May 01 2025 Microphone Chekist 1-2 what is this

Unexpected start to the week -- I stepped in last-minute to open the first panel at the OffshoreAlert conference in Miami, to a room of 300 lawyers and investigators.

With a day to prepare, I gave a quick tour through the evolution of disinformation, tracing lineage from Soviet-era tactics to today's complex campaigns, setting the context for my fellow panelists Courtney Adante and Nicholas Brechbill to discuss case examples and mitigation strategies to potential reputational harm.

Thanks to Courtney and Nick for the fantastic discussion, OffshoreAlert founder David Marchant for hosting such an insightful event, and Joan Donovan and the Critical Internet Studies Institute for being tapped in to such diverse yet overlapping spaces.