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Weekly monitor of pro-Kremlin disinformation effort in Europe. We follow best European analysts, best counter-measures and trends.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Topics of the Week<\/h1>\n

During a House panel last week, election experts\u00a0stressed<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Congress should increase funding to states so that they can purchase more secure voting<\/strong>machines that would make it harder for Russia (and other hostile actors) to hack US elections.<\/p>\n

France is planning to create a \u201cstudy group\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(similar to the EP or US Congress) in the National Assembly\u00a0on \u201cCybersecurity and National Sovereignty\u201d<\/strong>. No news on who will chair the group yet, but the plan demonstrates the seriousness of France\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n

The UK Ministry of Defence<\/strong>\u00a0has published a\u00a0study<\/a>, \u201cCountering hybrid warfare project: understanding hybrid warfare\u201d, with the\u00a0ambition to develop a framework under the Multinational Capability Development Campaign (MCDC) Countering Hybrid Warfare (CHW) project<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 to help nations understand, detect and respond to hybrid warfare.<\/p>\n

The International Forum for Democratic Studies introduced a\u00a0new blog,\u00a0Power 3.0<\/a>, focusing on the strategies that authoritarian regimes<\/strong>, including Russia and China, use to extend influence beyond their borders.<\/p>\n

Good Old Soviet Joke<\/h1>\n

Armenian Radio was asked: “Is it true that conditions in our labor camps are excellent?” Armenian Radio answers: “It is true. Five years ago a listener of ours raised the same question and was sent to one, reportedly to investigate the issue. He hasn’t returned yet; we are told that he liked it there.\u201c<\/p>\n

US Developments<\/h1>\n

Protecting voting systems against Russian hacking<\/h2>\n

During a House panel last week, election experts\u00a0stressed<\/a>\u00a0that Congress should increase funding to states so that they can purchase more secure voting machines that would make it harder for Russia (and other hostile actors) to hack US elections. The warning is particularly urgent in the run-up to the 2018 congressional elections. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Russian hackers tried to access the voting systems of 21 states during the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

The experts recommended a return to paper-based systems, like \u201coptical scanners that tabulate paper ballots and provide tangible evidence of election results\u201d, and discouraged the use of touchscreen voting machines, which can be hacked without leaving behind traceable forensic evidence. Several European countries have already\u00a0returned to paper-based voting<\/a>\u00a0amidst fear of Russian interference.<\/p>\n

Back in May, the Council on Foreign Relations published an extensive\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0addressing concerns about electoral cybersecurity and calling for \u201chigh-level political action [\u2026] to manage real and perceived cyber vulnerabilities in election systems\u201d. The report is an excellent introduction for those interested in understanding the weaknesses and exploitation risks of electronic voting systems.<\/p>\n

Russia investigation update<\/h2>\n

Two interesting developments emerged last week in the Russia investigation:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Senate Judiciary Committee (one of three congressional committees probing Russian interference in the election) is now investigating the role of the National Rifle Association in connecting the Trump campaign with Russians. The inquiry concerns the meeting of Donald Trump, Jr. and Alexander Torshin, deputy governor of Russia\u2019s central bank (and a lifetime member of the NRA) at an NRA convention in May 2016. Read more\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Comedian Randy Credico has been identified as the intermediary between Wikileaks\u2019 Julian Assange and Trump adviser Roger Stone, who has come under scrutiny for appearing to have advance knowledge of the Clinton campaign\u2019s email hack. He has been subpoenaed to appear before the House Intelligence Committee in December. Credico gave an\u00a0interview to RT<\/a>following the news in which he claimed that the subpoena was \u201cabout chilling WikiLeaks, and that starts with intimidating anyone who has met with Julian.\u201d Read more\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The family spat grows uglier<\/h2>\n

    Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is using\u00a0increasingly harsh language<\/a>\u00a0to condemn Russian hostile influence efforts, in explicit opposition to President Trump\u2019s equivocation and consistent sympathies towards Putin. While Trump again recently repeated his belief that \u2018Putin is telling the truth\u2019 when he denies meddling in the election, and praised his Nov. 21 phone call with Putin on Syria, Tillerson has been unusually forcible in his criticism of Russia\u2019s actions. During a speech last week, he cited Russia\u2019s \u201cmalicious tactics\u201d and chided Russia\u2019s hostilities towards its neighbors and other liberal democratic states as \u201cnot the behaviors of a responsible nation.\u201d The State Department also issued a statement denouncing Russia\u2019s move to pejoratively label all foreign media as \u2018foreign agents\u2019.<\/p>\n

    The impasse between Trump and his national security team is growing, and the lack of a clear, assertive policy is enabling adversarial actors like Russia to pursue their own agendas. The in-house conflict between Trump and his advisers is expected to come to a head with the $47 million arms deal for Ukraine, which now awaits Trump\u2019s signature. The deal has the full support of his national security team, as well as the administration\u2019s special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker. Trump\u2019s course of action so far remains unclear.<\/p>\n

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    The Kremlin\u2019s Current Narrative<\/h1>\n

    \u201cGlory\u201d to Mladic, shame to the ICTY?<\/h2>\n

    Russia\u2019s coverage of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is truly quite challenging to follow. Last week, Russia\u2019s Vzlgyad reacted to news about the conviction of former Bosnian Serb\u00a0general Ratko Mladic<\/a>\u00a0with a long piece about a \u201cSrebrenica cult\u201d in Europe,\u00a0\u201can entire system of pressure against stubborn nations, first of all Serbs and Russians\u201d,\u00a0<\/em>and, predictably, denying that Srebrenica was an act of genocide. In a dramatic flourish, the article ended with the words\u00a0\u201cGlory to general Mladic\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    This week, Russians once again had a chance to recall their narrative regarding events in former Yugoslavia, after convicted Bosnian Croat general Praljak drank poison at the ICTY court hearing. This was, obviously, a\u00a0\u201ccourt\u201d of fake justice<\/em><\/a>, according to RT. Devoting almost no attention to Praljak himself, RT rails against \u201cthe dubious legitimacy<\/em>\u201d of the ICTY and American sponsorship of it, claims that the US \u201claunched a war on Yugoslavia<\/em>\u201d and later founded the ICTY to cover up its crimes.\u00a0\u201cThe ICTY has proven to be what we expected it to be, a kangaroo court, using fascist methods of justice that engaged in selective prosecution to advance the NATO agenda of the conquest of the Balkans as a prelude to aggression against Russia\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Alternative news or Kremlin news?<\/h2>\n

    Recently, RT has written many articles accusing everyone around of propaganda, censorship, double standards, limiting freedom of expression… after all, what else is new? The latest target is Google\u2019s decision to\u00a0de-rank RT<\/a>\u00a0in response to allegations about recent American election meddling by the Putin regime. RT predictably ignored the allegations, deciding that\u00a0the best defence is offence<\/a>: \u201cIts true purpose is to control the political narrative, in order to keep people from reading different perspectives and asking inconvenient questions\u201d; \u201cGoogle is a cheerleader for American militarism and a loyal partner to war profiteers both in the arms industry and in Congress\u201d;\u00a0<\/em>and our personal favourite, \u201cIt\u2019s a war against anything that Google executives in Silicon Valley and their collaborators in government deem to be the wrong kind of news, the wrong kind of ideas, the wrong way of thinking\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>RT\u2019s outrage is so righteous and convincing that one might actually be tempted to entertain the idea that RT is in fact the true victim \u2013 until one recalls that RT is financed by Russia: the biggest worldwide supporter of terrorism, a state that blackmails other countries, invades neighbours, annexes their territories, and supports radicals all around the world. To be clear: RT has never been about \u2018alternative news\u2019,\u00a0<\/em>only Kremlin news.<\/p>\n

    Policy & Research News<\/h1>\n

    Polish women shooting separatists in Donbas?<\/h2>\n

    VSquare published a thorough\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0of a disinformation story that has been circulating on Kremlin-backed media, complemented by massive support from pro-Russian trolls. One report, published by the Russian press agency RIA Novosti in March, included accusations of alleged foreign (often female) mercenaries from Poland killing hundreds of separatists from Donbas. The false reports lack any evidence, usually supporting the narrative about female snipers with photos of men. Some of them claim that the mercenaries were hired by agencies that, upon investigation, turn out to be non-existent.<\/p>\n

    Social media will share the outreach of Russian-backed accounts<\/h2>\n

    The chair of the British digital, culture, media and sport committee, Damian Collins,\u00a0asked<\/a>\u00a0Facebook and Twitter to provide information about whether Russia-backed accounts had been used during the Brexit referendum to influence voters. In response, and also addressing the UK\u2019s Electoral Commission, Facebook and Twitter stated that they will publish the results of their investigations in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

    The influence of authoritarian regimes<\/h2>\n

    The International Forum for Democratic Studies introduced a new blog,\u00a0Power 3.0<\/a>, focusing on the strategies that authoritarian regimes, including Russia and China, use to extend their influence beyond their borders. The analysis and commentaries on the blog will be dedicated to topics encompassing the role of new technologies in weakening democracies, gaps in the international financial system, weaknesses of global culture and education, as well as the strengths and best practices of democratic countries when dealing with these threats.<\/p>\n

    Seven days with RT<\/h2>\n

    It is commonly said that you cannot judge something unless you\u2019ve seen it. This is why Tim Dowling from\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0spent a week watching RT, which recently was forced to register as a foreign agent in the United States. According to his report, Russia is rarely the main topic of RT coverage. The \u201coverarching narrative is a tale of the west\u2019s unrelenting decline.\u201d RT reports are typically accompanied by statements from unheard of \u201cexperts\u201d, and sometimes include appearances by politicians who get\u00a0paid<\/a>for their attendance. According to Dowling, \u201cmore than outright lies, RT deals in moral equivalency.\u201d He highlights the fact that a significant portion of RT coverage is harmless and fairly normal, only interlaced with disinformation or manipulation from time to time, which worsens the impact.<\/p>\n

    Kremlin Watch Reading Suggestion<\/h1>\n

    Digital Hydra: Security Implications of False Information Online<\/a><\/h2>\n

    That the online dissemination of \u2018fake news\u2019 is a problem requiring urgent redress is something that has been widely realized, with numerous possible solutions being proposed and, in some cases, implemented. However, the fight against disinformation does not lend itself to easy fixes. Fittingly, the authors of a NATO StratCom CoE study called\u00a0Digital Hydra<\/a>\u00a0likened false information to the mythical creature that could generate two heads for each head it lost to the axe. In order to slay it, Hercules had to think outside the box, burn the stumps of the severed heads and smash the only mortal head with a rock. Analogously,\u00a0anyone who is battling disinformation online must think beyond simply debunking individual stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    To be able to successfully fight against fake news and its circulation on social media, one must have sufficient knowledge of both the problem itself and the measures being used to combat it. This study offers both, focusing on\u00a0geographical and cultural differences in the use of social media platforms<\/strong>\u00a0and therefore in spreading disinformation; on\u00a0blogs<\/strong>, which the authors consider vital for understanding contemporary disinformation campaigns; and on the\u00a0collection of user data by third-party services<\/strong>, which can be exploited for targeted information activities.<\/p>\n

    The study concludes with four elementary recommendations:\u00a0data awareness\u00a0<\/strong>(the general public must be educated on how their online behavior is being tracked and how it can be used against them),\u00a0channel identification<\/strong>\u00a0(detecting \u201cbackbone\u201d sites, which helps understanding the context in which false stories originate),\u00a0dialogue with the industry<\/strong>\u00a0(social media companies must take a more active role in tackling this issue and cooperating with authorities), and\u00a0regulation<\/strong>\u00a0(particularly in order to protect personal data).<\/p>\n

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