February 12, 2018 | FDD's Foreign Podicy

Russia’s Disinformation Offensive

Episode 7
Clifford D. May

Founder & President
Jamie Fly

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Laura Rosenberger

German Marshall Fund

February 12, 2018 | FDD's Foreign Podicy

Russia’s Disinformation Offensive

Episode 7

Clifford D. May

Founder & President
Jamie Fly

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Laura Rosenberger

German Marshall Fund

About

Using social media, tech platforms and cyber weapons, the Russian government is running a sophisticated campaign to undermine faith in America’s democratic institutions, assist extremists on both the left and right, polarize Americans, and poison policy debates.

Foreign Podicy host, Cliff May, is joined by Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., to discuss their research on Russia’s campaign to strategically deceive public opinion, and their urgent recommendation that a bipartisan effort be mounted to combat Putin’s disinformation offensive.

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Background resources

Shredding the Putin Playbook

The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election should have served as a wake-up call for Americans that something we took for granted—democracy—is vulnerable to attack by foreign adversaries in new and powerful ways. Instead, we’re mired in debate about whether the interference even occurred, and whether it mattered. Yet Moscow continues to exploit systemic societal vulnerabilities, including the erosion of public faith in democratic institutions, growing political polarization, and the failure to fully grasp the power of new technological tools, to mount an offensive on democratic institutions and civic debate.

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Issues:

Cyber Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare Russia