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Program 8 of 8 in our Seeking Truth Through Facts U.S.-China Program Series

Dr. Brian McQuinn is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina and co-founder of the Digital Traces of Conflict Project (tracesofconflict.ca). McQuinn co-edited The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath (Oxford University Press). He has two decades of experience as a researcher and humanitarian worker in a dozen conflicts. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford after completing ethnographic fieldwork with insurgents in the 2011 uprising in Libya. His research was published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and in various peer-reviewed journals, in...

Published 12 April 2021 The Islamic State is often credited with pioneering the use of social media in conflict, having created a global brand that drew between 20,000 and 40,000 volunteers from at least 85 countries. Social media served as a key recruiting tool, source of fundraising, and platform for disseminating graphic propaganda to a global audience. Laura Courchesne and Brian McQuinn write that the Islamic State perfected tactics and strategies already widely used by hundreds of other armed groups. The Islamic State is often credited with pioneering the use of social media in confli...

January 29, 2021 Concerns over social media’s potential to disrupt democratic societies have existed at least since the emergence of the so-called Islamic State in the first half of the 2010s. The outcome of the UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016 and evidence of Russian influence operations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election only made such concerns more salient. Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations.More > Between the rampant spread of misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic and the failed U.S. Capitol insurrection by supporters o...