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Christoph Deppe

🔎 FIMI is both narrower and broader than traditional disinfo concepts.

❌ Narrower: It only applies to foreign actors—domestic disinformation is excluded.
✅ Broader: It doesn’t require false information—manipulative tactics alone are enough.

This behavior-based focus aligns with EU strategic needs, but makes it harder for science to systematically study what qualifies as FIMI and how to measure it.

#InfluenceOperations#HybridWarfare
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Christoph Deppe

3/10 📌 FIMI, Cognitive Warfare & Hybrid Threats—how do they differ?

🛰️ FIMI: Tactical manipulation of the information space—often used by foreign actors (e.g., Russia, China) to mislead, polarize, or destabilize.

🧠 Cognitive Warfare: Long-term strategy targeting how people think, process info & form beliefs.

⚔️ Hybrid Threats: Disinfo is one tool in a broader toolkit—including cyber, military, economic coercion.

#InfluenceOperations#PsyOps#NatSec
Troed Sångberg

I think there's a general need for education regarding influence operations (and my focus is on those by Russia) here on the fediverse.

1) No, Russia isn't just pushing right-wing agendas/topics. The _stated_ purpose, from 1997 IIRC, is to sow division in the west. That means that there's roughly an equal chance that a raging leftwing lunatic is on Russia's payroll as your average Tate-Musk-Trump-Orban-Fico fanatic.

2) "Doomism" is a goal. The more we are complaining on how bad things are - the more successful they are. A great way to counter these influence operations is to talk about how _good_ things are. Because there's plenty of awesomeness in our society (I'm not from the US - that's a global perspective) to share.

3) These operations are _long term_. The troll factories aren't just newly created accounts spamming out the same message everywhere. That online magazine that has published for 10 years could be a sleeper influence operation. A person _living in Germany_ spending time online just as anybody else could too.

4) You're getting influenced. Basic psychology says you cannot avoid it (the anchoring effect). The only thing you can do is to be aware of it, and actively working against the very goals of the influence operations.

Remember what those were now again?

#InfluenceOperations#Russia#MAGA
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Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺

First reader reviews coming in: Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry get's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ praising its insights into the business behind #influenceoperations, global reach of the case studies & our new concept. The reader said it's "clearly a book that belongs on any university-level course that touches on the nature of online influence" but "You don't have to be at a university to enjoy it" 😃 - read more: amzn.eu/d/apJZLBK #propaganda #socialmedis #disinformation @potemkinvillage

www.amazon.co.ukCheck out this Amazon review of Routledge Handbook of the Influence IndustryThe who, what, when, where, how and why of the Influence Industry
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Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺

Excited to see my new #book coedited with Vian Bakir out on Google Books already! Check it out here if you are interested in how #disinformation #propaganda #influenceoperations #PR #DarkPR #influence #socialmedia #data and #AI are transforming our world: books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q2 @potemkinvillage

Google BooksRoutledge Handbook of the Influence IndustryThis Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-driven persuasive practices has been linked to the spread of misleading content in domestic and foreign influence campaigns. This has prompted worldwide public and policy discussions about disinformation and how to curb its spread. However, less attention has been paid to the increasingly data-driven commercial industry taking advantage of the opportunities these new technologies afford. The handbook uses the term ‘influence’ here to include not only messaging and public relations (PR), which fell within the traditional focus of propaganda studies, but to consider the infrastructure and actors behind an advanced array of capabilities that can be used in a coordinated way to affect an audience’s emotions, ideas and behaviors in order to advance a state or non-state actor’s objectives – increasingly based on data-driven profiling. The volume fills a gap in scholarship exploring the recent technical, political and economic development of this industry, surveying the extent of different technologies and services offered to clients worldwide across multiple domains (commercial, political, national security and government). The chapters are divided into three thematic sections and evaluate Influence Industry practices, aims and effectiveness across audiences; business practices and economics; and democratic structures and human rights. They also offer advice for researchers and consider key ethical issues and new regulatory approaches.This volume will be of much interest to students of political science, propaganda studies, sociology, communication studies and journalism.
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Nonilex

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

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Nonilex

In recent days, #intelligence agencies have warned that #Russia has found better ways to hide its #InfluenceOperations, & Treasury issued #sanctions last week against 2 Russian companies that it said supported the Kremlin’s campaign.

The stepped-up ops, run by aides to #Putin & Russian #military intelligence, come at a critical moment in the debate in the #UnitedStates over support for #Ukraine.…

#NationalSecurity#disinformation#influence
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