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Cybersecurity
News
For election hackers, a new and more dangerous tool
November 2018
"The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the United States and Europe are now global.
FSI scholars join high-level commission on democracy in the digital age
October 2018
The Kofi Annan Foundation has tapped four Stanford scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) to help advance one of its top priorities: to shed light on the rapidly...
Protecting democracy from online disinformation requires better algorithms, not censorship
August 2017
*/ "New laws in democratic countries that force social media platforms to remove disinformation will encourage autocratic countries to do the same, with devastating effects on human rights," writes...
Events
Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East
May 3, 2021
REGISTER Panel 1: Digital Activism Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | 9-10:30 am PT Opening Remarks: Marc Lynch, Eileen Donahoe, and Larry Diamond Moderator: Hesham Sallam Wafa Ben-Hassine: “The Hyper-Aware...
The Cyber Security Threat: Lessons Learned from Devastating Attacks in Ukraine and the US
March 14, 2019
Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of cyber attacks originating in Russia that target the United States, European Union and EU member-states.
Digital Technology and Democracy: Launch of the Global Digital Policy Incubator
September 26, 2017
Michael McFaul, Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor Political Scienceand FSI Senior Fellow, Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover...
Multimedia
How will Michael Flynn's resignation affect US-Russia relations?
February 2017
Russia expert and Stanford University senior fellow Kathryn Stoner on Russian reaction to the national security adviser's resignation. Watch the video here.
People
Nathaniel Persily Co-director, Cyber Policy Center, Senior Fellow Professor, Law, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science, Professor, by courtesy, Communication