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Dec 2, 2021

The Online Extremist Ecosystem: Its Evolution and a Framework for Separating Extreme from Mainstream

The authors describe white supremacists' and other extremists' use of the internet and introduce a framework for internet users to categorize virtual platforms and understand their potential to encounter extreme content online.
Research

May 14, 2021

Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Open Source Assessments of North Korea's Ballistic Missile Capabilities

This report examines Chinese assessments of North Korean ballistic missile capabilities between 1998 and 2017. Chinese analyses mirror Western conclusions that North Korea has a functional ICBM that can reach the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.
Commentary

Apr 12, 2021

The Intelligence Community's Deadly Bias Toward Classified Sources

Even when relevant data is publicly available, U.S. intelligence analysts are not including it in their analytic products during their routine course of business. This willful ignorance of publicly available information is hurting U.S. national security.
Commentary

Mar 4, 2021

An Early Policy Victory for DNI Haines: Boost the Priority of Open Sources Information

The quantity, quality, and accessibility of publicly available information has exploded over the past decades. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has an opportunity to advance intelligence community mission activities on several key issues shaped by the digital information age, including the role of publicly available information.
Research

Feb 26, 2021

Explaining Variation in the Growth and Decline of Detention Facilities Across Xinjiang

This report, the final in our series, explores trends in the growth and decline of nighttime lighting over detention facilities across Xinjiang.
Research

Feb 26, 2021

Investigating the Growth of Detention Facilities in Xinjiang Using Nighttime Lighting

This first report introduces our methodological approach and uses nighttime lighting data to investigate the rapid, coordinated growth of detention facilities in Xinjiang over the last decade.
Research

Feb 26, 2021

Have Any of Xinjiang's Detention Facilities Closed?

This report, the second in a three-part series, employs a novel empirical approach to systematically assess the current operating status of known detention facilities in Xinjiang using nighttime lighting.
Research

May 13, 2019

Strategic Surveillance for Food Safety: Designing a surveillance approach and considerations for implementation

The Food Standards Agency engaged RAND Europe to design an approach to strategic surveillance for the UK food system. The study team produced an end-to-end approach, identified implementation steps and considered their impact and feasibility.
Research

Oct 2, 2018

Adaptation by Intelligent Adversaries to Defensive Measures: Framing Adaptation Options and Demonstrating Assessment of Attacker Preferences Using Proxy Intelligence Data

Addressing adaptation by adversaries and its implications for security planning requires understanding the ways attackers can respond to new defensive measures. This paper demonstrates an analysis of such preferences using open source data.
Research

May 17, 2018

Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise

This report describes the evolution of open source intelligence, defines open source information and the intelligence cycle, and parallels with other intelligence disciplines, along with methods used and challenges of using off-the-shelf technology.
Commentary

Oct 31, 2012

The Insight of Twitter

Exploring how people use social media has provided useful insight into public opinion. This insight may be particularly valuable in countries where freedom of expression may be limited, for whom social media may serve as an important outlet, writes Douglas Yeung.
Research Summary

Oct 4, 2012

Can Social Media Help Analyze Public Opinion? A Case Study of Iranian Public Opinion After the 2009 Election

Describes a methodology for analyzing public opinion and mood in closed societies, focusing on a case study that analyzed Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following Iran's 2009 presidential election.

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The Online Extremist Ecosystem: Its Evolution and a Framework for Separating Extreme from Mainstream

Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Open Source Assessments of North Korea's Ballistic Missile Capabilities

The Intelligence Community's Deadly Bias Toward Classified Sources

An Early Policy Victory for DNI Haines: Boost the Priority of Open Sources Information

Explaining Variation in the Growth and Decline of Detention Facilities Across Xinjiang

Investigating the Growth of Detention Facilities in Xinjiang Using Nighttime Lighting

Have Any of Xinjiang's Detention Facilities Closed?

Strategic Surveillance for Food Safety: Designing a surveillance approach and considerations for implementation

Adaptation by Intelligent Adversaries to Defensive Measures: Framing Adaptation Options and Demonstrating Assessment of Attacker Preferences Using Proxy Intelligence Data

Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise

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Can Social Media Help Analyze Public Opinion? A Case Study of Iranian Public Opinion After the 2009 Election

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The Online Extremist Ecosystem: Its Evolution and a Framework for Separating Extreme from Mainstream

Through the Looking Glass: Chinese Open Source Assessments of North Korea's Ballistic Missile Capabilities

The Intelligence Community's Deadly Bias Toward Classified Sources

An Early Policy Victory for DNI Haines: Boost the Priority of Open Sources Information

Explaining Variation in the Growth and Decline of Detention Facilities Across Xinjiang

Investigating the Growth of Detention Facilities in Xinjiang Using Nighttime Lighting

Have Any of Xinjiang's Detention Facilities Closed?

Strategic Surveillance for Food Safety: Designing a surveillance approach and considerations for implementation

Adaptation by Intelligent Adversaries to Defensive Measures: Framing Adaptation Options and Demonstrating Assessment of Attacker Preferences Using Proxy Intelligence Data

Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise

The Insight of Twitter

Can Social Media Help Analyze Public Opinion? A Case Study of Iranian Public Opinion After the 2009 Election

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