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https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832?s=20@Georgetown To start, students read “Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus” frm @citizenlab @jsrailton @CyberClues @cmatthewbrooks, Peter Tanchak, Ron Diebert citizenlab.ca/2017/05/tainte… for a case study into stolen and manipulated documents & how they can be used in IO
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832?s=20@Georgetown One of my favorite pieces of all time on this subject is “Oxygen of Amplification" from @wphillips49 @datasociety which looks at how the coverage choices of editors and reporters play a role in the amount of oxygen supplied to falsehoods and manipulations datasociety.net/wp-content/upl…
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832?s=20In week 6 of “Lies & Disinformation” @Georgetown, we focused on Myanmar and the Philippines as case studies into (a) domestically aimed influence operations; and (b) how digital harassment, the silencing of activist voices can play a role in influence activities.
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832@Georgetown Our first reading was from @RANDCorporation's Timothy Heath @WarOnTheRocks on China's influence operations targeting the Chinese diaspora. The article does good job of highlighting distinctions between Russian and Chinese operations and their tactics warontherocks.com/2018/03/beijin…
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832@Georgetown The propaganda poster I chose for the week was this one from the 1984 elections in the USSR, which basically reads “Let’s choose the most worthy,” to go along with some of the electoral interference themes we cover in this lesson.
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832@Georgetown @RidT One thing I haven’t yet told you about class is that I kicked off a tradition of picking a propaganda poster to thematically work with each week’s lesson. In week 3, to go along with Active Measures, I decided to go with a classic – this Не болтай! poster from 1941.
https://twitter.com/olgs7/status/1271500145868365832The first recommended reading was an audio clip @NPR on how new technology (printing press) helped Martin Luther change Christianity (h/t to @markondefense for that idea) npr.org/transcripts/50…. @ICFJ also has a great overview on the history of info ops: icfj.org/news/short-gui…