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Opinion: On China, Thai netizens contradict official diplomacy

It was a strange digital flareup. Ceaselessly, and seemingly inexplicably, over an entire night and day, Thai and Chinese netizens took to Twitter to...

‘Coronavirus Diplomacy’ Won’t Change Serbia’s Path

Despite accepting aid from China to fight the coronavirus, the president of Serbia writes that his country is committed to a pro-Western foreign policy. A...

Why government websites fail

While the rest of the world has evolved to a place where we can track anything at all times and order anything from anywhere,...

Nina Jankowicz & Peter Pomerantsev on the Future of Disinformation

04 May Nina Jankowicz & Peter Pomerantsev on the Future of Disinformation Posted at 17:00h in Events, Upcoming Event by Sophia Gaston Sophia Gaston spoke with Nina Jankowicz and Peter Pomerantsev, two of the leading expert researchers into contemporary disinformation, to explore the role that it is playing in the Coronavirus pandemic. They discussed the differing ways in which disinformation was being harnessed, the challenges of studying a landscape fraught with as much misinformation as disinformation, the next phases of government regulation, and the likely prominence of disinformation in the 2020 US Presidential Election. Nina Jankowicz works at The Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where she studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. Her book, ‘How to Lose the Information War’, will be published in July 2020. Ms. Jankowicz has advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the a..

For global diplomats, Zoom is not like being in the room

“Operating online is not real diplomacy," one veteran ambassador says. Spare a thought for the world's diplomatic elite: They're prowling around Zoom like caged animals,...

“Veliki brat”: Kako funckioniše praćenje ljudi u doba korone

Australija je posle Kine druga zemlja na svetu koja je u cilju sprečavanja širenja koronavirusa uvela aplikaciju za praćenje kontakata i brzo reagovanje, ako...

Diplomacy goes virtual as the coronavirus goes viral

The spread of the new coronavirus is testing our globalised world, writes Jovan Kurbalija, executive director of DiploFoundation external linkand head of the Geneva Internet...

“Fighting Like a Lion for Serbia”: An Analysis of Government-Linked Influence Operations in Serbia

On March 26, 2020 Twitter announced a takedown of accounts targeting Ser- bian Twitter users. Twitter reported that this network—consisting of approxi- mately 8,500...

Using Simple Diplomacy Tricks to Better Deal With Stressful Situations

Life can throw unexpected curveballs at us sometimes, and for those of us who are impulsive, it can make handling them a bit harder....

Kao u vreme OZNE: Crnogorska policija prati društvene mreže – uklanja sporne profile i...

Policija pomno prati ko na društvenim mrežama kritikuje državu i njene zvaničnike, a u tom poslu im pomažu i građani, pišu Vijesti. Komentari događaja i...