Coquille, Oregon, is not the kind of place where emergency operations centers light up in the middle of the night without a very good reason. It is the county seat of Coos County, a rural stretch of the southern Oregon coast known for timber, fishing, and small communities that depend on one another. Charleston, a few miles west, is one of those communities—a working harbor at the mouth of Coos Bay, where commercial fishing boats and charter vessels share the water with pleasure craft, and where the shifting sandbar known as “the bar” can be dangerous even on a calm…

Imagine arriving at a conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, ready to spend days with researchers and activists who track the dark arts of disinformation. You walk past the registration desk, glance at the sponsor board, and notice something odd: several names have been hastily covered with tape or paper. The logos for Canada’s diplomatic service, the European Union’s foreign affairs arm, and Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry are still recognizable enough to identify, but officially they are absent. That was the strange scene that greeted attendees at the annual gathering organized by EU DisinfoLab, a Brussels-based nonprofit dedicated to exposing foreign information manipulation.…