[PDF file]: […] from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes […]
[…] is presently constructed – ceases to exist. Until these two things happen, people who have spent most of their careers trying to detect Western covert ops and disinformation will continue to view events there with suspicion. In another profile of Higgins,56 Rob Hastings quotes him as saying: ‘We proved that the Syrian dictator Bashar […]
[PDF file]: […] letter, and Erickson’s response, to the FBI on 18 December 1963. See . 66 67 Grose (see note 23) p. 545 24 website devoted to fact-checking online disinformation, hoaxes, and rumours, set out to debunk the list once and for all. It didn’t succeed. Although the Snopes author tried his hardest, the attempted point-by-point […]
[PDF file]: […] available evidence, Mr Blake Knox’s analysis is factually mistaken. In Part II, I explain why such errors are symptomatic of a broader pattern of deliberate and sustained disinformation by Government agencies, designed to conceal wrongdoings of the past Loyalty, a much-misused term during the post-1968 Northern Irish ‘Troubles’, travels in two directions, upwards and […]
[…] from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to 1 The Gow memorandum can be read at . Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster […]
[PDF file]: […] trade unions, headed by someone who might be a Soviet stooge.10 Labour took office again in 1974 and there followed two years of talks of coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson’s retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party, […]
[…] The Consortium on Facebook to be told by that site that this was a ‘fake news’ source. Add that to the US government’s Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act and we can see the totalitarian, information-management future. That act: ‘…. mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense, Director […]
[…] European Union’s 2nd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: A Framework for Networked Defence.16 In other words, how do we cope with (mostly Russian) disinformation? This is not an easy read. Here’s a paragraph on p. 7. (Bold in the original.) In 2023, the defender community made significant ‘Finance firms gave […]
[PDF file]: […] is applied, covering documentary films, wartime dramas and even ‘swinging 60s’ material. Toward the end of the narrative, it expands to include the struggle against radicalisation and disinformation on the internet. But what do we mean by ‘propaganda’? According to the 1912 Concise Oxford Dictionary it was ‘efforts, schemes, principles of propagation (which is […]
[PDF file]: […] about Energy, Global Warming and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation.7 Evans ends by hoping that his book might contribute to helping combat ‘disinformation’. Good luck with that! * John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, […]
