/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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Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) on X: Russians try to advance toward Kharkiv but rely on disinformation
01:45 UTC
It’s time for our own “active measure”
All of us by now have noticed Russian, Chinese and Iranian bot accounts flooding Reddit with posts trying to manipulate the US voting electorate. China wants us to abandon Taiwan and re-elect trump, Russia wants us to abandon Ukraine and re-elect trump, and Iran( the regime not the people) wants us to hate Israel and the Jewish people as much as they do.
Most of us have noticed that Reddit is motivated by perverse incentives (user count, ad revenue) to allow bot accounts to continue spamming misinformation and thus they have not meaningfully addressed propaganda being spread on Reddit when it was brought up over 5 years ago.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna903486
It’s time. We all must write our senators and local house representatives to address this. Look at how a faction of the Republican Party has embraced Russia. Look at how a faction of the Democratic Party is now onboard with Islamic terrorism. These propaganda efforts by foreign adversaries are actually successful and if we don’t act now, a massive part of our political discussion will be completely hijacked in greater degrees than ever before.
01:53 UTC
Anyone notice the totally organic anti-NATO posting that's started showing up?
I (unfortunately) occasionally read through comments on subs like memesopdidntlike and have noticed a lot of new comments about how NATO is actually bad for the US. How it's 'leftist' and 'deep state' and 'attempting to destroy national sovereignty.'
You know, NATO, the organization specifically formed as a defensive pact against Soviet/Russian aggression, that is entirely beneficial for the US and other member states.
I've also seen the same points made against the UN. Russia is on the security council obviously, but it appears they want to erode any possibility of international oversight against their aggression.
Highly concerning, and I hope nobody is stupid enough to buy into it.
18:21 UTC
Very blatant Palestinian propaganda account spamming the site
The default username account "Particular_Log_3594" was created just this past December and in that time has built up nearly 300,000 karma posting propaganda all over the site. Literally every single post and comment from this account, of which there are hundreds, possibly thousands, is solely about this one topic.
It is one of the primary accounts that is spamming subs like interestingasfuck, damnthatsinteresting, and therewasanattempt with the anti-West and pro-Palestinian content.
I don't need to list any examples because it's all so very blatant. Just click the profile and without even having to scroll you will see what I am talking about.
19:39 UTC
Journalist Geneviève Tabouis: Soviet Funding and Influence • desk russie
On Russia’s informational warfare — Geneviève Tabouis (1892-1985) was a well-known French journalist specializing in foreign politics. She also received monthly subsidies from the USSR’s embassy. A piece by historian Cécile Vaissié worth rereading today https://desk-russie.info/2021/11/16/journalist-genevieve-tabouis.html
18:46 UTC