Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post
FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post

FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post

FPRI’s Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post


The Washington Post

“They want to essentially erode faith in the U.S. government or U.S. government interests,” said Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who along with two other researchers has tracked Russian propaganda since 2014. “This was their standard mode during the Cold War. The problem is that this was hard to do before social media.”

Watts’s report on this work, with colleagues Andrew Weisburd and J.M. Berger, appeared on the national security online magazine War on the Rocks this month under the headline “Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy.” Another group, called PropOrNot, a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds, planned to release its own findings Friday showing the startling reach and effectiveness of Russian propaganda campaigns. (Update: The report came out on Saturday).

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