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Jihadist Navy SEALs Promo Video
I was in Special Forces many years ago, on a SCUBA team. Many of the scenarios they were attempting to portray actually made me guffaw. Yes, it is ISIS propaganda. Yes, it shows ISIS’ elite fighters....
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Russia’s Infamous ‘Troll Factory’ Is Now Posing as a Media Empire
A Russian ‘troll factory’ rebranded itself as a network of legitimate news sites. But hasn’t quite abandoned its old ways. March 24, 2017 — 18:30 — Update: 19:52 By Alexey Kovalev Russia’s infamous...
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VILE VIDEOS ISIS floods YouTube with sick propaganda praising Westminster...
Some videos feature beheadings and extreme violence carried out by children By Andy Jehring 27th March 2017, 1:02 am ISIS has flooded YouTube with hundreds of violent recruitment videos in the wake of...
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Russian Humor – Is It Real?
Laughter, in an unattributable quote, is said to be the best medicine. A quote from Mark Laity, NATO Strategic Communications chief: When I was the NATO spokesman in FYROM in 2001 there was a rumour...
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TASR Signed A Co-operation Agreement With Pro-Putin Agency Sputnik
To quote from StopFake on Facebook: News agency of Slovakia (TASR) just signed a cooperation agreement with Sputnik News agency. StopFake has debunked numerous fakes and propaganda piece coming from...
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Pew: The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online
Pew Research Center FOR RELEASE MARCH 29, 2017 The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online Many experts fear uncivil and manipulative behaviors on the internet will persist – and...
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U.K. Urges Facebook, Google to Tackle Terrorist Propaganda
by Alex Morales March 30, 2017, 4:42 PM EDT U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd urged social media and technology companies to do more to identify and eliminate terrorist content from the internet, after a...
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Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem
Here is some light weekend reading! ht to Chris Nethery for the introduction! </end editorial> Kate Starbird Asst. Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at UW. Researcher of crisis...
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Comment About Russian Influence
I received the following comment today from a respected Ph.D. colleague and a former chief of IO at CENTCOM. Now he runs an IO/Influence corporation. I hope the White House and Congress are listening....
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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 1 APR 07
WEEK 20: Fardh Al-Qanooning “Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wang Chung tonight.” – Wang Chung / Peter Wolf We’ve come a long way in a short time. What a difference between Wednesday’s Arab...
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Strategic Communications and Public Diplomacy “Seen on the Web” – March 30, 2017
This is a compilation of news, articles, essays, and reports on strategic communications, Public Diplomacy, public affairs, U.S. government international broadcasting, and information operations. The...
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Honey Trap Exposes Israeli Army’s Vulnerability to Social Media
by Gwen Ackerman @GwenSahar April 3, 2017, 5:00 PM EDT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/honey-trap-exposes-army-s-vulnerability-to-social-media-risks It was a 21st-century twist on an...
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IO Qualification: “He Or She Gets It”
I’m feeling good. A very respected colleague, in a very respectable position of importance, just wrote to me saying, ‘You’re the only one who got my Facebook post!’ The subject was information warfare,...
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S.625 – Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act
S.625 – Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act115th Congress (2017-2018) BILL Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (Introduced 03/14/2017) Committees: Senate – Foreign Relations...
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Syria Strike BDA
A friend’s comment: “Contrast with Russia MoD drone “BDA” I’m about to publish a compilation of Russian media reporting – a ton of propaganda and a few professional reports. By the way, 58/59 hits....
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Russian Media (+) Reporting On Syrian Strike
English language Russian media, Russian proxies, Russian allies and a few interesting ones thrown in. By far, my favorite: US Attack in Syria was ‘Pre-Planned as Launching Cruise Missile Within Hours...
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Baghdad Ten Years Ago – 08 Apr 07: Doom’s Day
WEEK 21: In some regards, April 2007 was Al Qaeda in Iraq’s high-water mark as it unleashed a torrent of bombings. It was the end of the beginning of its demise which was evident in the progress Fardh...
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First Draft releases guide to savvy reporting on fake news
By Nausicaa Renner, CJR APRIL 7, 2017 First Draft News’s Field Guide to Fake News IF THERE’S ONE—and only one—thing we can say definitively about fake news, it’s that it inspired some great reporting,...
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How the alt-right brought #SyriaHoax to America
Tracing the “false flag” claim back to a pro-Assad website Diagram of how the “false flag” claim spread. US President Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes against Syria in the wake of a major...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update- 9 April 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Only a short news update since we are seeing some very interesting developments. Excellent arguments by Amb Haley, SECSTATE...
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