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With less than two weeks before the election, the U.S. intelligence community is warning that Russia, Iran and China will intensify their efforts to divide Americans and undermine confidence in the election. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Graham Brookie, The Atlantic Council's vice president for technology programs and strategy and the founding director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

With less than two weeks before the election, the U.S. intelligence community is warning that Russia, Iran and China will intensify their efforts to divide Americans and undermine confidence in the election. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Graham Brookie, The Atlantic Council's vice president for technology programs and strategy and the founding director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, social media platforms lit up with conspiracies. Speculation about whether it was all a political ploy. Or an inside job. But it wasn't just happening in the U.S. Emerson Brooking has been tracking Russian propaganda all week as the director of strategy at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. On POLITICO Tech, he joins host Steven Overly to talk about how the Kremlin spun the shooting and what that could mean for Russia's disinformation playbook between now and Election Day.

Zpráva z Kyjeva o útoku na ukrajinská města 8. července, kdy rakety zasáhly i zdravotnickou infrastrukturu, včetně největší ukrajinské dětské nemocnice, byla šokující, ale nikoli překvapivá. Ruské útoky na nemocnice nejsou neúmyslné. Jsou součástí strategie, kterou Moskva zavedla už dříve, konstatuje politolog Ruslan Trad z Digital Forensic Research Lab institutu Atlantic Council se sídlem v Bulharsku v analýze pro ruský opoziční server Moscow Times.

Zpráva z Kyjeva o útoku na ukrajinská města 8. července, kdy rakety zasáhly i zdravotnickou infrastrukturu, včetně největší ukrajinské dětské nemocnice, byla šokující, ale nikoli překvapivá. Ruské útoky na nemocnice nejsou neúmyslné. Jsou součástí strategie, kterou Moskva zavedla už dříve, konstatuje politolog Ruslan Trad z Digital Forensic Research Lab institutu Atlantic Council se sídlem v Bulharsku v analýze pro ruský opoziční server Moscow Times.Všechny díly podcastu Svět ve 20 minutách můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

In this episode, we explore a topic that sits at the heart of global digital policy: the contrasting visions of internet governance championed by the United States and its Western allies versus those promoted by China and nations in its orbit. This debate is playing out across various international venues and has profound implications for the future of digital rights, privacy, and the open internet. Justin Hendrix is joined by experts at the Atlantic Council that study these issues from a variety of angles and across multiple geographies, including:Rose Jackson, the director of the Democracy + Tech Initiative within the Atlantic Council Technology Programs;Konstantinos Komaitis, a nonresident fellow with the Democracy + Tech Initiative of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab;Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab; andIria Puyosa, a senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Jean le Roux, Research Associate for the Sub-Saharan Africa region at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, shared ideas and hacks for protecting your banking account from hackers, as well as how to safeguard your banking app.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In examining international competition between the U.S. and rivals like China, we tend to think of two types of power—military and economic. How large and advanced is our military compared to others? Are we overly reliant on other countries for resources like oil and microchips? But there's a third, less commonly thought of type of power that is crucial to America's role in the world order. We might call it our reputation or our cultural dominance. The Chinese government calls it “discourse power.” In China's view, America has come to dominate the international system in part by controlling the narrative around governance, norms, and values. For China to gain control in the international order, then, it's not enough for their economy or military to grow to either match or surpass ours. They have to secure discourse power—one that favors Chinese Communist Party values and their approach to security and human rights. In particular, they see the digital realm as an opportunity to tilt the balance in China's favor. So what does this look like in practice?Evan is joined by Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident China fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, where she leads China-related research and engagements. See her paper on discourse power and her new article in Foreign Affairs on whether China can swing Taiwan's election.

Your posts matter more than you think. Social media has changed the way wars are fought and the internet has become a new battlefield. Twitter may be dying, but it still matters an awful lot to policy makers. TikTok is ascendent, but often because its content can be repurposed on other platforms. Telegram can give you the news on the ground, but only if you trust the sources.With all this information flowing and everyone motivated by personal politics, who can you trust?This week, Emerson T. Brooking joins Matthew and Emily to explain how online discussion shapes the reality on the ground in conflict zones. Brooking is a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council and the co-author of LikeWar, a book about the weaponization of social media. Cyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your posts matter more than you think. Social media has changed the way wars are fought and the internet has become a new battlefield. Twitter may be dying, but it still matters an awful lot to policy makers. TikTok is ascendent, but often because its content can be repurposed on other platforms. Telegram can give you the news on the ground, but only if you trust the sources.With all this information flowing and everyone motivated by personal politics, who can you trust?This week, Emerson T. Brooking joins Matthew and Emily to explain how online discussion shapes the reality on the ground in conflict zones. Brooking is a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council and the co-author of LikeWar, a book about the weaponization of social media. Cyber Live is coming to YouTube. Subscribe here to be notified.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back after a week off! At the beginning of this month, I was freaking out that scheduling guests was going slower than expected. However, in the last ten days, I've recorded six episodes (including this one) and one more to come. In the hopper includes conversations on India, the European Union, Africa, the United Kingdom, the history of tech policies on elections, and jawboning.This week, I first welcome Dina Sadek from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, where she has been leading the monitoring of how the conflict in Israel is showing up online.Then, I welcome Carlos Cortez and Alejandro Moreno from Linterna Verde - an organization that analyzes how public opinion is built in networks and digital spaces.Our talk covers all things elections in Latin America, including Argentina's election this year, the constitutional referendum in Chile, and Mexico's election next year.Some links to their work that we cover:* Circuito: An effort by them to gather information and analyze the intersection between social networks and democracy in Latin America.* Here is an article on how they see recent changes to the region's content policies.* And here is another one on election misinformation last year in Colombia.* They have their own Substack, Botando Corriente, that you can subscribe to:  * We also discussed this paper, “Mercenarios Digitales,” by CLIP: https://www.elclip.org/mercenarios-digitales/If you are looking for some other good sources of information on what is happening in the region, I recommend:* Latin America Risk Report* The Brazilian Report (From whom I stole the title of this episode)* Road to the Casa Rosada (This is all about the Argentina elections)Please support the curation and analysis I'm doing with this podcast. As a paid subscriber, you make it possible for me to bring you in-depth analyses of the most pressing issues in tech and politics. Get full access to Anchor Change with Katie Harbath at anchorchange.substack.com/subscribe

In the last year, the ADL and GLAAD tracked at least 356 incidents of anti-LGBTQ+ hate and extremism in the U.S. This marks an alarming rise over the past two years of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and violence. 49% of all incidents were perpetrated by individuals associated with extremist groups. This seems to point toward a much larger recent focus on the LGBTQ+ community by far-right extremists.Lawfare Intern Gia Kokotakis sat down with Meghan Conroy, a Research Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab who leads its domestic extremism research portfolio, and Jon Lewis, a Research Fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism. Both Jon and Meghan have done significant research on far-right extremist groups and ideologies, as well as their intersections with anti-LGBTQ+ violence. They discussed the role far-right extremist groups previously played in anti-LGBTQ+ violence, what may have caused a spike in violence against the queer community, and how the extremist groups committing these acts of violence differ from our traditional conception of the far right.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Disinformation is not new, but it has certainly evolved. Today, it is strongly linked to international security, as malign actors seize on it to pursue their own strategic interests. Are democracies equipped to navigate this new landscape of political warfare? Host Alanna Putze is joined by Monika Richter of the American Foreign Policy Council and Graham Brookie of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab to explore the multifaceted scope of today's disinformation challenge, and why tackling it is vital for democratic security.

Two years after the January 6th attack, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers – two of the groups that stormed the Capitol and tried to overturn an election – are on a mission. This time, their goal is more subtle but just as sinister. Although individual Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are on trial for conspiracy and a heap of other crimes, the federal government has been slow to call the groups extremists. In courtrooms, on Twitter, and in media reports the groups are trying to clean up their image, and people are buying it. Today we're going to explore how the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers use propaganda – calling themselves a “drinking club,” “patriots,” and “constitutionalists” – to control their own narrative and hide their violent, extremist views. Calling out these lies, and understanding how they work, is key to holding the groups accountable for the January 6th attack and exposing their continued messages of hate. Joining us are Meghan Conroy and Jon Lewis. Meghan is a Fellow with the Digital Forensic Research Lab and a former Investigator with the January 6th Committee, where she focused on the role of social media in the Capitol attack. Jon is a Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, where he studies domestic and homegrown extremism. They wrote a recent Just Security piece analyzing the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers propaganda efforts and why they've been successful so far.  Show Notes:  Meghan Conroy (@meghaneconroy)Jon Lewis (@Jon_Lewis27)Meghan and Jon's Just Security article on the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers' propaganda efforts 24:25 Mary McCord's Q&A “What Everyone Needs to Know About Prosecuting Domestic Terrorism” 29:10 Brian Hughes and Cynthia Miller Idriss' Lawfare article on the evolving landscape of domestic extremism and “mobilizing concepts”30:05 NYU's American Journalism Online ProgramMusic: “The Parade” by “Hey Pluto!” from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/hey-pluto/the-parade (License code: 36B6ODD7Y6ODZ3BX)Music: “Desert Soul” by Tobias Voight from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/tobias-voigt/desert-soul (License code: RWJXGHZMZEKXIDGT)

This week marks a year since Russia began its devastating invasion of Ukraine, and throughout that time, technology has shaped the conflict, from satellites beaming internet service from space to the mobile phones in people’s pockets. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino recently spoke to Roman Osadchuk, a research associate at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, who is also based in Ukraine, about how mobile apps have become an essential lifeline there as citizens navigate the daily realities of war.

This week marks a year since Russia began its devastating invasion of Ukraine, and throughout that time, technology has shaped the conflict, from satellites beaming internet service from space to the mobile phones in people’s pockets. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino recently spoke to Roman Osadchuk, a research associate at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, who is also based in Ukraine, about how mobile apps have become an essential lifeline there as citizens navigate the daily realities of war.

On this episode of Virtual Sentiments, Kristen interviews Emerson T. Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, on the presence of disinformation in social media. Brooking gives his definition of disinformation and highlights particular aspects of social media that frequently interact with the rapid expansion of disinformation. The two also discuss the incentives behind disinformation and how the expansion of one's audience can play into the propagation of disinformation. Brooking goes on to share his views on why disinformation is not a problem to be solved but rather a feature of communications technology to be considered when making decisions. Additionally, Brooking shares how his upbringing in rural Georgia shaped his views of communications technology and gave him insight into the role of local journalism in fostering trust among individuals. To learn more about the topics discussed in today's conversation, consider reading Emerson Brooking's book: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media.Read more work from Emerson Brooking.Read more work from Kristen Collins.If you like the show, please leave a 5-star review for us on Apple Podcasts and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever else you get your podcasts.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatus

In this episode of 92NY Talks we ask the question, Do We Need A Constitution for the Metaverse? The Metaverse is a brave, new virtual frontier that will play an increasingly important role in our lives. But what rights will we have as individuals and communities in a world likely to be built by corporations? Even if the Metaverse is years away, critical decisions are being made now about how the future is being built. If we want to make sure we all have a voice, should we start thinking about a Constitution for the Metaverse? Join Philip Rosedale, web pioneer and creator of virtual world Second Life, Dave Waslen, Co-Founder of Metaverse platform Wilder World, and Gayatri Khandhadai, Digital and Human Rights and Policy Expert, in conversation with Brittan Heller, Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an in-depth discussion on safeguarding global democracy in this emerging digital environment. Introductory remarks by Jamie Metzl, Founder and Chair, OneShared.World. The conversation was streamed live as part of the The 92nd Street Y, New York online talks series on September 15, 2022.

The 18-year-old man accused of the racist rampage at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, Saturday followed a pattern becoming disturbing familiar for such attacks: online radicalization. The suspect allegedly wrote and posted a 180-page document before the mass shooting, citing various racist and anti-Semitic memes and conspiracy theories from websites such as 4chan. Federal officials are paying attention to this growing threat. President Joe Biden’s latest budget allocates $33 million for the FBI to investigate domestic terrorism. Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, spoke with Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams about how the Justice Department has shifted efforts to address online extremism in the United States. He noted that it still has progress to make. Your donation powers the journalism you rely on. Give today to support “Marketplace Tech.”

A shooter, radicalized online, plotted a racist attack with plenty of digital fingerprints, intended to livestream it on social media and published a manifesto online. It happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. And it seems to have happened again last week in Buffalo. In the years in between, we've heard plenty about social media companies amping up their content moderation efforts and clamping down on violent extremism. Yet nothing — or not enough — has really changed.In this conversation, Kara Swisher dissects the internet's role in the Buffalo attack with Wesley Lowery, a journalist who covers race and justice, and Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. The three discuss how extremism spreads online, the role that Fox News and Tucker Carlson play and what platforms like 4chan, Facebook and Twitch could have done differently.They also examine the free speech argument made by many conservatives and Elon Musk and consider how a Texas law — which allows individuals to sue platforms if they feel their posts have been censored — may give social media platforms cover to do even less. Lowery points out there are many options between being a “hyper-free-speech absolutist” and “censorship.” Ultimately, as he puts it, these platforms need to ask themselves, “If I'm hosting the block party, do I let the Nazi keep showing up and ranting?”This episode contains strong language.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

The 18-year-old man accused of the racist rampage at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, Saturday followed a pattern becoming disturbing familiar for such attacks: online radicalization. The suspect allegedly wrote and posted a 180-page document before the mass shooting, citing various racist and anti-Semitic memes and conspiracy theories from websites such as 4chan. Federal officials are paying attention to this growing threat. President Joe Biden’s latest budget allocates $33 million for the FBI to investigate domestic terrorism. Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, spoke with Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams about how the Justice Department has shifted efforts to address online extremism in the United States. He noted that it still has progress to make. Your donation powers the journalism you rely on. Give today to support “Marketplace Tech.”

A shooter, radicalized online, plotted a racist attack with plenty of digital fingerprints, intended to livestream it on social media and published a manifesto online. It happened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. And it seems to have happened again last week in Buffalo. In the years in between, we've heard plenty about social media companies amping up their content moderation efforts and clamping down on violent extremism. Yet nothing — or not enough — has really changed.In this conversation, Kara Swisher dissects the internet's role in the Buffalo attack with Wesley Lowery, a journalist who covers race and justice, and Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. The three discuss how extremism spreads online, the role that Fox News and Tucker Carlson play and what platforms like 4chan, Facebook and Twitch could have done differently.They also examine the free speech argument made by many conservatives and Elon Musk and consider how a Texas law — which allows individuals to sue platforms if they feel their posts have been censored — may give social media platforms cover to do even less. Lowery points out there are many options between being a “hyper-free-speech absolutist” and “censorship.” Ultimately, as he puts it, these platforms need to ask themselves, “If I'm hosting the block party, do I let the Nazi keep showing up and ranting?”This episode contains strong language.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

A major part of Russia’s war strategy is the control of messages spread online, both in occupied areas of Ukraine and within Russia itself. Platforms like Facebook have been banned and labeled “extremist” by Russian authorities. Some sites, like YouTube, remain partially available. At the same time, the Kremlin is trying to push Russian users to a domestic video platform, “RuTube.” It’s part of a strategy to convince citizens and content creators to abandon Western social media sites. Although RuTube and YouTube were developed around the same time, the Russian video service hasn’t had YouTube's success. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Emerson Brooking, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

A major part of Russia’s war strategy is the control of messages spread online, both in occupied areas of Ukraine and within Russia itself. Platforms like Facebook have been banned and labeled “extremist” by Russian authorities. Some sites, like YouTube, remain partially available. At the same time, the Kremlin is trying to push Russian users to a domestic video platform, “RuTube.” It’s part of a strategy to convince citizens and content creators to abandon Western social media sites. Although RuTube and YouTube were developed around the same time, the Russian video service hasn’t had YouTube's success. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams speaks with Emerson Brooking, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Disinformation warfare is not new to the Baltic States - and they have been boosting their preparedness since 2014 and were lauded as successful. Then why did countering COVID-19 disinformation prove challenging? In December, Daiva and Eva spoke to Nika Aleksejeva, who is a data journalism trainer and lead researcher for the Baltics at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. “COVID-19 disinformation is a very good lesson for us to be less naive about our capabilities,” she says. You can read more about Latvia's disinformation actors here. You can also read our Re:Baltica article about the superspreaders of vaccine disinformation in the Baltics here. Daiva recently wrote a story about how the war in Ukraine effects people in Lithuania - you can read it here. Please subscribe to our newsletter, and this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Transcripts are at www.theinoculation.com ​​After the investigation is complete, you will be able to find the code we used for the analysis of the European Parliament's data on our GitHub repository. The production of this investigation is supported by a grant from the IJ4EU fund. The International Press Institute (IPI), the European Journalism Centre (EJC) and any other partners in the IJ4EU fund are not responsible for the content published and any use made out of it. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation.

This is the first part of our four-episode series where we take a look at America's policy challenges for the next decade. In this episode, hosted by the Concordia Forum at the Atlantic Council headquarters in Washington D.C., Muddassar Ahmed is joined by a panel of experts to explore online censorship, hate speech, and the challenges to freedom of expression. Our panellists include Alex Johnson (the Deputy Director of U.S. Foreign Policy and Programs at the Open Society Foundations), Graham Brookie (the Senior Director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council), Keith Ellison (the current 30th Attorney General of Minnesota and the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Congress), as well as George Selim (the Senior Vice President for National Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League). This discussion is led by Katherine Brown, President and CEO of Global Ties U.S., the largest and oldest citizen diplomacy network in the United States. The episode was done in partnership with the Atlantic Council, international affairs think tank galvanizing U.S. leadership and engagement in the world.

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, governments' and private companies' moves to limit or ban Russian state media have rapidly spread from the European Union, to the United States, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. The cascade of developments harkens back to the World War II period, when governments regarded German propaganda as a weapon of war and used tools such as short wave radio to reach citizens behind enemy lines to penetrate the Axis power's internal information environment. (The BBC, as if to underscore this point, announced Thursday it would resurrect the use of shortwave radio to broadcast news into Ukraine and parts of Russia). In order to put these new developments in historical context, we hear from two experts on the role of information and media in war:  Heidi Tworek, a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia and author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945, a book that details how the Nazis used news and information to advance their agenda; and Emerson Brooking, Resident Senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council and author of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, which considers how social media is changing the nature of war and conflict.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine involves an online fight between truth and disinformation. We discuss how to spot lies and propaganda, with Svitlana Matviyenko, an assistant professor of critical media analysis at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication; Jane Lytvynenko, a journalist and senior research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University; and Lukas Andriukaitis, associate director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab in Belgium.

Guests include: Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (beginning at the 3:28 mark); Graham Brookie, senior director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (at 12:48); And Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg, senior research scientist at CNA (at 19:03). A transcript will be available here.

Canada's trucker's and the ‘Freedom Convoy' protests have inspired similar protests around the world, from France to New Zealand to Australia. But it's especially drawing the adoration of Conservative commentators in the United States -- like Fox News' Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. The ‘anti-mandate' and ‘anti-lockdown' movement has also become the obsession of the darker, more alt-right corners of the internet. Today on Front Burner, a conversation with CBC's Washington correspondent Alex Panetta on how the trucker protest is playing out in the U.S. media, and Jared Holt, a domestic extremism researcher at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, on how it's manifesting in right-wing online spaces.

Co-hosts Andy Levy and Molly Jong-Fast parse out whether Jim Jordan is telling the truth about his Jan. 6 knowledge, Jared Holt, a fellow at AtlanticCouncil's Digital Forensic Research Lab, explains two big tactics far-right kingpins like Steve Bannon are using to take over democracy and Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin of Check My Ads join the pod to explain how to play a role in bankrupting people like Charlie Kirk, Dan Bongino and other notorious disinfo machines.If you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast's membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O'Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes its just discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you'll support The Beast's fearless journalism. Plus! You'll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's been one year since the armed insurrection at the Capitol, what do we know now about how it happened? On this week's On the Media, hear about the signs that reveal militia groups were preparing for that day — or something like it — long before January 6th. Plus, how the attack may have transformed the far-right in America.  1. OTM reporter Micah Loewinger [@MicahLoewinger] on the efforts to shape the media narrative among gun rights activists at Virginia's Lobby Day. Listen. 2. OTM reporter Micah Loewinger [@MicahLoewinger] and Militia Watch founder Hampton Stall [@HamptonStall] investigate how a walkie-talkie app called Zello is enabling armed white supremacist groups to gather and recruit. Featuring: Joan Donovan [@BostonJoan] Research Director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, and Megan Squire [@MeganSquire0] Professor of Computer Science at Elon University. Listen. 3. OTM reporter Micah Loewinger [@MicahLoewinger] on Zello's role in the January 6th insurrection, and what the app is finally doing about its militia members. Featuring: Marcy Wheeler [@emptywheel] national security reporter for Emptywheel, and Cynthia Miller-Idriss [@milleridriss] Director of Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University, and Jared Holt [@JaredHolt] Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Listen. Music: Tick Of The Clock by ChromaticsCyclic Bit by Raymond ScottGenocide by Link WrayProcession Of The Grand Moghul by Korla Pandit Gormenghast by John Zorn

A live audience interviews Jared Holt of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab on extremism, radicalization, January 6th, and more—including comments and questions from podcaster Eric Weinstein. Find more (including how to join us live) at PM101.live

Opportunistic politicians and businesspeople latched onto the pandemic in their quest for fame. In Latvia, where COVID-19 death counts went through the roof in October, this had dire consequences. In this episode, Daiva and Eva speak to Nika Aleksejeva, who is a data journalism trainer and lead researcher for the Baltics at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. She says, “COVID-19 disinformation is a very good lesson for us to be less naive about our capabilities.”   You can read more about Latvia's emergency situation here, and about the disinformation dozen here. This is the story of Latvian lab disinformation. You can also read our Re:Baltica article about the superspreaders of vaccine disinformation in the Baltics here. You can read about the Baltic elves here, here, and here.   Our reporting is supported by IJ4EU. Please subscribe to our newsletter, and this show on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Google Podcasts, Spotify or another platform of your choice. Follow us on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, and on Instagram as @the_inoculation

更多通勤學英語Podcast單元: 每日英語跟讀Podcast，就在http://www.15mins.today/daily-shadowing 精選詞彙 VOCAB Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/vocab 語音直播 15mins Live Podcast, 就在https://www.15mins.today/15mins-live-podcast 文法練習 In-TENSE Podcast，就在https://www.15mins.today/in-tense 歡迎到官網用email訂閱我們節目更新通知。   老師互動信箱: ask15mins@gmail.com 商業合作洽詢: 15minstoday@gmail.com   每日英語跟讀 Ep.K196: Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming   In May, several French and German social media influencers received a strange proposal. 幾個法國和德國的社群網紅，5月時收到一份怪異的提案。 A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document detailed what to say and on which platforms to say it. 一家位於倫敦的公關公司想付費給他們，為一名客戶推廣訊息。字句精練的三頁文件詳細交代要說什麼，以及在哪個平台上說。 But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a London address where there is no evidence any such company exists. 但是它要求網紅推銷的不是典型的美容產品或套裝旅遊，而是抹黑輝瑞BNT新冠疫苗的不實訊息。更怪的是，這家名叫Fazze的公司雖宣稱有倫敦地址，當地卻沒這家公司存在的證據。 The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security analysts and U.S. officials say is exploding in scale: disinformation for hire. 這個計畫看起來像是安全專家和美國官員所說，正在大規模擴張的祕密產業一部分：雇傭傳播假訊息。 Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once conducted principally by intelligence agencies. 私人公司跨越傳統行銷和地緣政治影響力行動的陰暗世界，正販售過去主要由情報機構執行的服務。 “Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, calling it “a boom industry.” 大西洋理事會「數位鑑識研究實驗室」主任葛拉罕．布魯奇說，「受政府或政府相關單位雇用傳播假訊息的人，正不斷增加且日趨嚴重」，這是個「繁榮產業」。 For-hire disinformation, though only sometimes effective, is growing more sophisticated as practitioners iterate and learn. Experts say it is becoming more common in every part of the world, outpacing operations conducted directly by governments. 受雇傳播假訊息固然僅偶爾有效，但在執行者反覆學習之下變得更精妙。專家說，這項產業變得在世界每個角落更普遍，勝過政府直接進行的任務。 The trend emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, experts say. Cambridge, a political consulting firm linked to members of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was found to have harvested data on millions of Facebook users. 專家說，這個趨勢在2018年的劍橋分析醜聞後興起。這家政治顧問公司和川普2016年總統大選競選活動的成員有關聯，被發現收集數百萬名臉書用戶數據。 Cambridge used its data to target hyperspecific audiences with tailored messages. It tested what resonated by tracking likes and shares. 劍橋分析利用數據，以量身訂做的訊息來針對極端特定受眾，它利用追蹤「讚」和「分享」測試哪些訊息獲得反應。 The episode taught a generation of consultants and opportunists that there was big money in social media marketing for political causes, all disguised as organic activity. 這起事件讓同一世代的顧問和機會主義者學到，出於政治因素、偽裝成自然活動的社群媒體行銷大有錢景。 Some newcomers eventually reached the same conclusion as Russian operatives had in 2016: Disinformation performs especially well on social platforms. 一些新進者最終也獲得和俄羅斯人員在2016年得到的相同結論：假訊息在社群平台上表現得特別好。 At the same time, backlash to Russia's influence-peddling appeared to have left governments wary of being caught — while also demonstrating the power of such operations. 同時，對俄國操弄影響力的反彈，顯然讓政府在展示這類行動的力量時，也擔憂會被抓個正著。 “There is, unfortunately, a huge market demand for disinformation,” Brookie said, “and a lot of places across the ecosystem that are more than willing to fill that demand.” 「不幸的是，對於假訊息有巨大的市場需求。」布魯奇說，「而這個生態系的許多地方非常樂於滿足這項需求。」Source article: https://udn.com/news/story/6904/5656426  

This week, we have two segments. The first is a conversation with Emerson T. Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, about the fall of Kabul and the rise of the Taliban, and the role that digital and social media have and will continue to play there. And second, we turn to a discussion I had with Emerson's Atlantic Council college, Rose Jackson, and the Institute for Security Technology's Vera Zakem, about the nascent pro-democracy effort around tech issues and tech policy around the world, and the challenges it faces. First, to Afghanistan, where the fall of the Taliban was broadcast around the world by Taliban fighters themselves, sharing photos and selfies as they walked in to official residences and government offices, announcing their victory in the war in Afghanistan. To talk more about the role of social media in their return to power and what to expect in the future, we spoke with DFRLab's Emerson T. Brooking. Emerson is the coauthor of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, and is an expert in the fields of disinformation, terrorist communication, and internet policy, and recently led an initiative to secure the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election. I caught up with on Thursday of this week. Second, on to a conversation hosted before Afghanistan took over the headlines, about the future of democracy and its relationship with technology. My two guests are experts on these subjects. Rose Jackson is an entrepreneur and former diplomat with 15+ years of experience strengthening democracy and defending human rights, leveraging technology for social impact, and building institutions to support democratic activists around the world. Jackson is currently the director of the Democracy & Tech Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. She previously founded and served as CEO of Beacon, a platform leveraging data and marketing technology to make it easier for people to take meaningful civic and political action. Prior to founding her company, Jackson served as a senior policy adviser at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where she led a presidential transition initiative focused on reforming U.S. support to foreign military and police. During the Obama Administration, Jackson served as the Chief of Staff to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the State Department, and before that as an advisor to Senator Chris Coons on foreign policy and national security issues as a Galloway Fellow. Vera Zakem is currently a Senior Technology and Policy Advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology and a founder of a mission-driven agency, Zakem Global Strategies. Previously, she led strategy and research at Twitter. She has also worked for a number of national security policy and research organizations, including the CNA Corporation, where she spearheaded initiatives to understand and develop policies to counter disinformation and global malign influence. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tech Advisory Council for Atlas Corps. 

Jared Holt of The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and host of the SH!TPOST podcast joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss how QAnon is changing and transforming. We discuss how the slogans and hashtags may be disappearing from mainstream social media, but that doesn't mean it's going away, debunk those calling QAnon "dead," look at how QAnon is flourishing in many ways, the neonazi rhetoric spreading from one of QAnon's biggest influencers: GhostEzra, and how, in fact, QAnon could could very well be evolving into something worse. Jared and Matt also look at the new right wing claim that the FBI was involved in the storming of the Capitol on January 6 and the conservative freak out over Juneteenth. Also on the patron half of the show: Project Veritas latest lame "exposé," serious nonpartisan journalist Tim Pool hires nationalist Cassandra Fairbanks, tons of listeners' calls, questions, comments, and more! Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Graham Brookie is the director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. He spoke with Garrett Graff, the director for cyber initiatives for the Aspen Digital program on how tech innovation and disinformation are affecting the global stage. This session is part of a video series of expert briefings on mis and disinformation hosted by the Aspen Institute in tandem with our Commission on Information Disorder to help make sense of the various facets of the information crisis called Disinfo Discussions. They are designed as a resource for the commissioners and the broader public. To learn more about Aspen Digital's Commission on Information Disorder, visit www.AspenInfoCommission.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook @AspenDigital.

There are many myths and much disinformation circulating online, including those related to the pandemic. Fox News host Tucker Carlson made headlines on Monday for his anti-mask stance that included false claims. To explain how and why similar falsehoods spread, Amna Nawaz is joined by Graham Brookie, the director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In this My Money, My Lifestyle podcast we delve into the world of crypto scams which seem to be mushrooming everywhere despite repeated warnings from our authorities. How do these scams work? How do people get lured into parting with their hard-earned cash? And is this the work of an organized criminal syndicate?We talk to scam victim Tshepiso about how the fraudsters convinced her to part with nearly R100 000. Jean le Roux, research associate for the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab explains how social media networks are used to lure potential victims and Marius Reitz, Luno's GM for Africa explains what victims can do if they are caught in a scam.The aim of this podcast is to give you a real insight into how these scams work so you are not fooled by them, you don't believe the fake testimonies and pictures you see on social media and please share this podcast with those who you believe are vulnerable. The only way we are going to stop them is to stop giving them our money.

This week's episode features a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab titled Reclaiming Reality: De-radicalization and Rehabilitation After the January 6 Attack that includes https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/people/fellows/amarnath-amarasingam (Amarnath Amarasingam), an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at Queen's University, https://datasociety.net/people/lopez-g-cristina/ (Cristina López G), a Senior Research Analyst with Data and Society, QAnon Anonymous co-host https://twitter.com/travis_view (Travis View), and the DFRLab's Research Fellow, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/jared-holt/ (Jared Holt). We also hear related Congressional testimony from Emily Bell, Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, at a House subcommittee hearing titled "Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media."

Jared Holt of The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and host of the SH!TPOST podcast joins DOOMED with Matt Binder for a very special CROSSOVER episode discussing the second Trump impeachment trial...where the Senate just voted to acquit the former President mere hours ago. Matt and Jared discuss January 6, details of the trial, how Democrats mucked it up, how Republicans let Trump get away, and much more. Plus, listener calls, questions, and comments! Then on the patron half of DOOMED: more calls, questions, and comments + Matt discusses the latest gossip about the QAnon Congresswomen (is Rep. Lauren Boebert really the daughter of a pro wrestling legend?!). Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

It's the Inauguration episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder! Jared Holt, host of the SH!TPOST podcast and researcher at the Digital Forensic Research Lab joins the show to discuss Joe Biden's inauguration, The Storm never coming for QAnon, how the right is handling Trump going off into the sunset (for now), and much more! Also on the patron half of the show: tons of listener calls, your questions, comments, and more! (From the 1/20/21 livestream) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

In the wake of last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Proud Boys — a group founded by Canadian Gavin McInnes — has been under intense pressure. The FBI is arresting some of its members. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has called for the them to be designated a terrorist group, and the federal government is considering it. Today, how the Proud Boys started, and where they ended up, with Jared Holt — a visiting researcher at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab who studies domestic extremism

Apesar dos esforços da Justiça Eleitoral para coibir o uso das redes sociais de maneira coordenada e automatizada com fins eleitorais, serviços de compra e venda de engajamento seguem ativos na internet. O Globo mapeou a existência de pelo menos dez serviços desse tipo voltados para o público brasileiro, com pacotes que incluem a compra de cliques, seguidores e visualizações em dez redes sociais, incluindo Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube e até o Tik Tok. A reportagem testou, na prática, de que maneira os serviços funcionam e seu potencial para influenciar o debate público. Durante dez dias, um perfil de um candidato a vereador imaginário foi turbinado com dezenas de retuítes, executados por usuários no exterior. Qual o resultado dessa experiência de compra de engajamento? Como funciona esse serviço? De que forma as redes sociais atuam para coibir esses perfis? Qual o impacto dessa estratégia sobre o eleitor? No Ao Ponto desta segunda-feira conversamos com o repórter João Paulo Saconi e com a pesquisadora Luiza Bandeira, do Digital Forensic Research Lab, um centro de pesquisa ligado ao Atlantic Council, organização que realiza análise independente de dados.

Cindy L. Otis is a former CIA officer and an expert on disinformation threat analysis and countermessaging. She is also a Senior non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and an Associate at Argonne National Lab. Prior to joining the private sector in 2017, she served in the CIA as a military analyst, intelligence briefer, and a manager in the Directorate of Intelligence. While at the CIA, she specialized in security issues in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.  She is the author of the newly released True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Identifying and Fighting Fake News out now with Macmillan. She is a frequent media commentator work and writes regularly on disinformation and national security issues. Her written work has appeared in places like USA Today, CNN, The Daily Beast, Barron’s, Teen Vogue, Just Security, and the New York Times. She is also a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors. As a wheelchair user and passionate advocate of disability rights, she has also worked as a consultant to major disability rights organizations. She was born on the West Coast and raised on the East Coast, so Cindy is happiest when near a large body of water. She spends more time than she would like maintaining the tenuous peace that exists between her dogs and cats. Cindy's links Web: https://cindyotis.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CindyOtis_   And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing.   New Livestream https://youtube.com/erichunley    Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp  Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp  Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp    Join the Facebook group: fb.com/groups/unstructured 

As former U.S. Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel says during this special podcast, when he interviewed Putin several years ago, the Russian president cited the collapse of the USSR as the greatest tragedy of the past century. And, as Richard notes, Putin has been on the attack against what he perceives as those that brought Russia down ever since. This led to his support for Donald Trump in 2016 and once again, it leads him to support Trump again in 2020. And Trump is returning the favor, making it harder for Congress and the American people to know what Russia is up to, harder to defend against them and even spreading disinformation to minimize the Russian threat. We discuss the latest developments in this, one of the great stories of our time, with Stengel, a former managing editor of Time Magazine, Natasha Bertrand of Politico and Graham Brookie, Director and Managing Editor of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Join co-hosts Ryan Goodman of Just Security and NYU Law School and David Rothkopf of the DSR Network, for this important, insight-rich episode.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As former U.S. Under Secretary of State Richard Stengel says during this special podcast, when he interviewed Putin several years ago, the Russian president cited the collapse of the USSR as the greatest tragedy of the past century. And, as Richard notes, Putin has been on the attack against what he perceives as those that brought Russia down ever since. This led to his support for Donald Trump in 2016 and once again, it leads him to support Trump again in 2020. And Trump is returning the favor, making it harder for Congress and the American people to know what Russia is up to, harder to defend against them and even spreading disinformation to minimize the Russian threat. We discuss the latest developments in this, one of the great stories of our time, with Stengel, a former managing editor of Time Magazine, Natasha Bertrand of Politico and Graham Brookie, Director and Managing Editor of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Join co-hosts Ryan Goodman of Just Security and NYU Law School and David Rothkopf of the DSR Network, for this important, insight-rich episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Save Meduza!https://support.meduza.io/enOn today's show, host Kevin Rothrock speaks to online-disinformation investigation pioneer Ben Nimmo about his latest research into a sweeping Russian disinformation campaign called “Secondary Infektion.” Mr. Nimmo is the founder of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and last year he became the head of investigations for the social-media monitoring company “Graphika.” This week, Graphika released a new report about a long-running Russian information operation that is allegedly responsible for forgeries, election interference, and attacks on Kremlin critics across six years and 300 different websites and online platforms. “The Naked Pravda” comes out on Fridays (or sometimes Saturdays). Catch every new episode by subscribing at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or other platforms. If you have a question or comment about the show, please write to Kevin Rothrock at kevin@meduza.io with the subject line: “The Naked Pravda.”

In this latest episode of “The Convergence,” we talk with Cindy Otis, a disinformation expert specializing in election security, digital investigations, and messaging. She is a non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Prior to joining the private sector, she spent a decade as a CIA officer, serving as an intelligence analyst, briefer, and manager. Her regional expertise includes Europe and the Middle East. Ms. Otis is the author of the forthcoming book True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News, to be published on July 28, 2020 by Macmillan Publishers. In this episode, we discuss the role of technology in accelerating the spread of disinformation; its increasing use by state, non-state, and commercial actors; and the vital role an educated population has in implementing effective intervention tactics and counter-measures. Some of the highlights from our interview include the following: • Disinformation and propaganda have been a part of the information landscape for a long time, but the current news focus sometimes creates a misconception that it is a new phenomenon. The tools and tactics that organizations use might change with the creation of new media, but the patterns and messages are the same throughout the historical context. • Because fake news and disinformation are not new phenomena, there are actions that can be taken to defend against it and people can be armed against it. People should feel hopeful that there are actions they themselves can take to become a first line of defense against fake news. • People should also have a feeling of responsibility that they are part of the solution in being more conscientious about what information they consume and what they share. • The number of players involved in creating, disseminating, and amplifying disinformation will keep increasing as countries and groups see how effective and successful others currently are at using disinformation as a tool or weapon. • More foreign governments will be getting involved, but commercial entities will also move into the space as “disinformation-for-hire” with troll farms and black PR firms. • Most organizations, from DoD to non-profits, are similar in that they do not have a deep enough capability to look at the issue of disinformation. There need to be far more people trained in disinformation investigation and analysis. • Disinformation investigation often looks for the same trends and patterns from previous years, while disinformation actors have learned from those trends and become ever more sophisticated. • We need to pay more attention to the actual solutions of how we minimize the risk of disinformation with different intervention tactics, instead of only looking for current threat actors and trends. • Education plays a huge role in defending against disinformation, especially with organizations providing training to both consumers and journalists to consider information and use OSINT tools.Stay tuned to the Mad Scientist Laboratory for our next podcast with Molly Cain (founder of GovCity, former DHS Director of Venture, and entrepreneurship expert) addressing talent management, leadership, and innovation on 25 June 2020!

Jean Le Roux, a research associate at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, recently collaborated with Africa Check to expose these tactics.

This week's episode is a foray into astroturfing - promoting ideas through bots intending to mislead the public - and what this means in the time of Covid -19 Links from the show Make Me Smart - Who's organizing those anti-quarantine protests?https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and-molly/whos-organizing-those-anti-quarantine-protests/The Digital Forensic Research Lab - the 12 ways to spot a bothttps://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-twelve-ways-to-spot-a-bot-aedc7d9c110cMusic by Kevin MacLeodNowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The threat from violent white supremacists is on the rise worldwide, especially in the United States, as evidenced by the horrific mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Emerson T. Brooking, resident fellow in the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, and James Lamond, Managing Director of the “Moscow Project” and senior policy advisor at the Center for American Progress, discuss with host Carol Castiel the various domestic as well as foreign factors that contribute to the rise of white ethno-nationalism. We also highlight the nefarious role of Russia, which interfered in the 2016 US elections and which, according to US intelligence agencies, is currently engaged in attempting to sabotage the upcoming 2020 elections, and what can be done to avert it. 

Warren is sunning himself in Glastonbury this week. In his absence, Raj and Rowan talk about political polarisation and what can be done about it. Why have major political parties drifted to the right, especially in the US - and what can progressives do to combat it that isn't "get more racist?" Featuring an interview with Emerson Brooking of the Digital Forensic Research Lab on state-sponsored disinformation! The full interview will be released as a bonus later this week. Check out his work at https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/component/tags/tag/digital-forensic-research-lab Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/connectedanddisaffected Follow us on Soundcloud! Follow us on Twitter! – twitter.com/CandDPodcast We're also on iTunes and Spotify!

On the fifth episode of Russia Rising, we’ll explore the growing information war between Russia and the West. Whether it's a chemical weapons attack in Syria, the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England or the war in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin often promotes a much different version of events from the one being presented by Western governments. And in an age of fake news, social media and countless alternative online news sources, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction and know whom to trust.    In this context, we’ll speak with Russian analyst Julian Lindley-French, who warns the Kremlin has deployed an effective propaganda strategy known as ‘Maskirovka.’ It began as a Russian military doctrine 600 years ago, but has recently evolved into a political weapon. We’ll explore a number of recent examples of ‘Maskirovka’ by speaking with Rasmus Nilsson, an expert in Russian Politics and Foreign Policy at University College London.    Edward Lucas, a Russia expert at the Center for European Policy Analysis, explains how each time the West accuses of Moscow of behaving badly, the Kremlin responds — not only with denials — but also by promoting numerous different theories and possible explanations. “The main thing is to distract,” he says. “Spread as many different conspiracy theories and alternative explanations as possible, so people think: we don’t really know what’s going on and who’s to know what the facts are.”   And spreading those alternative theories has never been easier, thanks to the internet and social media. We’ll speak via Skype with Lukas Andriukaitis, an analyst with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks fake news online. And we’ll also take a tour behind the scenes of one of the world’s most controversial TV news networks: RT, formerly known as Russia Today, is a Kremlin-funded TV channel that’s broadcast outside of Russia to more than 100 countries, including Canada. The United States has accused RT of being a propaganda weapon for the Kremlin and its American subsidiary was forced to register as a “foreign agent.” We’ll put those allegations to the network’s deputy editor in Moscow, Anna Belkina.  Contact: Twitter: @JeffSempleGN E-mail: RussiaRising@curiouscast.ca Guests: Julian Lindley-French, Canadian Global Affairs Institute @FrencLindley Rasmus Nilsson, University College London @RNilsson79 Edward Lucas, Center for European Policy Analysis @EdwardLucas Lukas Andriukaitis, Digital Forensic Research Lab @LAndriukaitis Anna Belkina, Deputy Editor of RT @Anabelle10021

Alternate Current Radio Presents: Boiler RoomThis episode kicks off with a barrage of ice breaker articles, hide your young kids and don't listen out loud at work this may not be appropriate for certain audiences, truth can be stranger than fiction though in 2018, so buckle up and prepare for a world where adults in college are made uncomfortable by capital letters, red ink and clapping. Learn about parents who name the children things like "ABCDE", the practice of Hollywood "vixens" using facial creams made of cloned stem cells from South Korean foreskins and designer gene edited baby sciences in China. Things get serious in the second half of the show when the gang discusses the latest damning data leaks about Facebook's involvement with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, the revolving doors of politics, intelligence and surveillance in social media giants. The bombshell story of the leaked documents that if legitimate prove the huge psyop in Europe funded by the UK and US called the "Integrity Initiative" used to push West vs. Russia and Russian collusion in the U.S. election. Learn about the Chinese initiatives to block the rays of the sun with various techniques including airborne aerosol spraying programs and of course, conversely Chinese research on artificial sun technology. NPCs and PC police beware, this is another wild one, so buckle up folks!Sit at the Social Rejects Club round table with Hesher, Spore, Jay, Infidel and Max and Randy J.

On today's show, Kevin welcomes back Aric Toler to learn more about the August 31 assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko, the separatist leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, or DNR. What path led Zakharchenko to this grisly end, and who planted the bomb that killed him? An open-source intelligence expert at Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, Aric Toler follows eastern Ukraine's separatists as closely as anybody.Follow Aric at Twitter:https://twitter.com/AricTolerContribute your hard-earned cash to this podcast:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockMusic:“Polyushka Polye” by The Red Army Choir, www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YlbiyiuMcОлег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock)

It seems everyone’s getting in on the “fake news” game today, from far-right parties in Germany to critics of Catalan separatism — but none more concertedly than the Russian state itself. In this episode we...

In unserer heutigen Folge von GASPacho Podcast dreht sich alles um die Themenkomplexe Fake News, Information Warfare und Disinformation. Spätestens seit Beginn des Konflikts in der Ostukraine und den Verwerfungen des US-amerikanischen Wahlkampfs im vergangenen Herbst sind diese folgenschweren Themen zunehmend in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt und werden seither kontrovers seitens der Politik und Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert. Die Begrifflichkeiten dieses umfassenden Themengebietes zu klären und um im Detail Aufschluss über die Maßnahmen zur Abwehr dieser Bedrohungsszenarien zu geben, haben wir uns heute Ben Nimmo Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab virtuell in unser Passauer Podcast Studio eingeladen.