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Lobster Issue

[…] studying foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). It will analyse over 30 cases of FIMI, identify attackers’ tactics, and develop countermeasures. ATHENA will create tools like a disinformation analysis dashboard and offer training to schools and universities. The project also aims to improve legal frameworks and help people recognise disinformation.16 Athena began in 2023 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] studying foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). It will analyse over 30 cases of FIMI, identify attackers’ tactics, and develop countermeasures. ATHENA will create tools like a disinformation analysis dashboard and offer training to schools and universities. The project also aims to improve legal frameworks and help people recognise disinformation.16 Athena began in 2023 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] studying foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). It will analyse over 30 cases of FIMI, identify attackers’ tactics, and develop countermeasures. ATHENA will create tools like a disinformation analysis dashboard and offer training to schools and universities. The project also aims to improve legal frameworks and help people recognise disinformation.1 Athena began in 2023 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] to be foot-dragging in its inquiries: they’re trying to protect an older operation of theirs which penetrated the Russian Mob in the USA.147 The second, ‘Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus’, shows how complex the analysis of data disinformation campaigns is becoming. It’s summary is this: ‘This report describes an extensive […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] these columns more than twenty years ago, when I began paddling in the murky pool of a US military operation to disinform some American UFO buffs.5 That disinformation campaign climaxed with the production and distribution of the MJ-12 papers – a pretty sophisticated forgery.6 At the centre of this was Sergeant Richard Doty of […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] of the paranoid right’s conspiracy fantasies, the Labour Cabinet was regarded with suspicion and many of its members, notably Wilson himself, were subjected to surveillance, burglaries and disinformation in this period. The anti-communist hysteria encompassed the formation of private militias – the so-called private armies – by former intelligence and military personnel, media speculation […]

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[…] the still-classified archives of the government. But I seriously doubt it. I can tell you for a fact that our democracy is suffocating under an avalanche of disinformation. Trump won the 2020 election! Covid vaccines are seeded with microchips! Democrats are blood-sucking pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] Challenges 3. China 4. Indo-Pacific Realignment 5. Sino-US Tech Competition 6. Russia 7. Continuity of Government and the Economy 8. Disruption of the Global Financial System 9. Disinformation 10. Energy Security and Sustainability 11. Post Pandemic Health The official list is at . 29 12 12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies 13. Trade and Deglobalisation […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] . 1 1 4. Indo-Pacific Realignment 5. Sino-US Tech Competition 6. Russia 7. Continuity of Government and the Economy 8. Disruption of the Global Financial System 9. Disinformation 10. Energy Security and Sustainability 11. Post Pandemic Health 12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies 13. Trade and Deglobalisation 14. Ukraine Which might keep them busy for […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] extracted from the Foreign Office the information that the source of this allegation had been a tiny local paper in Southern Germany. Here is a recognisable IRD disinformation operation: not white, not grey, but black propaganda. IRD source plants false story in small outlet – perhaps using a press agency of some kind; perhaps […]

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