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Global Disinformation Lab Team Wins Fall 2023 William & Mary Global Innovation Challenge Competition

🔗: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/news/global-disinformation-lab-team-wins-fall-2023-william-mary-global-innovation-challenge-competition

Part 4 of a 5 part series from Team Cyber Pacific just went live: The Chinese Communist Party Cyber Threat to Japan. Read it here!

The Chinese Communist Party Cyber Threat to Japan - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin A discussion from GDIL's Cyber Pacific Team on Japan's cyber defense efforts with a focus on the concepts of domainification and integration.

Team Barnowl has just posted their latest blogpost "Can we use ChatGPT to detect disinformation sites?" Think you know the results? Take a look to see!

Can we use ChatGPT to detect disinformation sites? - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin A discussion from GDIL's Cyber Pacific Team on Japan's cyber defense efforts with a focus on the concepts of domainification and integration.

Join Lee McIntyre on August 24th online as he discusses his new book On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy.

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy: Lee McIntyre in Conversation with The New York Times’ Tiffany Hsu - The 92nd Street Y, New York Online. Join Lee McIntyre for a conversation with Tiffany Hsu about the relationship between scientific fact and democratic ideals and his new book, On Disinformation.

Part 3 of a 5 part series on cyber threats in the pacific is now live! Congratulations to the Cyber Pacific Team!

The CCP Cyber Threat to Taiwan - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin A discussion from GDIL's Cyber Pacific Team on Japan's cyber defense efforts with a focus on the concepts of domainification and integration.

We are pleased to announce that GDIL’s “Cyber Pacific” team has received a $250,000 grant from the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point https://gdil.org/866-2/

✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨ Ukrainian Ambassador 🇺🇦 Oksana Markarova will be giving the opening keynote at moderated by on Monday April 10th 9am ET/8am CT. Register today!

2023 #Connexions Conference From April 10-12, 2023, the Conference will take place at The University of Texas at Austin.

GDIL's Bellwether Team has released the first in its series: "Disinformation: Fueling Election Distrust in the American Public in the 21st Century"

Bellwether Series 1: Disinformation: Fueling Election Distrust in the American Public in the 21st Century - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin A discussion from GDIL's Cyber Pacific Team on Japan's cyber defense efforts with a focus on the concepts of domainification and integration.

The response to our Conference has been amazing! Be sure to register for in-person or virtual attendance (April 10-12) soon!

#Connexions Conference Information about the 2023 Conference at The University of Texas at Austin, April 10-12, 2023. Register now!

Don't miss the upcoming Conference on global media and foreign policy (with a focus on disinformation)
April 10-12th in person (UT Campus) or view the livestream.

#Connexions Conference Information about the 2023 Conference at The University of Texas at Austin, April 9-11, 2023. The call for papers link can be found here as well as registration information.

Adam Hanzel and Kiril Avramov Published in Journal of Illiberalism Studies on "an in-depth analysis of the interplay between Patriarch Kirill’s ideology of “Holy Tradition” and the movement Sorok Sorokov."

Patriarch Kirill’s Praetorian Guard: Sorok Sorokov as Radical Outreach for “Holy Tradition” | illiberalism.org Adam Hanzel and Kiril Avramov on the interplay between Patriarch Kirill’s ideology of “Holy Tradition” and the movement Sorok Sorokov.

Read the newest GDIL blogpost by Team Cyber Pacific on "Domainification and Integration in a Decade; A Military Cyber Reading of Japan’s New Strategic Documents"

Domainification and Integration in a Decade; A Military Cyber Reading of Japan’s New Strategic Documents - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin This blog is the first publication of the Cyber Pacific project at the Global Disinformation Lab. To begin this project, we decided to ‘read the room’ of the east Asian cyber domain to identify key actors and their recent activities.

Global Disinformation Policy Database Will Help Policymakers and Others Fight Disinformation The Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, is developing the Global Disinformation Policy Database (GDPD). This database is a comprehensive resource of global laws and policies related to disinformation and misi...

Thanks to UT's College for Liberal Arts for their proud shoutout to Team Evergreen

Global Disinformation Policy Database Will Help Policymakers and Others Fight Disinformation The Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, is developing the Global Disinformation Policy Database (GDPD). This database is a comprehensive resource of global laws and policies related to disinformation and misi...

War on the Rocks podcast features Kiril Avramov interview of Mark Pomar.

The Truth Shall Set You Free: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War - War on the Rocks On this week's episode of Horns of a Dilemma Clement Center Senior National Security Fellow Mark Pomar, who helped to oversee the Russian language

Taylor Ham (GDL TTL) Published in International Peer-Reviewed Journal

Taylor Ham Published in International Peer-Reviewed Journal - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin Taylor Ham (GDIL TTL) has been published in the December 2022 volume of the Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies. Read "Such a Way with Words: Narrative Construction in Russia's Domestic News Coverage of Military Companies in Central African Republic" here.

NGA and the Global -Dis-Information Lab at the The University of Texas at Austin have collaborated through NGA’s open-source Tearline program to study displaced persons activity from a perspective in Ukraine. Full press release 👉 https://www.nga.mil/news/1671720903204_Tearline_research_highlights_displaced_Ukrainians.html

On our joint work with NGA's Project "Tearline"here:

Tearline research highlights displaced Ukrainians | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and The Global Disinformation Lab at the University of Texas in Austin have collaborated through NGA’s open-source Tearline program to study displaced persons activity from a GEOINT perspective in Ukraine.

New Policy Memo

Public Pressure on Multinational Corporations in Russia Post-Invasion of Ukraine: a Comparative Perspective

By Julian Alin, Abigail Eichenberg, Volodymyr Kulikov, and Mykhaylo Simanovskyy

Since February 24, 2022, the multinational corporations (MNCs) running businesses in Russia have encountered challenges rarely dealt with at business schools. They face ethical dilemmas and feel strong pressure from their shareholders and stakeholders, forcing corporate executives to make decisions that go well beyond usual business strategizing. Hundreds of companies have decided to divest, withdraw, or scale down their operations in Russia. In contrast, others have justified a decision to stay by citing their responsibility toward their employees in Russia and their unwillingness to deprive Russia’s population of essential goods such as food and medical supplies. How does public pressure affect corporate behavior and reputation? What distinguishes the shaming campaigns of 2022 on the MNCs that decided to stay in Russia? To answer these questions, we compared them to two seminal 20th-century boycott campaigns: activist campaigns related to Apartheid South Africa and the so-called “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led effort promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. [...]

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https://www.ponarseurasia.org/public-pressure-on-multinational-corporations-in-russia-post-invasion-of-ukraine-a-comparative-perspective/

Our awesome student researchers' work is featured at intel.gov's Daily Brief:

INTEL - NGA Tearline: Russia Reallocates Resources to Filtration Operations This report builds on the knowledge base of Russia’s “filtration” system of displaced civilians in Ukraine previously reported in the Donetsk Oblast t...

Check out the Cyber Pacific project’s break down of some of the key east asian state organizations in cyberspace! The team digs into what makes operationalizing cyberspace so challenging and how governments in the region are crafting policy to tackle the issue.

Reading the Room: China, Taiwan, Japan, and US in the Cyber Domain - GDIL | Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin This blog is the first publication of the Cyber Pacific project at the Global Disinformation Lab. To begin this project, we decided to ‘read the room’ of the east Asian cyber domain to identify key actors and their recent activities.

Check out the latest from our Lab's student researchers in collaboration with NGA's Project on how Russia Reallocates Resources to Filtration Operations Based On Anticipated Flow of Displaced Ukrainian Civilians
https://www.tearline.mil/public_page/ukraine-filtration/

Russia Reallocates Resources to Filtration Operations Based On Anticipated Flow of Displaced Ukrainian Civilians According to commercial satellite imagery and open-source reporting, Moscow dismantled tents at alleged filtration sites in the southern Donetsk Oblast region, at the Russian Veselo-Voznesenka border checkpoint, and along the M-2 Highway between the towns of Kharkiv and Belgorod in Russia likely due...

Global -Dis-Information Lab is hosting Thomas Kent of Columbia University and formerly of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Thursday, November 17 at 9:30 am CT in RLP 1.302E.

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NEW: Read the latest report from GDIL's Project Barn Owl "Behind the Veil: The Marketing of Iranian State Media to Foreign Audiences". The team of student researchers demonstrate how to use search engine optimization signals to track Iranian state narratives surrounding the Mahsa Amini protests.

Behind the Veil: The Marketing of Iranian State Media to Foreign Audiences University of Texas at Austin students track online Iranian state narratives regarding the Mahsa Amini protests with search engine optimization.

Upcoming free event on disinformation at The University of Texas at Austin

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