About us

The DISARM Foundation works to maintain, enhance, promote and support the DISARM Framework – open-source and community-led.

the role of the foundation

What we do

Maintain and enhance

The Framework Governance Board will be pivotal to keeping the Framework 'open' and held in common by DISARM's user community.
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Users might take copies (or ‘forks’) of the Framework. With these, they can amend or add to the code, in order to better address their own specific challenges.

We encourage users to share their work, so that the community — through the Board — can agree which enhancements are added back into the ‘master’ version, for the benefit of all. And we will continue to make the Framework ever more accessible and easy to use.

Promote and support

The Foundation is here to enable and empower organizations and networks of organizations.  We aim to play our part in encouraging a stronger ‘network of networks’ that is capable of fast and effective responses to influence operations.
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It is through and with this network of networks that we will seek to promote the Framework and establish the means supporting its use.



Frequently asked questions about DISARM.

Funding and partnership

We are immensely grateful to the many who have played a part in bringing the DISARM Framework and DISARM Foundation to life:  Alliance4Europe, Alfred Landecker Foundation, Credibility Coalition, CogSec Collaborative, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Florida International University, The MITRE Corporation and Public Democracy.
About our Partners and our collaboration

who are we

Our team

Victoria Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Victoria is an experienced analyst and researcher, and has previously worked for the BBC, the UK public sector and as a non-Resident Senior Research Analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations. Her recent work has focussed on the challenges faced by the community countering influence operations, and developing guidance on how to study, report on and attribute influence operations. In 2022, Victoria founded DisinfoDocket - a newsletter curating influence-operation related news, academic research, events and jobs.

Stephen Campbell

Chief Technology Officer

Stephen H. Campbell specializes in researching and defending against asymmetric cyber, cognitive, and physical threats. As founder of Non-State Threat Intelligence, advisor to Eosedge Legal, and lead social media threat hunter for Sports-ISAO, he encourages clients to take an intelligence-led approach toward assessing and mitigating the risk of cyberattacks, digital manipulation, and violent extremism. Stephen has a combined 40 years’ experience in the fields of information technology and international security studies, as a programmer, analyst, product manager, trainer, researcher, curriculum developer, and virtual CISO. He is the inventor of the patented CyberGaps® methodology for identifying, prioritizing and remediating gaps in an organization’s cyber defenses.

Carl Miller

Chief Strategist

Carl Miller is a technologist, journalist and writer. He is the founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos and the information integrity lab CASM Technology. He’s a Visiting Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe. He is the author of the The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab which won the Transmission Prize, and is the co-writer and host of the podcast Kill List, which reached #1 in seven countries, was named the Guardian’s best podcast of 2024 and is nominated for Podcast of the Year 2025 by the Broadcast Press Guild Awards.

Jon Brewer

Chief Operating Officer

Jon has wide experience across the UK public sector, NGOs, social enterprises and B2B tech start-ups and larger scale commercial enterprises. He has led sales, marketing, partnership, channel and fundraising teams, as well as projects to improve corporate systems and processes. He has co-founded charities, helping nonprofits improve their effectiveness through technology. Way back at the start, Jon’s MA Marketing dissertation centered on ‘Public Purpose Marketing’ and cross-sector collaboration, and he has extended this theme throughout his working life – including previously as Development Director at the Global Cyber Alliance, and now with the DISARM Foundation.

Adam

Product Developer

Adam is a real human person who doesn't like it when people try to manipulate others. During COVID lockdowns, Adam combined their background in Psychology and experience in the Cyber Threat Intelligence industry to analyze and archive techniques used in influence operations, with the goal of helping people better understand how they were being manipulated online. Adam prioritizes clarity, authenticity and accessibility in their work, and likes to help protect people from online harms in whatever way possible.