@Remittancegirl

#InformationWarfare

(1/2)

I can see your point.

Also, reducing reporting on MAGA and TheOrangePeril to the main events/happenings might be a counter-strategy against #SteveBannon's #InfoWarfare strategy #FloodingTheZoneWithShit:

'The flood of 200+ executive orders in Trump's first days exemplifies Naomi Klein's "shock doctrine" - using chaos and crisis to push through radical changes while people are too disoriented to effectively resist. This isn't just politics...

AP: To drive Americans apart, Russia helped spread hurricane disinformation

"...In some cases, the claims about the storms include fake images created using artificial intelligence, such as a photo depicting scenes of devastating flooding at Disney World that never happened, researchers say...."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/to-drive-americans-apart-russia-helped-spread-hurricane-disinformation

#ai #deepfake #disinformation #infowarfare #hurricanes #wx #weather

To drive Americans apart, Russia helped spread hurricane disinformation

In some cases, the claims about the storms include fake images created using artificial intelligence, such as a photo depicting scenes of devastating flooding at Disney World that never happened, researchers say.

PBS News

Russia's Information Warfare: What Is It?
This is a must-read by Jackie Singh aka Hacking But Legal!

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/russias-information-warfare-what

#russiaIsATerroristState #infowarfare #disinformation #war

Russia's Information Warfare: What Is It?

Learn how the Kremlin uses lies to manipulate events & erode trust.

Hacking, but Legal

@GreenFire @Beachbum

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(6/6)

...complete official investigation with full access rights is, in my view, essential.

If a public official committed high treason, we all need to know and they need to be held to account, in #Europe, #America, and elsewhere.

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@GreenFire @Beachbum

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(5/n)

...IF bribery was only attempted and NO other key personnel at the #CDU and #SPD were really involved, *why are both parties stonewalling?!?*

Finally, YES, this is a matter of #NationalSecurity (or rather #EUsecurity.) HOWEVER, the current (scarce, admittedly) evidence rather seems to suggest that the political leaders might have been *knowingly* endangering EU security.

Therefore, a...

@GreenFire @Beachbum

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(4/n)

...received any money from #Moscow. However, given the loads of #DarkMoney having been spen by the #Kremlin in Western democracies, it would be astonishing, if #Putler's agent hadn't AT LEAST tried to suborn the successors of #Schröder as well.
I am positive that the former #KGB agent was an avoid student of #SunTzu.

And now, let's ask the decisi ve question of the evening:
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@GreenFire @Beachbum

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(3/n)

...AT LEAST after retiring from public office, is worrying.

Connecting the dots: Hardly a week seems to pass by without a new scandal involving a representative of the extremist right-wing AfD (#NoAfD) party. Several "allegedly" have received huge sums of money in return for access to the #German and #European parliaments.

Now, there is no indication that either #Scholz or #Merkel ever...

@GreenFire @Beachbum

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(2/n)

...organizations focussing on #InvestigativeJoournalism (e. g. #PanamaPapers, #SuisseSecrets, etc,) usually involving data leaks and #DataJournalism.

What has already been uncovered about the disgraced #PutinsPuppet and former Chancellor #GerhardSchröder, who unquestionable profited greatly from his favoritism of #Putin while serving as chancellor,...

@GreenFire

#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare

#TheRussianConnection
(1/n)

"My question is….how did they get classified documents? They should be in jail for even receiving them let alone disseminating the info."

#Europe is not the #US. In several countries, including #Germany, an independent press serves as an important Fourth Estate in the system of checks and balances.

Some #German newspapers, such as the #SüddeutscheZeitung, are part of an international cross-media...
@Beachbum

@WagnerTonight

#InfoWarfare in Ukraine...from #Washinton State

"A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. #Navy noncommissioned officer—a prominent online voice supporting #Russia’s war on #Ukraine—played a key role in the spread of intelligence documents allegedly leaked by Airman First Class Jack #Teixeira.

A purported #Russian blogger known as #DonbassDevushka, which translates as..."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/social-media-account-overseen-by-former-navy-noncommissioned-officer-helped-spread-secrets-a4b5643b

WSJ News Exclusive | Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets

An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms

WSJ