«Jurors were told the boy had joined far-right groups on Telegram as early as 2023, and had researched a Newcastle synagogue […] In February last year, a Russian user, who was claiming to be the leader of The Base, urged the youth to take action […]»
#Russia #UK #terrorism #infOps #farRight
«The videos were posted by accounts with similar captions in quick succession, implying they are part of a coordinated campaign. The accounts that posted the clip were largely anonymised, with X's location tool showing they are based in the US and Africa.»
#Hungary #Russia #infOps #disinfo
«Clemson researchers linked the Guard’s latest disinformation campaign to a similar operation in 2024, when an Iranian network promoted Scottish independence narratives online. The current campaign reaches a wider audience on more platforms and targets more individual communities […]»
#Iran #infOps
«[…] Ukrainian athletes and visitors at this year's Winter Olympics have been targeted by a string of false accusations. These fake news reports and the way they have been spread bear all the hallmarks of the Russian disinformation campaign known as Operation Matryoshka.»
#Russia #infOps #disinfo
«X’s transparency feature labels 226 of the 289 accounts as either based in Iran or connecting via the Iran Android App. Of the accounts that do not say this, 37 say that they connected via the West Asia Android App, which is common for Iranian accounts.»
#Iran #infOps #astroturfing #protests #IRGC
As expected.
#Iran #infOps #astroturfing #Scotland #UK
A reminder that, while there is genuine political resistance in Iran, malevolent forces may seek to amplify and manoeuvre it to their benefit.
#Iran #infOps #IranProtests
FRI JAN/23: ⚛️🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 I will be presenting a webinar on online information disorder phenomena and tactics, and on investigation of these, for @secularstudents.bsky.social
🗓️ secularstudents.org/webinars/exp...
#OSINT #SOCMINT #infOps #mediaLit #socialMedia #platforms #disinfo #misinfo
«Disclosing origin alone paints an incomplete picture. Identifying an account’s location does not always tell you who directs or funds the account. For example, Russia has previously outsourced its attempts to influence Americans to operators in Ghana and Nigeria.»
#infops #Xitter #transparency
«A network of avatars, including a fake NGO and a phony online magazine, have amassed tens of thousands of followers and deceived a political party and journalists.»
#disinfo #inauthentic #astroturfing #Israel #infOps
«In a speech at the Foreign Office in London, Cooper said Britain and its allies face escalating “hybrid threats … designed to weaken critical national infrastructure, undermine our interests and interfere in our democracies.”»
#UK #infoWar #infOps #Russia #China #Kremlin #PRC
«On July 2, when Pu Su Dong shared a news article and wrote of how President Trump was mistreating U.S. allies, Anne Marie responded, “I wish South Korea would become a neutral country. It will develop for a long long time, Lee Jae-Myung is making this so.”»
#PRC #China #SouthKorea #FIMI #infOps
🧵 ▶️ Watch the recording here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
#infoWar #disinfo #UK #USA #Brasil #media #socialMedia #platforms #infOps #governance #law #infoThreats
Very concerning, especially if the network credibility snowballs up and its narrative origins are further obscured.
#PravdaNetwork #infOps #disinfo #infoWar #Kremlin #Russia #Wikipedia
Countering foreign manipulation and influence with adaptive strategic responses, broader global partnerships, and whole-society approaches, at the EU EEAS #LondonFIMIForum
#FIMI #EU #UK #Europe #infOps #natSec #infoWar
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
«Even before the strike on the prison, messages and videos were posted on X in that spirit after the war broke out. "Tehran is defenseless," one user wrote, while another suggested that people in the city should storm banks and withdraw their money.»
#Israel #Iran #infops #disinfo #war
🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 The British Computer Society has published my recent presentation for them in London, on my investigations of international influence operations and misinformation spread affecting the UK, and OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhH...
#disinfo #misinfo #infops #OSINT #SOCMINT #UK
«The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts - some masquerading as news outlets - which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova's population is just 2.4 million.»
#Moldova #elections #Russia #infops #EU
And very importantly, muster the tech infrastructure and skill sets needed to gather, archive, organise, and analyse the data, in an environment that is often ephemeral and disjoint. I described some of these in the final section of my post here.
#natsec #infops #disinfo #UK #tech #strategy
This is huge. And par for the course, given what happened during Trump 1.0. Only this time, the fox owns the hen house.
#disinfo #infops #USA #Xitter #socialMedia #politics #botnet #bots
MON SEP/15: 🇬🇧🕵️🧑💻🧑🏫 I'll be at wearebcs.bsky.social (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT) London, presenting observations from my infop/misinfo investigations, with OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
Details and registration (in-person or online) at www.bcs.org/events-calen...
#UK #infops #misinfo #OSINT #SOCMINT
〝Over a third of those profiles were identified as fake, indicating a substantial presence of inauthentic activity aimed at discrediting the Prime Minister and amplifying negative narratives.〞
#Norway #disinfo #infops #inauthentic #socialMedia
〝AI artefacts, duplicated visual styles, and stolen stock images were common. Bios often claimed to be NHS staff, socialists, or students […] but offering no verifiable details. […] Posts often appeared at regimented intervals, regardless of UK time zones.〞
#UK #Scotland #Iran #infops #disinfo
🇬🇧🧑💻🗯🗳 I just featured in a live stream at @nath-ormond.bsky.social’s channel “Digital Gnosis”, talking about influence operations, misinformation, propaganda, and strategies of political polarisation in the UK.
#infops #misinfo #propaganda #UK #politics #polarization #OSINT #SOCMINT #astroturfing
«Authoritarian regimes may use the disinformation weapon skillfully, but they must not forget that such systems are built on sustained deception—a model that may eventually rot from within.»
#disinfo #infops #propaganda #Russia #China #Europe #socialMedia
〝Knowing who sends funds to the digital advertising market, just like banks do with financial investments, can help limit the flow of dark money in digital advertising, where undisclosed sources funnel money into AdTech without oversight.〞
#darkMoney #infops #disinfo #AdTech #platforms #marketing
«The modus operandi of this account is eerily similar to that of the Sprinter network. The account publishes news by scraping news articles and AI-generated posts to amplify them. The account has changed its name a plethora of times since its creation in 2023.»
#disinfo #Belarus #infops #Russia
«The video, which featured the entertainment media outlet’s logo and branding, was eventually shown to be fake — but not before Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk shared the sham report to their millions of followers on X.»
#disinfo #Russia #Storm1679 #infops #platforms
