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Information Warfare

Donald Trump and JD Vance argue with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office

Is the US Cutting Ukraine Off? A Live Tracker

Trump has pressed Kyiv hard, and Reuters says the White House ordered the Starshield military satellite service slowed. We built a live tracker to separate what has happened from what is threatened or claimed.

Server racks in a data center (illustrative, not a Yandex facility), with the tracker's LOW rating strip

Motivated Reasoning and Confirmation Bias Drive Viral Claims of “Russian Bot” Declines

A viral chart showed that Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex silenced the company’s search crawler. But many people were ready (and willing) to believe it showed something more.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium, with the tracker's LOW rating strip

Tracking the Irkutsk “Plague“ Report

Reports of a death at a Siberian plague lab set off a global panic. We built a live tracker to separate the evidence from the alarm.

Pages from the Russian Security Council's weekly bulletins fanned on a dark background: the cover masthead with the Council emblem and a glowing world map with Russia highlighted.

What Russia Believes: Weekly Reports Reveal the Kremlin's Distorted Worldview

The Kremlin's internal security bulletins reveal a fight not over territory but a metaphysical contest — one waged, and slowly won, through information warfare the West largely ignores.

Exclusive: Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine

Exclusive: Peter Thiel’s Least Secret Network Is Just One Small Part of a Global Influence Machine

Dialog has been cast as Peter Thiel’s ‘secret society,’ but the invitation-only network is only part of much more significant Thiel-backed power web which draws far less attention.

Podcast: The Power of Predictions with Carissa Véliz

Podcast: The Power of Predictions with Carissa Véliz

Predictions are everywhere these days. Philosopher Carissa Véliz says they're more about power than knowledge.

Steven Bartlett, host of Diary of a CEO, set against a psychedelic background.

The Anatomy of an Influence Operation

The popular podcast Diary of a CEO has become a hit, but most people don't know it is part of a sophisticated influence network.