New Reports on Chinese Disinformation and Influence Operations coming on Substack

Institute for the Future’s Digital Intelligence Lab, Graphika, and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are releasing a joint report on disinformation in Taiwan today. This report explores Taiwan’s January 2020 presidential election, Chinese covid-19 disinfo targeting Taiwan, Malaysian content farms, and much more. We’re extremely proud of this work, which is one of the most comprehensive and rigorous explorations of Chinese disinformation to date.

After news broke in January about a new strain of coronavirus that was spreading throughout the world, it wasn’t long before rumors and disinformation about the virus began to spread. As many observers have noted, the uncertainty surrounding the crisis has led to several cases of false information spreading, both…

By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future and Nick Monaco, Director, Institute for the Future, Digital Intelligence Lab. We are living in an unprecedented information environment. Our attention is monopolized and fractured by a multitude of devices, applications, websites, and notifications. Manipulation has never been so easy or…

Less than a year out from the 2020 presidential election, campaign season is well underway in the United States — both offline and online. In an effort to understand social media discussion around the election, our team at the Digital Intelligence Lab at Institute for the Future monitored and analyzed…

Twitter recently released a 1.6 GB archive of tweets that it determined had been spread by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as part of an information operations (IO) campaign to attack and discredit ongoing protests in Hong Kong. IFTF’s Digital Intelligence Lab analyzed the data to…

Only three weeks ago, Twitter made history with its announcement that the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was spreading disinformation to discredit the ongoing protests in Hong Kong opposing a new proposed law to extradite criminals in Hong Kong to mainland China. Acting on leads passed on…

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