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✨ In the evolving landscape of automation and AI-driven workflows, we must go beyond orchestrating just data flow.
The Road to InfoOps: https://cd.foundation/blog/2025/11/13/info-ops/

#DataOps #InfoOps #AI

🚨 Meta dismantles 3 covert influence ops from Iran, China & Romania targeting 2025 elections. Fake personas, AI content, and cross-platform tactics exposed. Democracy needs digital defense! 🛡️🗳️ #ElectionIntegrity #InfoOps

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/meta-disrupts-influence-ops-targeting.html

https://medium.com/@txrattler/from-handle-to-human-solo-osint-profiling-with-free-tools-68f5672f94ca

🛰️ Weekly OSINT Download – May 27
Signals tracked. Tools tested. Gaps closed.

📍 Applied Recon:

Practiced identity profiling from minimal data: usernames, metadata, old accounts.

Refined solo background check flow — efficient, client-ready, no fluff.

Geolocation drills: worked image verification and failed trails to sharpen instinct and exit discipline.

Began longform narrative analysis — tracking how pacing and structure shape viewer retention and emotional targeting.

🗂️ Signal Shaping:

Studied why 20-min, 3-arc formats dominate high-retention media.

Logged passive audio elements as ambient framing tools.

Tuned voice delivery for clarity and precision — applied to case narration and info drops.

🛠️ In Progress:

CTF prep: US Cyber Games open soon.

Building quiet authority — showing work through process, not hype.

Laying down content as proof-of-skill, not just noise.

#OSINT #CTF #CyberGames #SignalWork #OpenSourceIntel #InfoOps #SoloRecon #Tradecraft

🇪🇺 Why did the EU develop FIMI?

#FIMI was created to counter external #influence operations, particularly #russian #disinformation. Unlike older disinfo concepts, it shifts focus from content to behavioral intent—meaning that even truthful information can be classified as FIMI if used manipulatively.

This helps policymakers address broader influence strategies, but makes FIMI analytically tricky for researchers.

#InfoOps #Security #EU

🛠️ The #euvsdisinfo #dataset is a fantastic resource—well-structured, highly useful, and a great example of proactive #data sharing in the #research of #disinformation. I’ll be using it in an upcoming research project!

🔍 That said, the data collection #methodology remains a bit opaque. If anyone has insights on how the data is gathered, I’d love to hear more!

🔗 https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

#Disinformation #OSINT #DataTransparency #InfoOps #Research #politicalscience #polsci #eeas

10/10 💡 Want to dive deeper?

This paper breaks down the distinctions between FIMI, Cognitive Warfare & Hybrid Threats—and why they matter for democratic resilience.

🔗 Read here: https://tdhj.org/blog/post/disinformation-cognitive-warfare-hybrid/

Would love to hear your thoughts! How do you see these frameworks interacting?

#InfoOps #SecurityStudies #PolicyDebate #Disinformation

2/10❓ How should we respond to disinformation?

It’s not just about fact-checking falsehoods. Disinformation exploits systemic weaknesses—in institutions, media, and even human cognition.

But different actors (NATO, EU, national governments) approach this threat through different conceptual lenses. Understanding their functional differences is critical to effective defense.

#InfoOps #Security #Democracy

Absolutely delighted to see the Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry being used to help define the scope of this excellent new conference. And it looks a great event to submit a paper to! 'Propaganda and Influence: New Historiographical Perspectives' https://calenda.org/1217954?lang=en #propaganda #disinformation #influenceoperations #infoops #influenceindustry

CFP ALERT! 🚨 Excited to be co-editing this Forum with @marcowenjones in @NatComm journal Critical Studies in #Media Communication: "A Century of #Propaganda Studies: From pen and sword to surveillant smartphone." See doc for info & submission details! https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRE24SaTlY8by45oJ1ahKM-FdWbn9TeREFFLe-GtgH7IjhJOR0av7mSv8V2OZ8kqOb5CScWrvc_i8tw/pub #disinformation #surveillance #psyop #journalism #influenceoperations #infoops #polcomm #commodon #ai

#Disinformation. #InfoOps

https://spravdi.gov.ua/en/russian-information-operations-in-eu-countries/

Important new book alert: Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
by Annalee Newitz https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stories-are-weapons-annalee-newitz/1144065538?ean=9780393881516 #propaganda #disinformation #psyop #infoops @potemkinvillage

"#Meta...pushed back on the notion that Iron Truth was able to get content taken down outside the platform’s official processes, but declined to comment on #IronTruth’s underlying claim of a back channel to company employees...The real risk...in the extent to which companies that control the speech of billions around the world are receptive to insiders arbitrarily policing expression."

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/10/israel-disinformation-social-media-iron-truth/

#Israel #Palestine #Disinformation #PsyOps #OSINT #InfoOps

Excited to have my new chapter "Researching Influence Operations: 'Dark Arts' Mercenaries and the Digital Influence Industry" in Corneliu Bjola and Ilan Manor's The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-digital-diplomacy-9780192859198 #influenceoperations #infoops #disinformation #propaganda #research #media #commodon @potemkinvillage #socialmedia

#Russia #InfoOps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXdIp1TFJu0

Operacje informacyjne to kategoria bezpośrednich i pośrednich operacji wsparcia dla sił zbrojnych.

#INFOOPS na Zachodzie jest częścią zdolności sił zbrojnych. W odróżnieniu do sowieckiej i rosyjskiej kultury strategicznej, podlega pod demokratyczną kontrolę i operacyjność czasu wojny i pokoju.

✅ Dezinformacja w ujęciu definicji NATO to wszelkie przedsięwzięcia mające na celu wprowadzenie przeciwnika w błąd poprzez manipulowanie, działania pozorujące, preparowanie dowodów i prowokujące działania szkodzące jego własnym interesom.

✅ Dezinformacja obejmuje zastosowanie środków w celu manipulacji percepcją decydentów przeciwnika, a także oddziaływania na zachowanie tak, aby przekonać ich do realizacji wskazanego wariantu działania.

✅ Military deception (MILDEC) to zaplanowane i zamierzone działanie w celu dezinformacji procesu decyzyjnego potencjalnego przeciwnika poprzez oddziaływanie na jego dowódcę, a tym samym na jego cykl decyzyjny.

W najnowszej infografice przedstawiamy zdolności operacyjne, które mogą zostać zintegrowane jako działania informacyjne (INFO OPS) według narodowych i sojuszniczych doktryn NATO -> disinfodigest.pl/infografiki/

👇️ Innocuous memes — Online influencing tricks for fun and profit?

⚠️ It's supposed to be funny, but the false dichotomy created for this setup deliberately makes the IRS "the baddie to be done away with".

For the dumber and angrier percentiles in a population, these kinds of cumulative suggestions matter when an angry maga-gop trumptard firebrand rails against the IRS as a "weapon of wokeness...". 🔥

Remember those woke antichrists who plotted to take away your gawdly breakfast in the name of the D.C. swamp taxmen!!?? 🔥

And they were trying to manipulate *polls* to force their evil ways!! We don't need no steenkin' fake elections!! This maga-gop trumptard guy will sort 'em out once in power!! 🔥

Anyhoo... look at the options again and tell without which options the *society* can function for a year? For ten years...? 🤔

Bonus points for the skull-avatared 'viral online pollster' for including the meat-as-god-given-right vs ... taxes as subcontext. You will get the meat entitlement confrontation in the replies to help widen divisions.

PS. I don't know the poster, or creator if different, and have zero insight into whether this particular meme was purpose-made or just #serendipity. I am merely pointing out how things can work out with certain segment of viewership...

#influencing #InfoOps #antiestablishment #maga #trump #insurgency #altright #farright #woke #wokeness