Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Polish intelligence. The author’s evidence? Documents that he was shown, and allowed to copy, but not allowed to keep. In other words, the usual procedure for disseminating disinformation via credulous intermediaries. This will be a recurrent motif in the present work. 2 Rothberg died in 1992, well before Mr Speriglio released the memo that […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the still-classified archives of the government. But I seriously doubt it. I can tell you for a fact that our democracy is suffocating under an avalanche of disinformation. Trump won the 2020 election! Covid vaccines are seeded with microchips! Democrats are blood-sucking pedophile communists! 9/11 was an inside job! Our body politic is being […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] extracted from the Foreign Office the information that the source of this allegation had been a tiny local paper in Southern Germany. Here is a recognisable IRD disinformation operation: not white, not grey, but black propaganda. IRD source plants false story in small outlet – perhaps using a press agency of some kind; perhaps […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] that the Russians and/or Cubans were involved.’ 2 The authors of the piece – anonymously credited as being ‘WhoWhatWhy staff’ – declare that the Politico story is disinformation. In doing this they quote the Webster’s dictionary definition of ‘disinformation’: ‘false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order […]