On October 28, Forward Defense non-resident senior fellow Max Brooks was mentioned in a Forbes article on Real Fake, an online graphic novel commissioned by the US Cyber Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) to combat election disinformation. Brooks is an advisory board member of Erly Stage Studios, the London-based educational ventures and digital publishing company that produced Real Fake.

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