The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has recently released Radicalization in the Ranks: An Assessment of the Scope and Nature of Criminal Extremism in the United States Military, a report examining criminal extremism amongst active and retired U.S....
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released Positive Peace Report 2022: Analysing the Factors that Build, Predict and Sustain Peace, a report that uses a “Positive Peace Index (PPI)” to evaluate and compare societal peace efforts in 163 countries. Utilizing this index, IEP found that over the past...
The U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission has released Countering Disinformation in the United States, a report detailing the current information ecosystem in the United States. This report addressed two main concerns, foreign influences and public awareness. Foreign influencers, like Russia, China, and Iran, “conduct operations to spread both disinformation and misinformation...
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab has recently released After the Insurrection: How Domestic Extremists Adapted and Evolved After the January 6 US Capitol Attack, a report detailing the state of radicalization and domestic extremism in the U.S. leading up to and developing after the January 6, 2021 riot at...
In a recently released report, Bad Actors in News Reporting: Tracking News Manipulation by State Actors, RAND Corporation details national government’s efforts to manipulate COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic information to further their own global agendas. The report found that all nations analyzed, which included China, the U.S., the U.K.,...
The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has released Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election, a report outlining tactics utilized by President Trump to influence the Department of Justice to overturn the election of President Biden. It was reported that...
The National Science and Technology Council has released National Strategic Computing Reserve: A Blueprint, a report which details the need and possible approaches for implementing a computing reserve for emergency use. The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic highlighted the need for such a reserve when research and development teams relied...
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has released Hate Crime Statistics, 2020 as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The hate crimes included in the dataset are defined as “a committed criminal offense which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias(es) against a race, religion, disability,...
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released an Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Origins. Details in the summary indicate that the most plausible origins of COVID-19 involve exposure to SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) via an infected animal or a...
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has released Disinformation Overdose: A Study of the Crisis of Trust Among Vaccine Sceptics and Anti-Vaxxers, a report detailing the spread of disinformation as it pertains to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) and vaccination in Germany. While anti-vaxxers account for a very small portion of the...
