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disinformation
Event
June 3, 2025 10:30 am
Securing Our Autonomy: How AI Fuels Cognitive Warfare – and How We Can Fight Back
In a side event at the SCSP AI Expo, experts on the front lines of policy, industry, and neuroscience unpacked how AI is being weaponized for psychological and influence operations — and how we can build resilience across society.
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cognitive warfare
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information operations
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misinformation
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neuroscience
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psychological warfare
June 3, 2025
Blog
2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man
On July 24, 2024 at TrustCon, IST SVP Eric Davis will moderate a panel with Diane Chang, Alexis Crews, and Swapneel Mehta that tackles the pressing topic of AI’s impact on the 2024 elections thus far. In the IST blog, they offer a preview of the discussion.
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election interference
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TrustCon
July 18, 2024
Blog
Q&A: Hannah Ajakaiye on manipulated media in the 2023 Nigerian presidential elections, generative AI, and possible interventions
In early 2023, voters in Nigeria’s presidential election were inundated with election disinformation. AI-generated deep fakes, as well as paid posts falsely linking candidates to militant or separatist groups, filled social media platforms. In the months leading up to the election, journalist Hannah Ajakaiye spearheaded local efforts to fight the proliferation of misinformation with FactsMatterNG, a fact-checking initiative she founded to restore information integrity on digital platforms.
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Nigeria
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Trust and Safety
March 18, 2024
Blog
Addressing the Human Element of Technological Change
IST this year launched its Applied Trust & Safety Initiative, a long-term effort to ensure technology products and services are safe to use and technology solutions such as AI are fully leveraged to address these challenges at scale. Our efforts will primarily serve the T&S practitioner community in carrying out their challenging roles, but will also provide resources to innovators, guidance to users, and recommendations to policymakers.
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Cloud Services
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disinformation
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Trust and Safety
December 21, 2023
Blog
Technology, Warfare, and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: IST’s Anniversary Assessment
Prompted by the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the IST team took stock of the major tech trends the war in Ukraine has revealed, accelerated, and even redirected.
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disinformation
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Russia
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Russo-Ukraine War
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Ukraine
February 24, 2023
Report
Towards a Stronger Ukrainian Media Ecosystem
As Russian troops and military equipment surged on the border with Ukraine in 2021, IST used data gathered by VAST-OSINT Technologies to identify emerging narratives in Russian and Ukrainian across Ukraine’s media ecosystem. IST was able to pinpoint the origins of Russian disinformation narratives before they became mainstream and to provide timely insights to counter those narratives.
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media ecosystem
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Russia
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Ukraine
December 14, 2022
Report
Towards a Safer Ukrainian Media Ecosystem and Civil Society: How OSINT Can Help
In partnership with the Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab, IST presents tools and safeguards for use in debunking propaganda and verifying information online during the ongoing conflict with Russia.
cyber hygiene
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digital safety
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disinformation
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Geopolitics of Technology
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journalists
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OSINT
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propaganda
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Ukraine
August 25, 2022
Report
Digital Safety Training for Ukrainian Journalists and Civil Society
Natalia Antonova presents a guide for Ukrainian journalists and civil society with practical tips to safeguard their digital activities and improve their digital hygiene.
civil society
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cyber hygiene
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digital safety
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disinformation
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Geopolitics of Technology
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journalists
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Russia
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Ukraine
April 6, 2022
Event
February 10, 2021 1:00 pm
Building Citizen Resilience To Combat Disinformation
A key element to addressing challenges posed by disinformation is building resilient democratic societies through essential components including digital literacy and cyber education. On February 10, 2021, IST hosted a panel discussion on the need for cyber citizenship initiatives as measures to counter disinformation.
cyber citizenship
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democracy
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disinformation
February 10, 2021
Blog
Security for Self and Society: Insights from Lauren Buitta
We sat down with Lauren Buitta, Founder and CEO of Girl Security, to learn about her mentorship network for adolescent girls and the organization’s resources on careers in cybersecurity.
cybersecurity
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disinformation
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Future of Digital Security
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Girl Security
October 27, 2020
Event
October 8, 2020 1:00 pm
Active Measures, Disinformation Campaigns, and Election Security with Nellwyn Thomas and Thomas Rid
To understand the historical and current challenges of political warfare and disinformation and what is being done to address these threats, IST hosted a high-level panel discussion with experts on active measures, the history of information operations, the evolution of modern disinformation campaigns, and their implications for today’s election security.
disinformation
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election security
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information operations
October 8, 2020
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Report
Roundtable Discussion: AI and Human Decision Making
On June 29, 2018, Technology for Global Security and the Center for Global Security Research hosted a roundtable discussion. The discussion specifically investigated the potential security implications of these technologies as they are considered for use in military capacities. The discussion was attended by a mix of academics, research scientists, venture capitalists, civil society, and industry.
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autonomous weapons
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black box
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cyber attacks
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decision-making
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deterrence
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disinformation
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ethics
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military
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stability
November 28, 2018
Report
A Double-Edged Sentence
Digital communication speeds the spread of all information, true or otherwise. Increasingly, digital campaigns can have physical impacts by manipulating public opinion, eroding the distinction between truth and lie, and poisoning the forums for debating important ideas. Actors ranging from powerful countries to “lone wolves” can weaponize digital communications with novel technologies to change the course of an election or radicalize individuals to their cause.
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bots
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censorship
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deepfakes
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disinformation
May 20, 2020
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