![]() ![]() Equally important, the methods that Washington previously devised for debunking Soviet disinformation about race relations and pandemics are still applicable today. Although the technology that Russia is deploying today to spread disinformation is new, its strategy is the same as that of its predecessor, the Soviet Union. government, delegitimize its institutions, disorient and polarize American society, and cast doubt on the true account of events in order to undermine the country’s effective functioning as a democracy. The Kremlin’s aim was to discredit the U.S. race relations and disseminating disinformation about pandemics were major methods of Soviet disinformation during the later stages of the Cold War. national security, and, crucially, Washington’s own past experience with countering it.Įxploiting U.S. government has seemingly forgotten that history: the threat that Kremlin disinformation previously posed to U.S. At the start of the 21st century, the U.S. 2 Russian and Chinese information warfare attacks on the United States about race and COVID-19 may appear new, but in fact they have a long history. government’s responsibility for the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, China has borrowed Russia’s disinformation playbook to disseminate conspiracies alleging the U.S. 1 Race again became a target of Russian disinformation when protests against police violence erupted across the United States in May 2020. Trump and undermining his opponent, Hillary Clinton. presidential election, with the aim of assisting Donald J. Race was the principal target of Russian disinformation during the 2016 U.S. race relations, and second, it has been used to allege U.S. There have been two prominent targets of such attacks: First, disinformation has been used to exploit domestic U.S. Since 2016, hostile foreign states have been using weaponized information to attack the United States. Establishing a coherent strategy is important because disinformation will be a major theme of 21st-century international security, as societies and governments become increasingly interconnected. strategy for countering hostile state disinformation: through promoting digital literacy, which requires a whole-of-society, generational effort. By applying that history, this paper recommends developing a new U.S. government devised during the Cold War to counter Soviet disinformation are still relevant, even in today’s information landscape. Using an applied history methodology and a wealth of previously classified archival records, this paper uses two case studies to reveal how and why a hostile foreign state, the Soviet Union, targeted America with similar disinformation in the past. national security, may seem new, but they are not. These information warfare attacks, which threaten U.S. ![]() race relations and COVID-19 to undermine and discredit the U.S. Russia and China are disseminating disinformation about domestic U.S. ![]() Russia & FSU Cold War History | Disinformation September 22, 2022Ĭalder Walton Hostile foreign states are using weaponized information to attack the United States. ![]()
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