When Donald Trump assumed office in 2025, his administration launched an aggressive crusade to dismantle the federal government’s counter-disinformation infrastructure, framing such operations as existential threats to the First Amendment. Trump’s official rhetoric focused on “ending federal censorship,” leading to the rapid closure of specialized task forces within the FBI, CISA, and the Global Engagement Center. By painting researchers and intelligence officials as partisan actors undermining conservative viewpoints, the administration effectively justified the systematic removal of guardrails intended to protect the American public from foreign disinformation campaigns. This performative push for “transparency” served as the strategic cover for an overhaul…

The recent, large-scale Russian aerial assault on Kyiv on the night of June 15 has left not only deep physical scars on the city but has also ignited a secondary, digital battlefront. As the smoke cleared from the wreckage of civilian homes and cultural landmarks, the Kremlin’s propaganda machine immediately shifted into gear, working tirelessly to rewrite the narrative of the night’s carnage. According to the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), this is a calculated, repetitive strategy: whenever Russia strikes innocent lives or protected heritage sites, they scramble to frame the violence as a precision hit on “legitimate targets,” or,…