First part of a series on Team Bellwether’s investigation of the link between disinformation and the U.S. presidential elections. This first article covers 2004-2012.

From April 10-12, 2023, The University of Texas at Austin will host the #Connexions Conference on global media in diplomacy and foreign policy. #Connexions will create an international space for discourse on modern media and technology in state affairs to help address the critical need for informed and expert leadership in the information sphere, promoting a safer and healthier digital environment that in turn shapes the direction of history. Of main focus will be the chaos of information itself and how it informs and impedes the creation, execution, and communication of policy and the effective conduct of diplomacy. Academics, policymakers, and media practitioners will convene to address the key issues of our ever-evolving media environment, including fake news, disinformation, social media, cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and the vulnerabilities of technologies that govern and drive global connectivity.

For more information, visit the conference website at https://www.slavx.org/connexions.

Using digital humanities methodology, Adam Hanzel and Dr. Kiril Avramov seek to analyze the “interplay between Patriarch Kirill’s ideology of ‘Holy Tradition’ and the movement Sorok Sorokov,” specifically in “the digital space.” Read the full article at the link below.

Team Pravda recently published “Putin the historian: Russian disinformation narratives around Ukraine” in the “Forum for Ukrainian Studies”. Led by Dr. Tatiana Klynina and featuring student researchers David Castillo, Nicholas Pierce, and TTL Mykhaylo Simanovskyy, the publication discusses Russia’s disinformation practices through the use of historical narrative. Read the full article at the link below.

The Daily Texan, the official newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, featured an article on February 22nd about the students in Ryan Williams’ Team Evergreen. The team, partnering with the Policy Research Project that Williams leads at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, is “collaborating to create a database of global laws related to disinformation and misinformation.” Read the entire article to learn more about the database at the link below.

A discussion from GDIL’s Cyber Pacific Team on Japan’s cyber defense efforts with a focus on the concepts of domainification and integration.

In October 2022, Dr. Kiril Avramov (Research Director, GDIL) interviewed Mark Pomar, Clement Center Senior National Security Fellow, on his new book Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Listen to the interview and his insights on both how the Russian language broadcasts helped to advance American interests, and how information figures in contemporary conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

International news outlet France 24 featured quotes recently given by GDIL Executive Director Michael Mosser in its coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Global Disinformation Policy Database Team, represented in GDIL by Project Evergreen, released a new report exploring 5 fundamental challenges to developing effective and equitable laws and policies that address disinformation and misinformation. The GDPD is being...

Taylor Ham (GDIL TTL) has been published in the December 2022 volume of the Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies. Read “Such a Way with Words: Narrative Construction in Russia’s Domestic News Coverage of Military Companies in Central African Republic” here.