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News - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Russiagate: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask

| May 04, 2017

The Belfer Center's incoming senior fellows, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers, provided their insights into Russia's influence over the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Belfer Center Director Graham Allison moderated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, foreground right, attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

(Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Analysis & Opinions - The Wall Street Journal

America Is Ill-Prepared to Counter Russia’s Information Warfare

| Mar. 27, 2017

Propaganda is perhaps the second- or third-oldest profession. Using information as a tool to affect outcomes is as old as politics. What’s new today is the reach of social media, the anonymity of the internet, and the speed with which falsehoods and fabrications can propagate.