Defeating Covert Foreign Influence While Protecting Free Expression
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Panelists from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Cyber Command discuss strategies to identify and counter covert foreign political and social influence campaigns while ensuring protection of free expression under U.S. constitutional and international human-rights norms. The session examines legal and policy approaches to balance national-security responses (including cyber and information operations considerations) with safeguards for open exchange of ideas.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:15Overview
- 2:55Threat Brief
- 9:58Policy and Legal Considerations
- 14:38Defeating Covert Foreign Influence Operations while Protecting the Right to Freedom of Expression
- 18:15Public Diplomacy
- 23:16Scenario Two Covert Russian Influence Operations Undermining Us Support for Ukraine
- 26:46Covert Foreign Influence
- 27:51Foreign Agents Registration Act
- 31:42Ukraine's Information Campaign
- 38:16Recap
- 43:47Questions
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