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How Democracies Can Defend Themselves Against Disinformation Campaigns

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Mark Leon Goldberg
Mar 08, 2018
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As the United States enters its next election cycle, American democracy is still extremely vulnerable to disinformation campaigns from Russia. Other democracies, particularly in Europe, are also vulnerable to this kind of threat and, indeed, have also been the target of Russian meddling. So how can countries protect themselves against nefarious attempts to sow illiberal discord?

A new report from The Atlantic Council identifies some concrete ways that the United States and Europe can defend against foreign propaganda, disinformation, and election related hacking. On the line with me to discuss this report and its findings is one of the report's co-authors, Ambassador Daniel Fried. He was a longtime US diplomatic who's career largely focused Russia and central and eastern Europe. The report was co-authored by Alina Polyakova of the Brookings Institute.

The report provides a useful heuristic for understanding the problem: it breaks down and categorizes the various kinds of election meddli…

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