The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] hitherto. Did Sheehan really see the classified sections of Blue Book? It seems highly improbable to me. More likely, surely, that he was the object of a disinformation operation. I wonder if the long US military disinformation project in the 1980s on UFOs, which climaxed with the MJ-12 nonsense about US government-alien contact, began […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] that the Russians and/or Cubans were involved.’ 2 The authors of the piece – anonymously credited as being ‘WhoWhatWhy staff’ – declare that the Politico story is disinformation. In doing this they quote the Webster’s dictionary definition of ‘disinformation’: ‘false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] is a huge site with millions of views, this matters. I look at it every few weeks just to see . . . and recently noticed another disinformation belter. One Mark Steele, who claims to have been a research scientist,19 has an essay there on the dangers of 5G.20 The piece concludes thus: To […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] is a huge site with millions of views, this matters. I look at it every few weeks just to see . . . and recently noticed another disinformation belter. One Mark Steele, who claims to have been a research scientist,1 has an essay there on the dangers of 5G.2 The piece concludes thus: To […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] a huge site with millions of views, this matters. I look at the site every few weeks just to see . . . and recently noticed another disinformation belter. One Mark Steele, who claims to have been a research scientist,1 has an essay there on the dangers of 5G.2 The piece concludes thus: To […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] third party sourced. 19 20 6 How much of this is true? I looked at the biowarfare centres allegation. Such Russian claims have been universally poo-pooed as disinformation in the West. (Well, they would be, you may be thinking.) The Russian charges were presented to the UN in 2022 in a letter.21 The evidence […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] that the Russians and/or Cubans were involved.’ 2 The authors of the piece – anonymously credited as being ‘WhoWhatWhy staff’ – declare that the Politico story is disinformation. In doing this they quote the Webster’s dictionary definition of ‘disinformation’: ‘false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the 2014 ceasefire at every opportunity.5 How much of this is true? I looked at the biowarfare centres allegation. Such Russian claims have been universally poo-pooed as disinformation in the West. (Well, they would be, you may be thinking.) The Russian charges were presented to the UN in 2022 in a letter.6 The evidence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] our Eastern Neighbourhood programme. We are supporting partners through training, mentoring and skill-building to improve audiences’ access to high-quality, accurate and engaging content, which can help counter disinformation and support democracy and prosperity in these politically fragile contexts. And, in addition to supporting journalists, editors, and producers by strengthening editorial skills and strategy, we […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a great final sentence but the gist is clear enough. * There has been a lot of research and comment on Russia’s so-called hybrid warfare – sabotage, disinformation, assassination, psy-ops etc. – as a quick google demonstrates. The Daily Telegraph ran a long piece on some recent events in Germany which seem to show […]

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