On this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, we discuss explosive reporting from Reuters on a secret U.S. campaign in the Philippines to undermine the Chinese vaccine at the height of the COVID pandemic. We then turn to reporting from David Adam in Nature on the way bad information influences elections--it doesn't necessarily change opinions, but it might change behaviors.  Finally, Dr. Joshua Foust of Syracuse University joins us to discuss U.S. government efforts to use video games to counter disinformation.

On this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, we discuss explosive reporting from Reuters on a secret U.S. campaign in the Philippines to undermine the Chinese vaccine at the height of the COVID pandemic. We then turn to reporting from David Adam in Nature on the way bad information influences elections--it doesn't necessarily change opinions, but it might change behaviors.  Finally, Dr. Joshua Foust of Syracuse University joins us to discuss U.S. government efforts to use video games to counter disinformation.

From the Pell Center at Salve Regina University and the creators of the Active Measures Newsletter, a weekly dive into the latest trends in political warfare, influence, and information campaigns. 

From the Pell Center at Salve Regina University and the creators of the Active Measures Newsletter, a weekly dive into the latest trends in political warfare, influence, and information campaigns.

A weekly dive into the headlines in the Active Measures Newsletter from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University.

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