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Public Diplomacy and the New “Old” War: Countering State-Sponsored Disinformation (2020)

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy The ACPD is a bipartisan panel created by Congress in 1948 to appraise all U.S. government efforts to understand,...

NGOs urge Facebook to stop censoring Palestinian content

(MENAFN - Palestine News Network) Bethlehem/PNN/ Separately, several Palestinian and international non-governmental organizations called on Facebook to stop censoring Palestinians and Palestine advocates and to...

Can the international system be fixed?

Former senior British diplomat and author Tom Fletcher discusses UN reforms and the future of diplomacy. Former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld famously said that: “The...

“Thousands of Cameras” – a citizen response to mass biometric surveillance

SHARE, an organisation based in Belgrade, are investigating Huawei's dealings with the Serbian government. In this case study, they explain what obstacles they faced...

Opinion: On China, Thai netizens contradict official diplomacy

It was a strange digital flareup. Ceaselessly, and seemingly inexplicably, over an entire night and day, Thai and Chinese netizens took to Twitter to...

‘Coronavirus Diplomacy’ Won’t Change Serbia’s Path

Despite accepting aid from China to fight the coronavirus, the president of Serbia writes that his country is committed to a pro-Western foreign policy. A...

Why government websites fail

While the rest of the world has evolved to a place where we can track anything at all times and order anything from anywhere,...

Nina Jankowicz & Peter Pomerantsev on the Future of Disinformation

04 May Nina Jankowicz & Peter Pomerantsev on the Future of Disinformation Posted at 17:00h in Events, Upcoming Event by Sophia Gaston Sophia Gaston spoke with Nina Jankowicz and Peter Pomerantsev, two of the leading expert researchers into contemporary disinformation, to explore the role that it is playing in the Coronavirus pandemic. They discussed the differing ways in which disinformation was being harnessed, the challenges of studying a landscape fraught with as much misinformation as disinformation, the next phases of government regulation, and the likely prominence of disinformation in the 2020 US Presidential Election. Nina Jankowicz works at The Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where she studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. Her book, ‘How to Lose the Information War’, will be published in July 2020. Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the a..

For global diplomats, Zoom is not like being in the room

“Operating online is not real diplomacy," one veteran ambassador says. Spare a thought for the world's diplomatic elite: They're prowling around Zoom like caged animals,...

“Veliki brat”: Kako funckioniše praćenje ljudi u doba korone

Australija je posle Kine druga zemlja na svetu koja je u cilju sprečavanja širenja koronavirusa uvela aplikaciju za praćenje kontakata i brzo reagovanje, ako...