3. The New Faces of Influence — From Ex-Cops to Fake Journalists
Profiles of the people fronting the network: Dougan, Bartlett, Beeley, Reade, and more.
Not bots. Not trolls. Real names laundering state narratives.
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This series exposes the network—the people, platforms, and tactics behind a coordinated campaign to launder pro-Russian narratives into Western information spaces.
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Thanks for following this series on Writers of the Storm (Clemson, 2024).
Next: we’ll wrap it all up in one mega-thread.
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The #Disinformation Storm Has Names Behind It.
"This series traces the writers behind the disinfo storm: real names, real platforms, real networks."
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Disinformation doesn’t always wear a mask.
Sometimes it wears a name, a press pass, and a YouTube banner.
That’s what makes it persuasive.
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Next up:
Thread 3 — The New Faces of Influence: From Ex-Cops to Fake Journalists
We’ll look at the people fronting this operation—and why their personal stories are part of the message.
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Storm-1516 isn’t obvious.
It’s intentional.
And it’s built to hide in plain sight.
That’s what makes it dangerous.
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The lies change.
The names don’t.
Let’s start there.
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The Disinformation Storm Has Names Behind It.
Everyone’s watching the lies.
But few are watching the people who push them.
This series traces the writers behind the disinfo storm: real names, real platforms, real networks.
#WritersOfTheStorm #DisinformationNetwork
