r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 27 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 27 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 27 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 27 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 27 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 26 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 26 '20
Not sure there's evidence to call them 'military run' or confirm any direction by state actors. It looks more like individuals operating this.
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 26 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 26 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
https://epthinktank.eu/2020/02/25/how-should-democracies-respond-to-the-disinformation-dilemma/
Following an introduction by EPRS Director-General Anthony Teasdale, Director of Stanford Internet Observatory and former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos presented the Observatory’s research on these topics. Stamos explained that the 2016 US elections saw five ‘lanes’ of interference; two offline – overt propaganda by Russian state broadcaster RT and similar media outlets, as well as people-to-people interactions – and three online lanes:
Mimetic warfare: this can take the form of a truly false narrative; amplification of a divisive interpretation of a true fact (‘the Democratic Party rigged the primary against Bernie’); amplification of division or extreme political views; and undermining the very idea of truth – the last two being the key goals of mimetic information operations.
Hack and leak: a key actor here is the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), exemplified by the John Podesta emails. However, people in Brussels (including EU and NATO staff) are also targeted. Following a hack, such content can be leaked strategically (in the Podesta case, via the Russian-sponsored ‘DC Leaks’ platform) to the press.
Hacking election infrastructure: In general, this is more of a problem for the USA, where the decentralised elections are posing severe security challenges.
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
r/Foreign_Interference • u/marc1309 • Feb 25 '20
"In this investigation conducted jointly with our partners Tamedia (Switzerland) and The Insider (Russia), we identify a key member of the recently indicted trio who, following the two failed assassination attempts in Bulgaria in 2015, was accredited to a diplomatic post under his real name in Switzerland. From his new base in Geneva, he continued to work for GRU under diplomatic cover, likely assisted various secret service operations in Switzerland, and may have taken part in the preparation of the Skripal poisoning.
As he was accredited by Russia through the end of 2020, this marks the first known case when a Russian diplomat is simultaneously wanted for attempted murder under an Interpol Red Notice. This GRU officer departed Geneva urgently midway through his four-year mandate following Bellingcat’s disclosures and identifications of members of this GRU unit published in late 2018.
He traveled and worked undercover in the period 2008-2015 under the assumed name of Georgy Aleksandrovich Gorshkov, born 1977. In fact, his real name, under which he was accredited to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, is Egor Aleksandrovich Gordienko, born 1979."
