Dear Colleagues, I hope you are keeping well and staying safe through the holidays. I hope you won't mind me sharing my new article which I thought might be of interest, published today in Canada's major national paper the Ottawa Citizen on how democratic governments in the UK, Canada and the Netherlands are adapting to disinformation and information warfare challenges in ways that threaten citizens rights - including recent domestic targeting of citizens and training by an off-shoot of Cambridge Analytica: 'Government Efforts to Counter Propaganda Risk Undermining Public Trust <https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/government-efforts-to-counter-propaganda-risk-undermining-public-trust> ' <https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/government-efforts-to-counter-propaganda-risk-undermining-public-trust> (on Twitter <https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/government-efforts-to-counter-propaganda-risk-undermining-public-trust> here) Please do share if you think it will be of interest to colleagues or students or anyone else. Many thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant