In a valley in the Carpathian mountains of south-west Ukraine, a small group is engaged in battle with Russia—armed not with rockets and missiles, but with software and engineering skills, honed to bolster frontline fighters in the grueling three-month war. Source: Inside the ‘IT unit’: In Ukraine, an army of techies hone their skills in...
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UK Wages Information War in 20 Countries Around Russia
From Declassified UK: The project most clearly directed at Russia is the Counter Disinformation and Media Development programme. It is run around Russia’s western border, from the Baltic States to Central and Eastern Europe, although project documents do not disclose specific countries. It cost £60.4m in the four years to 2021. The programme ”supports [the government’s] Russia...
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US Cranking Up the Information War with Russia
From SpyTalk on Substack “Even with the Russian government blocking golosameriki.com and various social media platforms, the Russian people are still finding VOA news and information online via circumvention tools like Psiphon and nth Link,” Fry said. “Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, VOA’s Russian-language reporting has logged millions of video views across digital platforms.”...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...
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Pentagon Think Tank: Beware Russian Information Operations
The Institute for the Study of War, a hawkish think tank in Washington, is funded by defense contractors, which means it favors a militarized and confrontational foreign policy. To understand where U.S-Russia Cold War is going–where it will be fought and how–I follow ISW, albeit with care. Russia’s spy games do not justify another Cold...