[…] are also said to have carried out the 2018 hack of the Institute for Statecraft (IfS), a UK think tank created apparently to try and combat Russian disinformation. Klarenberg wrote about this for Russia’s Sputnik News in 2018.20 To my knowledge Klarenberg has never written anything critical of Russia.21 The EU produces a regular […]
[…] are also said to have carried out the 2018 hack of the Institute for Statecraft (IfS), a UK think tank created apparently to try and combat Russian disinformation. Klarenberg wrote about this for Russia’s Sputnik News in 2018.20 To my knowledge Klarenberg has never written anything critical of Russia.21 The EU produces a regular […]
[…] frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – many presumed previously to be disinformation – and offers them as true. Here’s a quote from the interview cited in footnote 2 above which conveys this better than any single quote in […]
[PDF file]: […] were being interviewed by Asil Nadir at his headquarters in Istanbul for posts in his security team. The couple found themselves in a web of lies and disinformation generated by a long-running feud between the British spooks, the Serious Fraud Office and the investigative reporters David Alford and Peter Salkeld from Central Television’s Cook […]
[PDF file]: […] were being interviewed by Asil Nadir at his headquarters in Istanbul for posts in his security team. The couple found themselves in a web of lies and disinformation generated by a long-running feud between the British spooks, the Serious Fraud Office and the investigative reporters David Alford and Peter Salkeld from Central Television’s Cook […]
[PDF file]: […] US Government was mounting a sustained cover-up about its secret contact with aliens. He was encouraged in that belief by US Government officials who fed him further disinformation. In 1976, US Admiral Bobby Ray Inman approached the CIA on behalf of Dr Mitchell. Today Admiral Inman says that he was told ‘my authority was […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck […]
[…] The Consortium on Facebook to be told by that site that this was a ‘fake news’ source. Add that to the US government’s Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act and we can see the totalitarian, information-management future. That act: ‘…. mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense, Director […]
[…] European Union’s 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: A Framework for Networked Defence.16 In other words, how do we cope with (mostly Russian) disinformation? This is not an easy read. Here’s a paragraph on p. 7. (Bold in the original.) In 2023, the defender community made significant ‘Finance firms gave […]
[PDF file]: […] is applied, covering documentary films, wartime dramas and even ‘swinging 60s’ material. Toward the end of the narrative, it expands to include the struggle against radicalisation and disinformation on the internet. But what do we mean by ‘propaganda’? According to the 1912 Concise Oxford Dictionary it was ‘efforts, schemes, principles of propagation (which is […]
