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1 month ago | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Justin Sherman |Justin Sherman |Gavin Wilde |Julius Krein
Nearly a decade has passed since the breach of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese state-backed hackers in the spring of 2015. That the operation netted Beijing the detailed backgrounds and personal data of over twenty million federal employees, clearance-holders, and applicants, as well as that of their co-habitants and spouses, constituted one of the most damaging counterintelligence breaches in U.S. history.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Gavin Wilde
On the spectrum of threats to free and fair elections, the airing of campaigns’ dirty laundry would be lamentable but hardly warrants catastrophizing.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
cyberscoop.com | Gavin Wilde
Over the past year, the Biden administration has rolled out a pair of banner cybersecurity initiatives that security and privacy advocates have hailed as small but positive steps toward a more secure digital ecosystem. The first is a “secure-by-design” partnership with the tech sector to shift the burden of software security toward its initial developers; the second is the formation of an international coalition to curb the proliferation of commercial spyware.
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May 28, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Gavin Wilde |Rick Landgraf
Gavin Wilde joined TNSR managing editor Rick Landgraf to discuss Gavin’s recent article about the effects of foreign propaganda on U.S. domestic politics. They discuss how the fear that hostile foreign powers could subvert democracy by spreading misinformation may be exaggerated, as the relationship between people’s beliefs and attitudes and their media consumption remains unclear.
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May 14, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Gavin Wilde
“And who, in this moment, is the real Sefton Delmer?” asks Peter Pomerantsev about the subject of his new book, “How to Win an Information War.” “Which is his real voice, the one that expresses his ‘true’ identity? The Sefton Delmer who sings along to German war songs?
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May 3, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Gavin Wilde |Lee Foster |Olga Belogolova |Thomas Rid
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base”, Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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May 3, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Olga Belogolova |Lee Foster |Thomas Rid |Gavin Wilde
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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May 3, 2024 | 
archive.ph | Olga Belogolova |Lee Foster |Thomas Rid |Gavin Wilde
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Gavin Wilde
Washington has long puzzled over the rationale behind Moscow’s aggressive behavior. In more recent years, it has grappled with incidents ranging from botched assassination attempts and election interference to doomsday weapons and cyber attacks to “little green men” in Ukraine. But in the past two decades, Moscow’s subterfuge has increasingly bordered on cartoonish, as have the half-winking denials that have routinely poured from its officials.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
tnsr.org | Gavin Wilde
Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election led to intense public and scholarly debates over the role of foreign propaganda — deliberate and systematic attempts to use media to shape perceptions and direct behavior within domestic politics.1 Russia’s brazen operation and Donald Trump’s victory were both unexpected, leaving analysts grasping for answers about the extent to which Russian activities may have influenced the outcome.
