National Security, Foreign Influence, and Emerging Technology. Senior Advisor @FDD. Alumnus @ODNIgov @DefenseIntel @NSC44
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The first question policymakers about any #foreigninfluence effort is “Who is behind it?” Adversaries treat hiding their hand as a national pastime.
That question is now before a federal court. 🧵
The brief separates individual donors’ privacy from the public’s interest in knowing which foreign governments, companies, and institutions fund American universities.
The D.C. District Court hears arguments Oct. 21.
Brief and press release: lnkd.in/gVdd9kuD
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In 2024, FDD identified a network of at least 19 fake news websites. @JBreach: Bogus Bylines revived that persona playbook at far greater volume, with AI refining the drafts.
fdd.org/analysis/bogus-bylin…
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Congress should ask ODNI for an assessment of Bogus Bylines, drawing on FMIC’s statutory duty to provide Congress with assessments and warnings of foreign malign influence.
@JBreach explains in his analysis of a series of Iran-based ChatGPT accounts linked to actors posing as Western journalists:
bit.ly/4yPG7jy
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Iran invented fake Western journalists using AI and planted their articles in real outlets. @JBreach joins me on today’s @FDD Morning Brief to break down how Tehran’s propaganda machine works. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YxNrbgVd…
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Bogus Bylines: AI Lets One Iran-Origin Operation Run the Full Influence Playbook
New FDD Policy Brief from @JBreach: bit.ly/4yPG7jy
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Leon Panetta is right.
Establishing and sustaining the policies necessary to secure our country and its interests require Republicans and Democrats to work together and build bipartisan consensus.
Our full discussion here: bit.ly/4B5uXIR
On Foreign Podicy, @FDD_CMPP Advisor Leon Panetta tells @Brad_L_Bowman that dysfunction in our democracy may be the biggest national security threat facing the U.S.
Full episode here: bit.ly/4B5uXIR
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Wikipedia, intended to be the ultimate, neutral, online source of all information, has descended into a place for geopolitical and ideological attacks. When @AshleyRindsberg & I exposed Al Jazeera’s leading editor, read what happened next. bit.ly/473dSlb
An Iran-origin operation has placed nearly 100 articles in online outlets since July 2025 under seven fake Western journalist bylines. Imposing costs, such as sanctions and indictments, requires the U.S. government to identify who ran the operation.
My latest w/ @FDD
Bogus Bylines: AI Lets One Iran-Origin Operation Run the Full Influence Playbook
New FDD Policy Brief from @JBreach: bit.ly/4yPG7jy
AI is making it easier for foreign influence operations to run a wider range of tactics at once.
Yesterday, @OpenAI exposed an Iran-origin operation that shows how. 🧵
Targeted critics: They aimed more than two dozen batches of hostile Persian-language replies at Iran International, a UK-based outlet critical of the regime. In my view, this edges into transnational repression.
And lastly, they hid their tracks: They used VPNs to access ChatGPT and hide their origins.
Here’s the OpenAI report: openai.com/index/disrupting-…
