Data-Driven Insights on Internet Mechanics, Governance & Security
In our 19-November post, we reviewed disinformation signals on the US presidential elections for the 2-week period following voting day (3-November). The signals were sourced from Newly Registered Domains (NRDs) pertaining to election …
Election disinformation, week 3: from vote counting to election nullification arrow_forward
It’s been two weeks since the US federal elections (3-November), and the drama and noise continue. While still too early to have a thorough understanding of the methods and impact of disinformation …
US vs Russian post-election disinformation signals arrow_forward
The protests and reprisals that have been playing out in Belarus since the August 9th presidential election represent another chapter in Active Measures campaigns and election subversion. This post, which builds on …
The question isn’t novel or fanciful. It was the subject of a McAfee blog post in the run-up to the US 2018 midterm elections. And in the DOTGOV Online Trust In Government Act of 2019, …
What if – Government voting sites used ‘.gov’ domain names? arrow_forward
In our April 17 post we reviewed the deluge of Covid-19 newly registered domains (NRDs) and introduced NLP (natural language processing) methods for characterizing domain names based on common words or strings (lexemes). There’s …
Can Pressure on Covid-19 Domain Registrations Reform Internet Governance? arrow_forward