November 5, 2020
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a broad agency announcement to identify potential sources of technologies and…