FPRI’s Clint Watts on Russian Information Operations - Scholars in the News - March, 2017.FPRI’s Clint Watts: Senate Testimony (March 30) and Post-Testimony Media Appearances - Scholars in the News - April, 2017.Inside Russia’s Fake News Playbook - The Daily Beast - May, 2017.Putin Lost France, but He’s Still Got a Chance in Germany - The Daily Beast - May, 2017.Donald Trump Just Betrayed America’s Intelligence Community - The Daily Beast - May, 2017.Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online: Working with Tech to Find Solutions - Transcripts and Testimonies - October, 2017.So What Did We Learn? Looking Back on Four Years of Russia’s Cyber-Enabled “Active Measures” - GMF - January, 2018.Terrorism and Social Media: Is Big Tech Doing Enough? - Transcripts and Testimonies - January, 2018.Banning Bots, Punishing Troll Farmers, and Hardening Voting Machines: Here’s How to Stop Russia From Wrecking Election 2018 - Daily Beast - February, 2018.For Russia, Trump Was a Vehicle, Not a Target - The New York Times - April, 2018.Can American democracy survive? - The Washington Post - September, 2018 Artificial intelligence is transforming social media.Five Generations of Online Manipulation: The Evolution of Advanced Persistent Manipulators - E-Notes - March, 2019.America Has A White Nationalist Terrorism Problem.The National Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Manipulated Media, and “Deepfakes” - Transcripts and Testimonies - June, 2019.Ross Perot’s Crab Cakes: One Hour, One Flight, One Legend - E-Notes - July, 2019.Countering Domestic Terrorism: Examining the Evolving Threat - Transcripts and Testimonies - September, 2019.With the Islamic State’s al-Baghdadi Dead, Where does Jihadist Terrorism Go? - Geopoliticus - October, 2019. Presidential Election: More Actors, But Less Effective - Orbis - April, 2021 in Cyberspace, Why is Biden Meeting with Putin at All? - Analysis - June, 2021 Climate Change and National Security - Orbis - April, 2022.Army infantry officer, a FBI Special Agent, as the Executive Officer of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), as a consultant to the FBI’s Counter Terrorism Division (CTD) and National Security Branch (NSB), and as an analyst supporting the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. This research led Clint to testify before four different Senate committees in 2017 and 2018 regarding Russia’s information warfare campaign against the U.S. and the West.Ĭlint’s writing has appeared in a range of publications to include the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Politico, Lawfare, War On The Rocks and the Huffington Post.īefore becoming a consultant, Clint served as a U.S. From 2014 – 2016, Clint worked with a team to track and model the rise of Russian influence operations via social media leading up to the U.S. His research and writing focuses on terrorism, counterterrorism, social media influence and Russian disinformation. Clint’s tracking of terrorist foreign fighters allowed him to predict the rise of the Islamic State over al Qaeda in 2014. Clint Watts is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Non-Resident Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. He is also a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. He recently examined the rise of social media influence by publishing his first book entitled Messing With The Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians and Fake News.
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