Active Measures with Dustin Mascorro

Gerasimov gets one more shot.Links: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375 https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Russian%20Operations%20Assessments%20January%2011%202023.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasimov_doctrine#/media/File:Guerra_hibridad.jpg

Twitter bows to pressure from the Global Engagement Center & a host of agencies violate the Constitution. China gives Russia a propaganda wish list. Happy New Year!Links: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394197730725889https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/gec/index.htmhttps://www.dailywire.com/news/hacked-material-shows-russias-propaganda-agreement-with-china-report

Today we take a look at everyone being in on it from the beginning. Links: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/ https://nypost.com/2022/12/21/fbi-blasts-conspiracy-theorists-over-twitter-files-claims-to-provide-critical-information-to-protect-company/

The Los Alamos National Laboratory & Department of Energy are getting in the combatting misinformation game.Links: https://www.dailywire.com/news/atomic-bomb-lab-studying-ways-to-combat-misinformation-including-covid-lab-leak-theory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8048710/

Today we're talking about the Georgia Senate runoff and Twitters internal struggle to tell the truth.Links:https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-17/https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia/2022/12/07/county-by-county-results-in-georgias-senate-runoff/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/12/07/raphael-warnocks-feat-and-his-future-00072698https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_General_Assembly

Forbes has a breakdown of TikTok's political manipulation efforts for China & the National Science Foundation awards $5 million to develop approved responses on social media.Links: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/11/30/tiktok-chinese-state-media-divisive-politics/https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-pay-journalism-group-5m-to-create-software-to-turn-people-into-anti-misinformation-bots

Today let's take a look at the Pentagon's latest assessment on China. It's a hefty document so check it out for yourself.Links: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/29/2003122279/-1/-1/1/2022-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA.PDF

Welcome back! Today we talk about the U.K.'s Centre for Information Resilience and its latest hire: Nina Jankowicz.Links: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-houses-former-disinformation-czar-nina-jankowicz-registers-foreign-agenthttps://www.info-res.org/post/announcing-the-hypatia-project-combating-gendered-abuse-and-disinformationhttps://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12675400/filing-history

Long time no see! Let's take a look at this DHS effort to suppress speech while playing whack-a-mole with disinformation. Highly recommend clicking through the links in the source for more context and DHS reviews & emails with social media officials.Source: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

Part 2: Let's talk about the Chinese Communist Party in our elections and how the U.S. government is suppressing your speech.Support the Show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcasthttps://kanekoa.substack.com/p/konnech-ceo-eugene-yus-connectionhttps://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election#article

Part 1 of 2: Propaganda from the Ukraine war and Russia's recruiting issues.Support the Show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcasthttps://twitter.com/CITeam_ru/status/1577660739908689931

Let's talk about a green group's China ties, it's influence in our politics, and the recent Italian elections.Support Active Measures: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks:https://www.foxnews.com/politics/green-group-influencing-biden-admin-deep-ties-chinese-governmenthttps://www.opensecrets.org/https://www.biggreenradicals.com/group/natural-resources-defense-council/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/09/27/what-meloni-means-for-america-00058973

Happy Friday. Today we talk about the GOP cutting funding for a candidate in Ohio and new EU sanctions on Russia.Support Active Measures: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks:https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/22/house-gop-cuts-loose-candidate-who-misled-about-military-service-00058406https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-kick-off-new-sanctions-process/https://www.baltictimes.com/baltic_assembly_denounces_plans_to_hold_illegal_referenda_in_occupied_ukrainian_territories/

Today we talk about Free Speech v Big Tech, WaPo, a psychological operations review from Stanford, and some style tips.Support: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks:https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fed-court-rules-no-freewheeling-first-amendment-right-to-censor-for-big-techhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_stanford_internet_observatory_report_unheard_voice.pdf

Today we talk about the midterms, Bolduc v Hassan in New Hampshire, Biden's statements about defending Taiwan and the White House response, and a little disinformation and Ukraine war talk.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcast

Today we talk about some political developments, these NAFO dorks, and if they're going to start the next nuclear war.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks: https://mwi.usma.edu/on-trolls-and-nuclear-signaling-strategic-stability-in-the-age-of-memes/

Today we talk about a Russian influence report from Reuters, the EU's new visa rules, and the Baltics banning Russians from visiting.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-russia-spent-over-300-million-foreign-influence-efforts-since-2014-2022-09-13/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-governmenthttps://www.baltictimes.com/eu_suspension_of_easy_access_visa_agreement_for_russians_takes_effect/https://www.baltictimes.com/baltic_countries__poland_to_close_borders_to_russian_citizens_by_september_19/

Today we talk about Congress coming back to work, the Midterms, DHS' latest shenanigans, and I ask the audience about this ATF brace ban.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/upshot/polling-midterms-warning.htmlhttps://www.axios.com/2022/09/12/dhs-chief-domestic-extremism-threat-evolved-since-9-11

Today we talk about the First Amendment, Hispanic voters going Republican, and what's in store after the election.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks: https://twitter.com/WPAIntel/status/1567659601679585282https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22275721-discovery-order

Talking about the FBI, information manipulation, and who's nuke secrets Trump took home.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks:https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/09/07/legal-world-fires-at-judge-cannon-00055134https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/kevin-mccarthy-republicans-commitment-america-agenda

We talk about the official start of election season and what NATO's been up to in Bulgaria.Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcastLinks: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/09/06/welcome-to-the-general-election-00054874

Today we're talking about the President's speech, psychographics, and politics.POTUS Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JemWkV2VcicSupport the show: https://account.venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcast

We take a look at an election security product from West Virginia's Secretary of State.Link to presentation: https://sos.wv.gov/elections/Documents/ForeignInfluenceUSElections.pdfSupport the Show: https://account.venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcast

What constitutes a state action in suppression of speech?Articles: https://www.leagle.com/decision/20071072481f3d59111067Support the show: https://venmo.com/u/activemeasurespodcast

Good news, the Disinformation Governance Board is no more! Bad news, DHS already has internal capabilities to achieve DGB's mandate.

Student loan forgiveness, Primary night in America.Articles:https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/biden-student-loan-plan-risks

Today we're talking about polling, Trump, and faith in institutions. Check out the audio version on iTunes, Spotify, Podcast Addict! Articles:https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reinhart-formally-rejects-doj-argument-to-keep-trump-affidavit-sealed-calls-raid-unprecedentedhttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22156173-220455-nbc-news-august-poll-82122-release

Welcome to the first episode! Thanks for joining me in this discussion about some recent trends in online influence and how that spills out into the real world.