Interesting how so many of the key analysis keeps going back to Soviet history. This is Soviet-era disinfo. Just it happens to use computers
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For examplepic.twitter.com/91qKyNkT8L
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Finally, Professor
@RidT, begins by quoting Col. Rolf Wagenbreth, Head of Active Measures "Dept X" for the East German Stasi for 2 decadespic.twitter.com/ml77buKAju
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This is such an unbelievably important point. Active measures work by exploiting *existing* cracks.
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Sometimes it's exposing truths, sometimes it's creating fabrications. Sometimes creating false narratives using selectively exposed truths.
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@RidT: "The more polarized a society, the more vulnerable it is"3 replies 76 retweets 155 likes -
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@RidT's opening remarks. This document is a gem. So much important material in here. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-trid-033017.pdf …2 replies 80 retweets 130 likes -
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For example, the observation that for 60 years, disinfo has been the norm. For 20 years, digital espionage has been the norm....
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... but in the past two years, Russia has been pioneering the combination of the two (which matches up with Mandia's comments earlier)
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And asks ominous Q: is the recent upsurge in disinfo the aberration? Perhaps this is the normal & the 90s / 2000s lull was the unusual case.
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Did you miss the 1990s anti-Clinton disinfo?
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I don't think the claim is that it didn't happen, just lower freq. Rid (quoting Martin) said "likely 10,000+ active measures during ColdWar"
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