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E Rosalie
@Info_Rosalie
Public health + national security • Johns Hopkins alum • Tracking mysterious weaponized pigeons and FIMI • Most likely building a database somewhere
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Apr 25 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
🧵The Doppelgänger Operation has responded to votes on U.S. funding for Israel and Ukraine with a clear goal: Undermine trust in the U.S.
infoepi.org/posts/2024/04/… NOTE: This brief will outline the topics in content but will not address the operation’s mechanics because many other researchers have addressed them at length. See 45 titles from 36 sources over 1.6 years here: infoepi.org/posts/2024/04/…
Apr 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵A little humor. This story is true but has been abbreviated for social media. I went home, and we were talking about artificial intelligence. Relatives who are in agriculture were listening to us talk about the AI legislation.
1/4 Their faces grew increasingly horrified as we discussed that celebrities were concerned with protecting themselves from AI impersonation and copyright infringement from models trained on their material.

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Oct 24, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🔍InfoEpi Lab Study on X (formerly Twitter): This study analyzed content in three categories: Israel-Hamas, Ukraine, and vaccines. Posts from accounts with top tweets in multiple categories were significantly more negative than average.

BRIEF: infoepi.org/posts/2023/10/… Trio-authors: 37 accounts had high-performance tweets across all three topics, henceforth called trio-authors. While some were relevant experts or community leaders, many were armchair experts with problematic track records. infoepi.org/posts/2023/10/…
Sep 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
A rabbi has invited Musk to Auschwitz so he can fully understand antisemitism.

He says he is well aware of what happened. He says he doesn't need to visit to get it. The rabbi says it would be a strong statement for him to come and to combat antisemitism. Musk says he will think about it but that he is very knowledgeable and it is not like he is "ignorant."
Aug 25, 2023 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Russia is ramping up its influence campaigns to sway public opinion, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report.

This article made me want to discuss something adjacent, so I'll summarize the article first.

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nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/… While Russian intelligence's tactics during the 2016 U.S. election were short-lived, the Federal Security Service (FSB) now leverages allies within seemingly independent organizations for long-term propaganda and relationship-building with emerging leaders.
Aug 24, 2023 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Russian Intelligence-Connected Websites Offline 🚫: Media outlets tied to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Federal Security Service (FSB), and Main Directorate (GRU/GU) started failing on August 22. Websites sanctioned by the U.S. treasury. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0126 I noticed failures in my automated media collection on August 22. Many of these websites appear offline in browsers; however, Geopolitca was still online after my logs say the RSS feed failed on August 22, 2023, at 10:24 p.m.
Aug 23, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Caution on this story because people have changed their name to Prigozhin to obfuscate his travels before.

apnews.com/article/ukrain… With that caveat, here's AP: Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, killing all 10 people on board, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency.
Jun 13, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
French authorities have uncovered a digital campaign of information manipulation against France involving Russian actors. These actors, including state entities and entities affiliated with the Russian state, spread false information to deceive the public. france24.com/fr/france/2023… VigiNum, an agency that monitors foreign media manipulation (more on this later), alerted French authorities after it discovered Russian individuals and Russian companies involved in the campaign.
Jun 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I'll tell you one thing I learned today. Serbia experts are right when they say the EU and the US do not understand its importance or what is happening there. Holy cow. We're in trouble. Seeing some requests for reading material! You guys are the best. Here is what I recommend.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Jun 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In a video from June 6, Oleksandr Talipov vents about mil-bloggers posting that "troops are still on the islands." He says the claims are "fake" and, "I contacted our guys, got everyone off the island. At 3 a.m., there was no one there, no casualties." One possibility is that this video indicates foreknowledge, although I wouldn't draw such a conclusion based solely on this. Transcript here: telegra.ph/Transcript-for…
Jun 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Seems like Russia was hoping to force PMCs under state authority with this web.archive.org/web/2023061019… And pretty predictably Wagner is like no Image
Jun 10, 2023 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
1/ I've seen good and bad behavior from NAFO. It's fair to discuss the group's behavior, but this isn't that. It's a thread using an influence technique known as transfer, where you associate an unknown with something an audience knows to influence how they see something. Image 2/ That's not research. I work or talk with many extremism researchers across the political spectrum, religious communities, and internationally, but I've never heard of him.
Jun 9, 2023 • 39 tweets • 9 min read
🧵 A live thread about what we can learn from today's unsealed indictment. Image It put U.S. military and human sources at risk. It made the U.S. vulnerable to foreign attack. Allies as well may be vulnerable. Image
Jun 9, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
1/ 🧵As you probably have heard, on Tuesday, June 6th, at 2:54 local time (which was 01:54 in Norway), earthquake detection systems in the region picked up some unusual activity. This appears to match with the reports of a blast before the dam collapsing. Image 2/ The type of signals these systems picked up suggest that an explosion, a disturbance of some kind happened. jordskjelv.no/meldinger/seis…
Jun 8, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
In the interest of fairness to @tonyannett, a detail that is incorrect is there isn't one fire. There are 431 fires burning throughout Canada. The U.S. is sending firefighters to help.

It's not complicated. Exxon got it in 1988. I'll break it down.

axios.com/2023/06/08/can… IMAGE: An internal memo rec... When it's cold, water freezes. When it's hot, it melts. https://www.climate.gov/
Jun 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Will do a thread on verifying information in a crisis tomorrow because this is resonating way too much. To prepare for it, remember two things: Provenance and provenance (is this the original version, and how do you know?). Image If you can remember three things, then: Source--Who created the original piece of content? How do you know? Are they reliable? An effective manipulation tactic is creating the video your target wants to see. If you want to believe what the video shows you will be easier to fool.
Jun 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When I was little my grandparents used to tell me about their lives under tyrants. If the stories scared me, they would reassure me we were safe now, in the land of the free. I would never need to worry. I would be able to read, worship, move, and speak as I pleased. As I watch scientists I know and admire being targeted for their work, as I see librarians harassed for carrying books that speak about history, and as I witness leaders abuse their power to intimidate people who expose corruption, I don't feel so free anymore.
Jun 6, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
FULL TEXT: Statement by High Representative Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič on the destruction of the Kakhovka dam
eeas.europa.eu/eeas/ukraine-s… Russia’s attacks against Ukrainian civilian critical infrastructure reached an unprecedented level today with the destruction of the dam at Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The European Union condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms.
Jun 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Other than claims that explosives were responsible, what is the evidence for it? I'm mostly seeing the argument that even if there were an explosion, the dam would have washed away the evidence, but this hasn't been followed up with anyone demonstrating how we know that. Are there experts in explosives or hydroelectric dams who agree that an explosion would leave little to no evidence? If not, I'm highly skeptical of arguments based upon plausibility and an inability to prove a negative. This is a common line of reasoning in conspiracy beliefs.
Jun 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One week before the Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) dam failed (whether from negligence or intentional destruction), Russian authorities lifted the requirement to investigate dangerous facilities triggered by "military operations" and terrorism. Image The rule also applies to territories that are Russian-occupied.

The resolution, No. 873, discussed safety issues of hydro-technical structures in the territories of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia Oblast, and Kherson Oblast.

web.archive.org/web/2023060609…
Jun 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
According to Ukraine, Russian forces have reportedly detonated a large dam in the southern part of Ukraine that they currently control. An emergency meeting of the National Security Council of Ukraine is convening related to the dam. Ukrainian authorities have raised alarms about potential flooding downstream the Dnipro River and have called for immediate evacuation. apnews.com/article/russia…