All posts tagged "hostile states"

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  Defeating disinformation: how to create a healthier national conversation

  Bad actors are poisoning the information well from which populations drink in the democratic world. In the final part of our investigation into overseas interference in elections, Matt Ross asks

  • Posted February 11, 2024
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  Knowing and showing: how intelligence and transparency can combat electoral interference

  For a decade, hostile powers overseas have been interfering in elections and stoking public anger in Europe and North America – and the domestic beneficiaries of these operations often stymie

  • Posted February 4, 2024
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  A subtle opponent: China’s influence operations

  China’s attempts to influence electorates in the democratic world are far more targeted and less destructive than the tactics deployed by Russia – but that doesn’t make them any less

  • Posted January 28, 2024
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  Russia’s elections toolkit: dollars, disruption and disinformation

  Hack and leak, astroturfing, perception hacking, reputation laundering: Russia has devised an armoury of new techniques to weaken and distract its opponents. In this second part of our investigation into

  • Posted January 21, 2024
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  Organised chaos: how Russia weaponised the culture wars

  Social divisions, conspiracy theories and populist politics are rife in the democratic world. And these are not just home-grown problems: Russia and other hostile states have deliberately stoked internal dissent,

  • Posted January 14, 2024
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  Responding to rising threats: heading off cyberattacks in the era of the perma-crisis

  At a Global Government Forum webinar, Mia Hunt heard public sector experts explore the trend for more frequent and serious cyberattacks – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the invasion

  • Posted April 27, 2022
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