Welcome to the Active Measures Podcast with Dustin Mascorro! Thanks for joining me in this discussion about trends in online influence and how that spills out into the real world.
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.