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 first amendment of the United States Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for...
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...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published their most recent National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin. This updated bulletin builds on a previous bulletin released in January 2021 and summarizes the types of current terrorist threats that are being monitored and for which our nation is most at risk. Some...
RAND has released Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information on COVID-19: Russian and Chinese Efforts Targeting the United States. This report describes COVID-19 information manipulation by Russia and China targeting U.S. audiences for the first half of 2020. Although the two countries differ in their principal goals; Russia aiming to...
