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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast
Episode: Lawfare Daily: Making Sense of the Doppelganger Disinformation Operation, with Thomas Rid
Description: In early September, the U.S. Justice Department released a trove of information about the Russian influence campaign known as âDoppelgangerââa Kremlin-backed effort that created faux versions of familiar news websites and seeding them with fake material. Just a few weeks later, the German publication SĂźddeutsche Zeitung reported that it had received a tranche of hacked materials from inside the Doppelganger operation. Thomas Rid, a professor at Johns Hopkins Universityâs School of Advanced International Studies and the founding director of the schoolâs Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, got an inside look at those documents. In...