/r/ActiveMeasures
For the discussion of active measures and influence campaigns. With current events as they are, this is meant to be a space to discuss Russia-style propaganda and censorship in both the United States and around the world, with a particular emphasis on examples found within the reddit community.
For the discussion of active measures and influence campaigns. With current events as they are, this is meant to be a space to discuss Russia-style propaganda and censorship in both the United States and around the world, with a particular emphasis on examples found within the reddit community. The goal is to create and maintain a space where anyone can share their point of view on this topic, even if the moderators disagree with you. Understandably given the topic, there is a lot of disinformation on all "sides". It's the the belief the moderators here that only way we will ever reach clarity and break free from the disinformation is by talking about it and learning from each other.
The Senate's disinformation primer on Russian active measures and influence campaigns.
A great resource for learning more about the different ways people can try to persuade, manipulate, and control you is Changing Minds.
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Potential warning signs of foreign interference - targeting media
- gifts
- donations
- expenses-paid travel
- help with immigration processes
- networking opportunities
- special access to senior officials or businesspeople in Australia or a foreign country
- seminars, study tours, business inspections or similar opportunities.
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Countering Foreign Interference in Australia
The Australian government has released a full report on the tactics - ‘first ever analysis of foreign interference and espionage threats’.
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If anyone here is in counterintelligence and supports democracy, please go into emergency mode. Don’t hoard knowledge about us being manipulated.
If the Five Eyes have good evidence about any NATO governments being controlled by Putin, Xi or other bad guys, and/or how active measures or other strategies are supporting that, and they don’t have a very good sneaky plan for dealing with that, I think this might be the time to burn sources and methods and put all of the evidence out there, to try to move public opinion, or to at least give people who mean well some clarity.
This might really be the last month or so before an iron claw clutches the world.
There might not be decent governments in a position to do honorable, useful things with counterintelligence.
Maybe all intelligence agencies can do now that’s constructive is tell us what they know about who’s controlling us, how and why.
Any loyal intelligence people getting orders not to do that need to consider the possibility that they’re operating in a framework designed by the bad guys for the bad guys.
So, it’s not great to save counterintelligence about this for a rainy day. This seems like it’s the rainy day.
Edit: I crossposted in worldnews, too, but I think I might be shadow banned there, anyway, for past efforts to talk about manipulation there. And, if there’s a reason my proposed strategy is bad, sorry. I’m not in anything remotely related to intelligence. I’m just a regular scared person wondering where the cavalry is. I thought we paid for a lot of cavalry.
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Russian state tv is stunned
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