“DEFENDING TRUTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE.” BRIEFING, ASTANA, MAY 2024
PBS NEWSHOUR, OCTOBER 2023
“DISINFORMATION, GLOBAL AFFAIRS, AND YOU.” ALBRECHT FELLOWSHIPS, BALTIMORE, MARCH 2026
“WHY YOUR INFLUENCE OPERATION IS PROBABLY A BAD IDEA.” CYBERWARCON, NOVEMBER 2023
“WHY YOUR INFLUENCE OPERATION IS PROBABLY A BAD IDEA.” DOD INFORMATION CONFERENCE, MARCH 2024
“POISONING FAST AND SLOW.” CYBERWARCON, NOVEMBER 2025
Speaking & Media
Keynotes, parliamentary testimony, war-college lectures, newsroom briefings. This page is the working record: what I speak about, whom I speak to, and what reporters call me for.
A few themes recur. How states weaponize social media, and why most influence operations fail anyway. How wars are fought partly in public now, by soldiers with phones and bystanders with cameras. What AI does to propaganda once persuasion gets cheap. And how democracies can defend their elections without breaking the openness they are defending. I have made these arguments to NATO officers, Turkmen students, Pentagon conference rooms, and the occasional parliamentary committee.
RECORD NOTE — 80 DOCUMENTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS SINCE 2016. THE MEDIA INDEX HOLDS 139 SELECTED RECORDS DRAWN FROM 2,702 TRACKED MENTIONS. UPDATED JULY 2026.
FEATURED
| PANEL | Automation in Communications | RIGA STRATCOM DIALOGUE 2026, NATO STRATCOM COE 4 JUN 2026 |
| PANEL | Deconstructing the Israel-Hamas Disinformation War | ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB (external) 16 NOV 2023 |
| KEYNOTE | The Weaponization of Social Media | EU DISINFOLAB 2023 11 OCT 2023 |
| TALK | Misinformation: The New Public Health Crisis | TEDXNYU (external) 6 APR 2019 |
| TALK | LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media | CSIS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM (external) 5 OCT 2018 |
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| PANEL | Automation in Communications | RIGA STRATCOM DIALOGUE 2026, NATO STRATCOM COE 4 JUN 2026 |
| TALK | Disinformation, Global Affairs, and You | ALBRECHT FELLOWSHIPS, WORLD TRADE CENTER INSTITUTE 14 MAR 2026 |
| TESTIMONY | Foreign Interference and the 2025 Canadian Federal Election | STANDING COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE AND HOUSE AFFAIRS, CANADIAN PARLIAMENT 27 NOV 2025 |
| TALK | Poisoning Fast and Slow: Differentiating LLM Compromise as a Vector for Influence Operations | CYBERWARCON 2025 19 NOV 2025 |
| LECTURE | Information Operations and Crowds | GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY (SCHAR SCHOOL) 24 SEP 2025 |
| TALK | Disinformation as a Weapon | OMIDYAR NETWORK 11 SEP 2025 |
| PANEL | Should We Attribute Less? Foreign Interference Claims and the 2024 US Election | CYBERWARCON 2024 22 NOV 2024 |
| TALK | Understanding and Countering Russian Malign Influence | 'CASE' (HOST ORGANIZATION UNCLEAR) 24 OCT 2024 |
| TALK | Information Manipulation in the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis | EU DISINFOLAB 2024 10 OCT 2024 |
| LECTURE | Social Media and the Power of Narratives | AUSTRALIAN COMMAND AND STAFF COURSE (AUSTRALIAN WAR COLLEGE) 7 AUG 2024 |
| LECTURE | War, Attention, and You | CANADA AND THE WORLD CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA 21 JUN 2024 |
| PANEL | Another Battlefield: How Telegram Emerged as a Digital Front in Russia's War Against Ukraine | RIGA STRATCOM DIALOGUE 2024, NATO STRATCOM COE 6 JUN 2024 |
| LECTURE | Defending Truth in the Digital Age | KAZAKHSTAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT 31 MAY 2024 |
| TALK | Future of Technology: Radical Transformation or Harmonious Development | QAZAQ FORUM, IN COORDINATION WITH U.S. EMBASSY KAZAKHSTAN 30 MAY 2024 |
| PANEL | Make Your Voice Heard | NEXT MILAN FORUM 2024 (ISPI, BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, OECD) 19 MAR 2024 |
| TALK | Why Your Influence Operation Is Probably a Bad Idea | DOD INFORMATION CONFERENCE 13 MAR 2024 |
| TALK | Impacts of Malign Influence Campaigns on Democratic Institutions | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FORUM, ATLANTIC COUNCIL (external) 6 MAR 2024 |
| TALK | U.S. ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (USASOC) 2 FEB 2024 | |
| KEYNOTE | EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE (EEAS) 22 JAN 2024 | |
| PANEL | Deconstructing the Israel-Hamas Disinformation War | ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB (external) 16 NOV 2023 |
| TALK | TEMPLE ISAIAH 10 NOV 2023 | |
| TALK | Why Your Influence Operation Is Probably a Bad Idea | CYBERWARCON 2023 9 NOV 2023 |
| TALK | Defending Truth in the Digital Age | MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF TURKMENISTAN, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH U.S. EMBASSY ASHGABAT 16 OCT 2023 |
| LECTURE | Student lecture, Institute of International Relations | MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF TURKMENISTAN, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH U.S. EMBASSY ASHGABAT 16 OCT 2023 |
| KEYNOTE | The Weaponization of Social Media | EU DISINFOLAB 2023 11 OCT 2023 |
| PANEL | WONKCOMMS BREAKFAST CLUB DC 2 AUG 2023 | |
| LECTURE | GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (GWU) 19 APR 2023 | |
| TALK | Weaponization of Social Media | PHOENIX STRIPE COURSE, AIR MOBILITY COMMAND, SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE 8 FEB 2023 |
| KEYNOTE | U.S. AIR FORCE SENIOR ENLISTED LEADER INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 3 AUG 2022 | |
| KEYNOTE | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK (DCN) BULGARIA 27 JUL 2022 | |
| TALK | Flashpoints Forum | ERGO (GEOPOLITICAL INTELLIGENCE FIRM) 26 JUL 2022 |
| PANEL | Another Open Source Record of War | 360/OS: CONTESTED REALITIES | CONNECTED FUTURES, ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB 6 JUN 2022 |
| PANEL | Wartime Content Moderation and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB 18 MAY 2022 |
| LECTURE | Lessons Learned in Characterizing and Attributing Influence Operations | CENTER FOR INFORMED DEMOCRACY & SOCIAL-CYBERSECURITY (IDEAS), CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (external) 25 APR 2022 |
| TALK | Information Warfare in the Conflict in Ukraine | COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (ROUNDTABLE SERIES ON DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION) 25 MAR 2022 |
| LECTURE | SCIENCES PO 10 FEB 2022 | |
| TALK | DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA) 11 JAN 2022 | |
| TALK | SWEDISH CIVIL CONTINGENCIES AGENCY (MSB) 5 NOV 2021 | |
| LECTURE | GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP) 15 SEP 2021 | |
| TALK | Foreign Interference Allegations in the 2020 US Election | 360/OS SUMMIT, ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB 24 JUN 2021 |
| TALK | Disinformation: Targets, Purposes, and What Can Be Done | CSIS PROJECT ON NUCLEAR ISSUES (PONI) WORKSHOP 19 MAY 2021 |
| PANEL | Unmasking Influence Operators: What Are Best Practices for Attribution? | CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE 25 MAR 2021 |
| LECTURE | JOHNS HOPKINS SAIS 10 MAR 2021 | |
| TALK | The Election Integrity Partnership | UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) 10 MAR 2021 |
| TESTIMONY | Foreign Interference and the 2020 U.S. Election | SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INTERFERENCE, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 12 NOV 2020 |
| TALK | Student Conference on U.S. Affairs | U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY 21 OCT 2020 |
| LECTURE | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE 14 OCT 2020 | |
| LECTURE | Foreign Interference, Disinformation, and the U.S. Election | MERSHON CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 1 OCT 2020 |
| PANEL | 2020 Election Integrity and Foreign Interference | ATLANTIC COUNCIL DFRLAB 29 SEP 2020 |
| PANEL | Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | STANFORD INTERNET OBSERVATORY / FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE (ELECTION INTEGRITY PARTNERSHIP) 12 AUG 2020 |
| TALK | COSMOS CLUB 14 JUL 2020 | |
| TALK | INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP (ICG) 17 JUN 2020 | |
| TALK | DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (DIA) 7 MAY 2020 | |
| LECTURE | MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 9 APR 2020 | |
| TALK | GOOGLE (TALKS AT GOOGLE SERIES) 18 FEB 2020 | |
| TALK | MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE (MEI) 10 FEB 2020 | |
| TALK | BABEL STREET 11 DEC 2019 | |
| TALK | The Future of Political Warfare Conference | POLITICAL WARFARE CONFERENCE (ORGANIZER UNCLEAR) 18 OCT 2019 |
| LECTURE | AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 15 OCT 2019 | |
| LECTURE | JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (SAIS) 7 OCT 2019 | |
| TALK | COSMOS CLUB 26 SEP 2019 | |
| TALK | COSMOS CLUB 16 SEP 2019 | |
| TALK | JIGSAW (GOOGLE) 4 SEP 2019 | |
| TALK | SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, PUBLIC AFFAIRS (PENTAGON) 15 AUG 2019 | |
| TALK | HACKS/HACKERS LONDON 19 JUN 2019 | |
| LECTURE | U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE 10 JUN 2019 | |
| KEYNOTE | EU DISINFOLAB 27 MAY 2019 | |
| TALK | Misinformation: The New Public Health Crisis | TEDXNYU (external) 6 APR 2019 |
| KEYNOTE | CANADIAN JOINT OPERATIONS COMMAND / DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE 2 APR 2019 | |
| TALK | U.S. ARMY, FORT BELVOIR 13 MAR 2019 | |
| TALK | The Weaponization of Social Media | GLOBAL SOF FOUNDATION 6 MAR 2019 |
| LECTURE | COLORADO COLLEGE 6 FEB 2019 | |
| TALK | FACEBOOK 23 JAN 2019 | |
| LECTURE | VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY 22 JAN 2019 | |
| TALK | LikeWar Analytic Exchange | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE 30 NOV 2018 |
| LECTURE | VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY 24 OCT 2018 | |
| TALK | LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media | CSIS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM (external) 5 OCT 2018 |
| PANEL | LikeWar (DC Launch): The Weaponization of Social Media | NEW AMERICA (CYBERSECURITY INITIATIVE) 4 OCT 2018 |
| TALK | LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media | POLITICS AND PROSE BOOKSTORE (AT THE WHARF) 2018 |
| TALK | The Social Network War: Assessing the Role of Networked Communication in Contemporary Conflict | INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, 57TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 16 MAR 2016 |
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