Combating Disinformation Campaigns: A View From The Experts

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly of the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy. The bipartisan duo discuss their latest project on disinformation campaigns being conducted worldwide, explain how European nations served as a training ground for operations in the United States and describe how other authoritarian regimes are taking examples from Russia's toolkit. They also detail how Russia's effort to sow social and political discord have reached beyond social media platforms and lasted long beyond the 2016 election.

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0:29.0	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:33.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:37.8	So much of the activity that we see from Russia in terms of interference in our country,
0:43.7	and in our politics, is aimed at dividing us from each other.
0:47.1	And so we actually think it's of strategic importance to respond in a bipartisan way.
0:53.3	I know there's a couple of bills that have been put on the table.
0:58.0	Where do those stand?
0:59.0	There have been bills drafted that have bipartisan co-sponsors.
1:02.2	But there is gridlock right now.
1:03.6	Our broader political conversation about this issue is still stuck in that initial aspect
1:08.6	of the conversation about whether there's a problem, which is incredibly frustrating,
1:12.8	given how much evidence is now out.
1:18.1	The Alliance for Securing Democracy is a bipartisan transatlantic initiative housed at the German
1:23.3	Marshall Fund.
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