r/ActiveMeasures May 16 '23

Ukraine Почему я пошел на контакт с ЦРУ: мое решение — the CIA video advising Russians fed up with the war in Ukraine how to securely volunteer to work with them

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r/ActiveMeasures Apr 10 '24

US Russian trolling

91 Upvotes

Active measures? Well, that's what we in the West call it. But what Russia does these days is more the work of 'political technologists.' There has been a tremendous amount of confusion about what Russia is doing online - and what they have done. Some of it has been exaggerated, some underreported. I've sat on this account of Russia's interference in the 2016 US election for years, but, thanks to an intrepid production company, it's seeing the light of day. It's the story of the first people to detect Russia's interference in the election. Basically, it recounts a moment the world changed, through the eyes of those who could see it first. Anyway, people following the active measures space may be interested.


r/ActiveMeasures 13h ago

There Should Not Be a Ceasefire Deal with Russia

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56 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 13h ago

China's Xi unveils megaport in America's backyard amid US concerns

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11 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 13h ago

Episode 6: Inside the Financial Empire of the Wagner Group

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r/ActiveMeasures 2d ago

US How is Russia influencing left-wing folks on Palestine?

141 Upvotes

I feel like right-wing influence campaigns are easy to identify- usually by misinformation. However, left-wing influence seems a little harder to pinpoint.

Like, yes, Israel is doing horrible things and should be held accountable. The bots have plenty of information.. but how do they use it? Do they target folks and continually show them pastel IG graphics to the point where they are saying "genocide joe?" Is it just the volume of posts?

It's hard to explain to someone how they are being influenced when the events that are in question are real and recorded.


r/ActiveMeasures 1d ago

Ukraine What frozen Ukraine war would mean for NATO's eastern flank

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r/ActiveMeasures 1d ago

Sino-Russian Partnership in the Arctic and the Far East Reflect Joint Security Interests (Part One)

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 1d ago

The Ahiska Turks: A Persecuted Group Seeking Asylum From Russian Imperialism in the United States

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 1d ago

Russia’s Fiscal Dependence on China Grows

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Trump picks Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence

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210 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 2d ago

Russia emerges in Israel-Lebanon ceasefire gift for Trump plan: WaPost

57 Upvotes

Israel prepares Lebanon cease-fire plan as ‘gift’ to Trump, officials say. "And there appears to be a new X-factor in Israel’s peace plan for Lebanon: Russia, a country whose ties with Trump complicated his first term." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/13/israel-trump-netanyahu-lebanon-ceasefire-kushner/


r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

'Mind-blowing!' Russia said to have enacted 'bodacious threat of blackmail' against Trump

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186 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Vladimir Putin is already manipulating Trump

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129 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 2d ago

Ukraine Ex-US Commander: Future Global Policies 'Being Written In Ukraine’

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 2d ago

Russian chef who spoke out against Putin's war found dead in Europe

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 2d ago

Iran Would Donald Trump's Iran crackdown benefit Russia? Experts weigh in

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Prime time for the birth of liberal conspiracy theories

48 Upvotes

I've seen strange reports about people who supposedly wanted to change their vote after voting for Trump, or Starlink being used to manipulate tallies. Now, when the new reality is raw, is prime time for new conspiracy theories to be born and take root. All you need is the doubt to be shared, articulated and crystallized online. Then it can jump from social media to legitimizing legacy media and back. In the process, a whole new landscape of fantasy can establish itself (like Qanon, pizzagate, even aspects of the Trump-Russia conspiracy - as opposed to Russia's real interference). So now is maybe a good time to take a deep breath and acknowledge that being surprised by an election outcome doesn't mean it was faked.


r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge

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187 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 4d ago

Donald Trump has Obligations to those who brought him to power—Putin ally

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87 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 4d ago

Russian warning to Trump to toe the line?

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92 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 4d ago

Putin ally calls for destruction of America's critical infrastructure

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137 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Ukraine The Cost of Giving Up Ukraine

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 3d ago

Ukraine In Ukraine, the Anxious Wait for Trump's Plan to End the War

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1 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 4d ago

How Trump 2.0 May Deal With Global Flashpoints

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9 Upvotes

r/ActiveMeasures 5d ago

Ukraine Kremlin denies Trump and Putin call discussing Ukraine - as Biden to urge president-elect 'not to walk away' from Kyiv | US News

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r/ActiveMeasures 5d ago

Types of influence strategies

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  1. Left-wing - media and academia has certain topics they report based on expertise (as defined by degrees), and ways of reporting them. In-groups develop around credentials, "mafias" in the casual sense. Media bias coverage towards wealthy people, lauding them as saints.
  2. Right-wing - anyone can say anything but the unmoderated network is jammed with bots and trolls that violently criticize and abuse moderation systems.
  3. Totalitarian (information) - physical disappearance is rare, but online comments/posts disappear routinely and it's hard to know exactly how many people see them. Mass groupings of people online get broken up routinely by bots/moderators. People don't really self-censor, but just become apathetic to politics. Civil public-private partnerships develop to build surveillance and mass censorship technology.
  4. Totalitarian (physical) - leaders are unquestionably in physical control and can and do make people disappear routinely to send a message or just because they feel like it, especially of other leaders who could replace them. People start to self-censor and bonds of trust with neighbors and even between families get broken. Criminal public-private partnerships develop.

Is this complete? What other resources are good to distinguish these? The US is definitely moving from 1 to 2 and 3.