Internet Research Agency

  • Feed-ing into propaganda: The effects of memetic warfare 2026-07-11 23:21 New University - California The face of propaganda shifts as times change, and governments have always manipulated the media to achieve their own goals. During World War II, it was radio. During the Vietnam War, it was government television. Today, it is social media. Social media is …
  • Facebook Says Russian Trolls Hired U.S. Journalists To Push News Website 2026-07-10 15:35 KNST - Arizona Facebook has deleted the accounts tied to a news site that was created by a group of Russian trolls who were linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which waged a misinformation campaign on social media during the 2016 presidential election. Facebook …
  • Opinion: Why “they” want us to hate each other 2026-07-10 08:05 Idaho State Journal Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican representing Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and Tom Suozzi, Democrat from New York’s Third District, are today’s version of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison from the TV sitcom “The Odd Couple.” I recently met and …
  • The Tech Founder Creating an Army of AI Influencers 2026-07-01 13:46 Intelligencer - New York Photo: Courtesy of the subjects This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. This content can't be displayed right now. To view this embed, please accept targeting cookies. It's loaded from a third party and …
  • Russia's wiki warfare tries to distort reality, documents show 2026-06-24 09:39 Jewish World Review SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY JWR UPDATE. IT'S FREE. (AND NO SPAM!) Just click here. Russian influence operators called it Project 2026. The plan wasn't just to spread fabricated stories on social media platforms. It outlined efforts to create an …
  • Storm-1516 and rise of Russia’s disinformation networks 2026-06-14 17:55 Ukrainian Week Discussions of Russian disinformation often get stuck on individual fakes or isolated campaigns. But that misses the bigger picture. Behind them sits a web of interconnected networks, built up over years, quietly shaping a global ecosystem of Russian …
  • Crowdsourcing Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Is Shaping the News 2026-06-04 23:40 WPSU - Pennsylvania About the Guest: Kate Starbird is a Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington (UW). Kate’s research sits within the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported …
  • Why Conflict Feels Constant Now 2026-06-04 14:05 NOEMA Credits John Last is a freelance journalist and former foreign correspondent living outside Ottawa, Canada. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of war …
  • Candace Owens is speaking in Russia, but sources say Putin is only manipulating her to spread his propaganda 2026-06-04 05:04 New York Post Candace Owens has finally found a national stage willing to give her baseless conspiracy theories airtime. However, the country is Russia and dictator Valdimir Putin will be the headline speaker when she appears at the St. Petersburg International Economic …
  • Artofficial Intelligence 2026-05-22 20:47 GEOPolitics Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most powerful tools in the modern state’s toolkit for governance, surveillance, and social control. It is among the most transformative developments in human history. Like the printing press, electricity, …
  • The next election could be less secure 2026-05-21 10:25 Salon This article was originally published on The Conversation. With the 2026 midterms less than six months away, the Election Security Group would normally be busy helping prepare the nation’s election infrastructure. The federal task force typically briefs …
  • For the first time in a decade, the next election could be less secure than the one preceding it 2026-05-20 14:44 Leader Publications - Missouri (BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA) With the 2026 midterms less than six months away, the Election Security Group would normally be busy helping prepare the nation’s election infrastructure. The federal task force typically briefs Congress on upcoming threats and …
  • Why Is Smith Still Giving Separatists a Ride? 2026-05-20 04:46 The Tyee Let’s look in on what may be the most important story in Canada. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners We’re calling it Reality Check LIVE. Get your ticket for May 21 in Vancouver. Founding editor David Beers is passing the baton …
  • What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in <em>The Wizard of the Kremlin</em> 2026-05-15 23:38 Slate Magazine The Wizard of the Kremlin is the story of Vladimir Putin’s rise to and consolidation of power as seen through the eyes of his chief special adviser, a character based on Vladislav Surkov, who was a key architect of Putin’s “managed democracy.” He was also …
  • Russia’s AI Disinformation Machine Is Ramping Up Ahead of the US Midterms 2026-05-15 14:36 Insight News Media Russia is using AI to produce election disinformation at industrial scale, with a single influence operation nearly doubling its output in early 2026 as the US midterms approach.  Storm-1516 is a Russian influence operation first identified in December …
  • CNN has lately moved away from hard news to more opinion programming | The Excerpt 2026-05-13 14:14 USA Today May 13, 2026, 9:34 a.m. ET On the Wednesday, May 12, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, passed away last week at the age of 87. His impact on cable TV and the news industry writ large will endure for generations to come. …
  • Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report 2026-05-06 19:35 CBC/Radio-Canada A year ago, weeks after the Carney Liberals won the last federal election, the website albertaseparatist.com sprang up, accompanied by similarly named TikTok and YouTube accounts. Article headlines included “The case for sovereignty over statehood” and “ …
  • Foreign actors targeting Alberta separatism to stoke discord, researchers say 2026-05-06 14:02 The Globe and Mail Open this photo in gallery:A separatist convoy gathers in Edmonton on Monday. Alberta’s proposed referendum on independence is being targeted by foreign actors seeking to sow discord in the province, a study being released this week by the Global Centre …
  • Slopaganda is the new propaganda 2026-05-03 19:50 The Indian Weekender The use of memes driven by tension with Donald Trump was an early indicator of a more fundamental change going forward through Iran in terms of their messages. Today, analysts refer to this phase of information warfare as "slopaganda," which …
  • The Ultimate Noise: AI and News Pollution 2026-04-30 02:01 WPSU - Pennsylvania About the Guest: Jack Brewster is Enterprise Editor forNewsGuard. Prior to working atNewsGuard, Brewster was a Fulbright scholar in Munich, Germany, conducting a research project about the role of journalists in the digital age. Previously, Brewster was a …
  • Ukraine witness helped with 2016 and 2020 assessments on Russian meddling – now he is backpedaling 2026-04-30 00:00 Just the News A key witness in the U.S. intelligence community's assessments on Russian meddling into the 2016 and 2020 U.S. elections and Congress' attempt to impeach President Trump for purportedly pressuring Ukraine to help him win the first race is now …
  • ✰PREMIUM War is now a meme 2026-04-25 15:46 Brooklyn Eagle - New York In April 2026, as American missiles were still falling on Iran, a propaganda video went viral. It was animated in the style of The LEGO Movie: bright, blocky, cheerful. Trump spiraled through a vortex of Epstein files. Iranian commanders rapped. The …
  • Judge awards $150M judgment to Emanuel Church shooting survivors 2026-04-23 08:10 WCSC - South Carolina CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — A South Carolina judge has awarded a pair of $75 million default judgments to two survivors of the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting. The original lawsuit, which was filed by M.P., a minor, through her mother, Felicia Sanders, …
  • Judge orders Russian groups to pay $150 million to families of some Charleston Church massacre victims 2026-04-23 02:49 WLTX 19 - South Carolina The two lawsuits both said that the shooter was radicalized by online platforms and Russian propaganda efforts. CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge issued default judgments totaling $150 million in two separate lawsuits filed by some of the families …
  • Emanuel AME survivors can seek $150M from Russian companies who radicalized shooter, judge rules 2026-04-22 12:18 The Post & Courier - South Carolina CHARLESTON — Children who survived the 2015 racially-motivated massacre at Emanuel AME are entitled to $150 million in damages from the Russian companies who knowingly disseminated content designed to incite violence against Black Americans. Survivors …
  • Federal Judge Awards $150 Million in Mother Emanuel Cases, Citing Russian Disinformation Campaign 2026-04-21 15:39 Columbia Urban Broadcast Network - South Carolina Rev. Clementa Pinckney stands as a symbol of faith, leadership, and loss at the center of a historic federal ruling holding foreign actors accountable for the forces that helped fuel the Mother Emanuel massacre. CUBNSC Charleston, S.C. - A federal judge in …
  • Security in the age of invisible war 2026-04-15 00:47 Meer This article will be explaining why the classic images that come to mind when we hear the word “war”—trenches, tanks, missiles, and front lines—are no longer enough on their own. Security is increasingly being tested in an “invisible” space, a battlefield …
  • How Putin Is Working to Keep Orbán in Power? 2026-04-11 06:28 Sri Lanka Guardian We are just days away from Hungary’s nail-biting election, and one of Russia’s most familiar tactics is playing out again, the same one seen so many times in Ukraine, Moldova, the U.S., across Europe, and wherever Moscow looks to shape election outcomes. …
  • Mother Emanuel lawsuit targets Russian disinformation network, alleges role in Charleston church massacre 2026-04-10 20:18 Columbia Urban Broadcast Network - South Carolina Dylann Roof is shown in a widely circulated image holding a Confederate flag, a symbol later central to discussions of racial extremism and online radicalization following the 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church massacre. Investigative  |  Civil Rights  |  …
  • Russian Bots, Kremlin Agitprop, and Meta’s Blind Eye: The Disinformation War Over Hungary’s 2026 Election 2026-04-09 04:59 The Cherry Creek News - Colorado By Guerin Lee Green Published: April 8, 2026 €1.7 million on Facebook promotional content. A spending ratio of 11 to 1 over independent media. AI-generated attack videos reaching millions. Fidesz and its proxy organizations didn’t just outspend Hungary’s …
  • Disinformation disproportionately harms nonwhite groups online through voter suppression 2026-03-25 12:48 The Badger Herald - Wisconsin A University of Wisconsin study on voter suppression revealed that disinformation organizations used social media ads to suppress voting in nonwhite communities primarily in battleground states like Wisconsin, according to UW News. This is worrisome for …
  • Russian-style shadow campaign appears to be behind Fidesz, executed rather amateurishly so far 2026-03-23 20:32 Telex As the parliamentary election campaign in Hungary enters its final stretch, almost every day has brought some particularly exciting political event of late. This was especially true on March 15, when the participants of the Fidesz-organized Peace March and …
  • Rachel Maddow Parses The Facts of The Mueller Report: It ‘Should Have Been a Presidency-Stopping’ Event 2026-03-22 07:42 Mediaite - New York MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow parsed out the facts of the 2019 Mueller report Saturday after The Weekend Primetime co-host Antonia Hylton claimed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign has been “whitewashed” over the years. …
  • Robert S. Mueller, who rebuilt FBI and led Trump inquiry, dies at 81 2026-03-21 20:51 Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii Robert S. Mueller III, who led the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 tumultuous years, brought politically explosive indictments as a special counsel examining Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election, then concluded that he could neither …
  • Robert S. Mueller III, 81, dies; rebuilt FBI and led Trump inquiry 2026-03-21 20:31 San Francisco Examiner - California Robert S. Mueller III, who led the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 tumultuous years, brought politically explosive indictments as a special counsel examining Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election, and then concluded that he could …
  • Narrative as a Weapon: Russian, Iranian, and Chinese Approaches to Cognitive Warfare 2026-03-19 13:45 Small Wars Journal The Social Design Agency (SDA), a Kremlin-linked agent, executed a significant influence operation known as Operation Doppelgänger from 2022 to 2024. Through Doppelgänger, the SDA disseminated pro-Russian narratives by fabricating legitimate news websites …
  • AI Fakes Spread Disinformation. Is the Distrust They Create Even Worse? 2026-03-09 13:08 Mother Jones Mother Jones illustration; Alejandro Barba/Unsplash Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Less than a day after President Donald Trump falsely suggested that Ilhan Omar had …
  • The Cognitive Battlespace: Psychological Operations, Influencer Warfare, And The Fight For Human Perception 2026-03-04 10:00 Military.com Military and intelligence doctrine increasingly identifies cognition as a central domain of modern warfare. Rather than focusing exclusively on physical destruction, contemporary conflict seeks to influence perception, belief formation, and decision-making …
  • Why Russia’s War for Minds May Be Its Best Weapon—An Interview with a Spanish Colonel 2026-02-26 18:10 UNITED24 Media Europe has invested billions in tanks, aircraft, and cyber defense. But another domain is often overlooked: cognition. In this interview with Spanish Colonel Juan Bustamante, we explore how Russia’s doctrine of information warfare leverages disinformation …
  • FT: The PMC “Wagner” propagandists massively recruit agents for sabotage in Europe 2026-02-16 21:09 Babel Recruiters and propagandists who previously worked for the Russian PMC “Wagner” have become one of the main channels for Kremlin-organized sabotage attacks in Europe. This is reported by the Financial Times, citing data from Western intelligence …
  • McIntosh: We’re being played, America. And we keep falling for it 2026-02-13 08:17 The Press Democrat - California Our federal budget deficit is on track to be another $1.8 trillion this year. Our national debt is fast approaching $40 trillion. Around 27 million people in the United States lack health insurance, which is a little over 8% of the population. The No. 1 …
  • Lies, deceit and disinformation: The fake news with the power to change the course of war 2026-02-06 18:57 BFBS Forces News Deceit and disinformation - the weapons of grey zone warfare Can fake news really change the course of a war? Behind the scenes, hostile states can distort the stories that land on your newsfeed and change the way you see the world. "Info Ops" …
  • How Russia rebuilt hacker gangs to attack the West, leading to a US indictment 2026-02-03 17:01 The Kyiv Independent St. Basil’s Cathedral, right, and the Savior Tower on the Kremlin walls are seen at twilight from Red Square in Moscow, Russia. (Photo: Peter Turnley / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images; Collage: The Kyiv Independent) Muleshoe, population 5,000, sits …
  • Eurasia Review Interviews: Disinformation, Platforms, And Cognitive Security In The Algorithmic Age  2026-01-29 17:38 Eurasia Review An interview with Yuliia Dukach, PhD, Head of Disinformation Investigations at OpenMinds  Disinformation is no longer best understood as a sequence of viral falsehoods or episodic campaigns. It now operates as a persistent feature of the digital …
  • Did Racially-Targeted Ads Decrease 2016 Election Turnout? 2026-01-28 01:17 Urban Milwaukee - Wisconsin Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Madison residents fill out ballots Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at the Madison Senior Center in Madison, Wis. Angela Major/WPR Targeted digital voter suppression advertisements from undisclosed …
  • Racially-targeted voter suppression ads likely decreased 2016 election turnout 2026-01-27 11:53 Wisconsin Public Radio Targeted digital voter suppression advertisements from undisclosed organizations likely shaped turnout during the 2016 presidential election, a new study has found.  The ads mainly targeted Black, Native American and Latino potential voters living in …
  • AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy 2026-01-22 23:57 Wired In 2016, hundreds of Russians filed into a modern office building on 55 Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg every day; they were part of the now-infamous troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency. Day and night, seven days a week, these employees …
  • Allegations of Russian Interference in Elections Raise Concerns Over Electoral Integrity 2025-12-17 23:27 Misbar Germany has accused the Russian government of a cyberattack on air traffic control, as well as attempts to interfere in German elections, and has summoned Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergei Nechayev over allegations of Russian “hybrid attacks.” Germany …
  • Disrupter Of The Year: GAIM 2025-12-15 20:14 MediaPost It has been seven years since the editors of MediaPost awarded a media "Disrupter of the Year," and the last time we bestowed it, it was awarded to Russia's Russia's Internet Research Agency for the ingenious way it disrupted the 2016 U.S …
  • The war on disinformation is a losing battle 2025-12-09 12:29 The Verge As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American free speech had been critically threatened, and now it was saved — in large part …