How to defend against Russia’s disinformation war
Facebook has been told to hand over evidence of Russian meddling in British politics to MPs, The Daily Telegraph reports: The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee has demanded… Read more »
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As APEC Summit looms, Vietnam escalates crackdown on rights campaigners
Vietnam should drop all charges and immediately release student blogger Phan Kim Khanh, Human Rights Watch said today. Vietnam’s donors and regional leaders should make it clear that they will… Read more »
Call to reconvene Paris Conference as Cambodian PM says opposition will be dissolved
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) said on Monday it was “a fact” that the main opposition party would be dissolved as he spoke on the anniversary of the peace… Read more »
Soleimani ‘gets his way again’ as Iran fills strategic vacuum
Najmaldin Karim, the Kurdish governor of Kirkuk Province, will not be returning to the city that elected him in 2011 and 2014. It’s too dangerous, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake reports: In… Read more »
Russian trolls paid activists to sow discord: how to reduce vulnerability
A Russian “troll factory” paid tens of thousands of dollars to unwitting American activists to sow discord in the US, The Times reports: This is the first suggestion of direct… Read more »
Canada passes ‘Global Magnitsky’, Russia threatens retaliation
A bill targeting foreign nationals who have committed human rights violations has passed final reading in Canada’s Senate, writes Leslie Young of Investigative Global News: Bill S-226, which has now… Read more »
$18bn boost for Open Society – but CEU held in ‘legal limbo’
George Soros, who built one of the world’s largest fortunes through a famous series of trades, has turned over nearly $18 billion to Open Society Foundations, according to foundation officials,… Read more »
Wikileaks a ‘fully owned subsidiary’ of Russia’s ‘social media blitzkrieg’
Wikileaks is an arm of Russian intelligence and a new Cold War is descending on Europe through the weaponizing of information, Hillary Clinton claimed yesterday, The Times (London) reports: The… Read more »
Syrian civil society a strategic partner in countering terrorism & radicalism
It is a misconception to suggest that a military campaign is enough to defeat the Islamic State, argues Ibrahim al-Assil, a fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington and a founding… Read more »
‘From Russia With Poison’ – the making of a disinformation campaign
Nearly a year after Election Day, Facebook’s role in our modern political infrastructure is finally coming into focus. But there is much more to know, The New York Times reports:… Read more »