by Allison Elmer | May 17, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had formed a new board focused on combating disinformation. The board will be headed by Nina Jankowicz, a Wilson Center fellow with experience advising Ukraine on communication strategies and...
by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | May 9, 2022 | Brown University
At the end of last month the Biden administration unveiled a new “Disinformation Board” within the Department of Homeland Security, aimed at attacking online “disinformation” as a national security threat in and of itself. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has...
by Maximo Olavarria | Mar 23, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
With the Russian Invasion of Ukraine taking place this past week, Putin has triggered the greatest military crisis on the European continent since the Cold War. Over this time the global stage has changed drastically. The world has become increasingly globalized,...
by Tanner Hines | Mar 14, 2022 | University of Georgia
We’ve all seen it – fake social media accounts blasting blatant disinformation and propaganda. Your uncle Bill retweets them and your cousin Sally shares their links on Facebook, but they don’t know any better, right? Surely you, a savvy consumer of social media, can...
by Andy Legget | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
The January 6th insurrection may have failed to achieve its goals on the day its right-wing participants stormed the U.S. Capital, but the movement was alive well before the 6th, and it continues to live on to this day. The hard truth of the matter is: the belief that...
