🍾 nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/…

The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-… via Foreign Affairs

Interested in learning more about the impacts of surveillance technology? Check out DemocracyResourceCtr's curated list on the topic featuring work from Forum @ NED, Journal of Democracy, and CIMA, and view highlighted resources below🧵: buff.ly/3RBtJPQ

The Tyranny of Expectations foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/tyrann… via Foreign Affairs

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/03/us/…

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that my new book with the brilliant Saskia Brechenmacher is officially available from Oxford University Press!

Read more below 🧵

New piece Carnegie Endowment: why has Russia been so resilient to export controls?

We lay out 3 factors:

👉 Reliance on consumer-grade components for its weapons
👉 Successful exploitation of globalized supply chains
👉 Shifting geopolitics

Take a look 🔽

carnegieendowment.org/2024/03/11/why…

Poor, poor Vladimir Putin. Until now, nobody in the West has had the chance to hear him explain all the excellent reasons for why he had to invade Ukraine. Not in the speech that was broadcast live on every global network the morning of the invasion, and not in countless others.

Many journalists have interviewed Putin, who also makes frequent, widely covered speeches. Carlson's interview is different because he is not a journalist, he's a propagandist, with a history of helping autocrats conceal corruption. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

UK, France pitch rules to curb spyware abuse – POLITICO politico.eu/article/uk-fra…

China on cusp of next-generation chip production despite US curbs ft.com/content/b5e0db… via @ft

Thanks, Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) WIRED for writing about this unacceptable use of lawfare to attempt to chill credible journalism, and highlighting my reply... 👇

NEW: more #Pegasus spyware abuse discovered 👇

35 media workers and several human rights lawyers and activists confirmed infected or targeted in 🇯🇴 Jordan.

Access Now Human Rights Watch Amnesty Tech Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Citizen Lab collaboration ⬇️

How can democracies fight disinformation?

For insights, take a look at a new Carnegie Endowment report by researchers Jon Bateman & Dean Jackson

👇

carnegieendowment.org/2024/01/31/cou…

How can democracies fight disinformation?

Many think it’s the most urgent question of our time. Others say it’s poorly framed or misguided. Clearly, a serious problem exists—but we struggle to define, measure, or solve it.

That’s why Dean Jackson and I wrote this new report: 🧵

Back in DK after a highly engaging workshop on connectivity, innovation and war - big thanks to Dr Matthew Ford & Steven Feldstein.

And apologies to the rest of the USA for bringing the Scandinavian weather with us.

More details about an 🇮🇳 tech mogul employing a prominent libel-law outfit to erase Reuters Raphael Satter Chris Bing story on the Indian hack-for-hire industry from the web...

...and why I'm not cooperating with those threats

politi.co/3SmrtNR / POLITICO Michael Schaffer