Russia's Election Interference Is Digital Marketing 101
Last Friday, the Justice Department charged 13 Russians with attempting to subvert the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The case presented by Special Counsel R…
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The surprise Mueller indictment tells us how we’ve been wrong about Russian trolls
The Mueller investigation has just indicted 13 Russian nationals, and three Russian organizations, including the notorious St. Petersburg troll factory, the Int…
Introducing Just Security’s Symposium on United States v. Microsoft
Just Security is pleased to announce the launch of an online symposium on United States v. Microsoft, which will be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court on February…
The United States Can – And Should – Prosecute the Killers of US Journalists and Aid Workers in Syria
Following the rout of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in and around Raqqa, hundreds of ISIL fighters are now in the custody of US-backed opposit…
Our Hackable Political Future
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.…
Trump is a typical conservative. That says a lot about the conservative tradition.
Corey Robin is the author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump.” The New Yorker described the first edition of this book as…
Disinformation Is Becoming Unstoppable
By DIPAYAN GHOSH AND BEN SCOTT Ghosh, a White House technology and economic adviser from 2014–2015 and former privacy policy expert at Facebook, is a Fellow at…
Comments to Article 29 Working Party on Transparency Under the GDPR
These comments address the issue of transparency under the GDPR, as that topic arises in the context of Internet intermediaries and the “Right to Be Forgotten.”…
Guarding against the possible Spectre in every machine
Security vulnerabilities in technology extend well beyond problems with software. Earlier this month, researchers revealed that the hardware at the heart of nea…
Copyright, The First Wave of Internet Censorship
When someone wants to remove speech from the Internet, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice and takedown process can provide the quickest path.…
American Democracy Is an Easy Target
The American foreign-policy community has spent the past year arguing about how to counter Russian influence operations. Newspapers such as the New York Times h…
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love Big Brother, who lives, if he lives at all, on a cluster of server farms, cooled by envir…