Sabotage

Across Europe, officials are tracking a spate of suspected sabotage--from GPS jamming in the Baltic to attacks on public infrastructure in Czechia--attacks believed to tie back to Russia. Meanwhile, a senior U.S. diplomat warns that most Americans don't appreciate just how much foreign disinformati…

Persuade, Influence, and Change

Influence campaigns come in a lot of shapes and sizes.  On the Korean peninsula, the back and forth between Soul and Pyongyang sees the North launching garbage balloons and the South responding with K-Pop.  In Europe--awash in Russian disinformation as voters cast ballots to shape the European Parl…

"We're Doing Miserably."

The leaders of U.S. influence operations met at a conference in Florida recently and concluded the United States is not performing well in the face of Russian and Chinese efforts. Patrick Tucker, the science and technology editor at Defense One, discusses his reporting on that conclusion and the re…

Capabilities and Intentions

The Carter Center and the McCain Institute highlight disinformation for hire in a new report; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tracks threats to America's elections and grapples with who will tell the American public when disinformation drops on the eve of an election; lessons from the S…

Ops

COPY COP--a Russia aligned disinformation network is using AI to generate content at scale with divisive and biased content.  Meanwhile, the French report on  PORTAL KOMBAT, a network of Russian content portals that now span Europe, countries in Africa and Asia, pushing pro-Russian narratives about…

Hype

This week: evidence of Russia, China, and Iran seeking to exploit campus unrest; Russia preys on public health anxieties in Africa; Tucker Carlson presents Russian fascism to his audience; the 4th Psychological Operations Group gets spooky (again); and respected voices urge all of us to neither dow…

"Pounded"

France "Pounded" by Russian Disinformation as part of an EU-wide campaign to influence European Parliamentary Elections; Building Momentum for Foreign Disinformation Campaigns Targeting the United States; The Role of Local Journalism in Protecting America's Information Ecosystem; and more in the se…

Active Measures Newsletter Podcast 0001

The debut, companion podcast to the Active Measures Newsletter from the Pell Center at Salve Regina University.  Featuring Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson, this edition looks at reporting on the Russian Foreign Ministry's secret plan to weaken the United States and the West; Russia's activities in Afri…