Manipulation Through Espionage and Information Warfare

Our intelligence community is sounding the alarm, so James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana react to the release of the final volume of the Senate Intel Committee’s Bipartisan Russia Report (01:08),  discuss the ongoing information warfare campaign being waged against Americans and the “Firehose of Falsehood” propaganda model as explained by the RAND Corporation (09:24), and speak on the 100 anniversary the 19th Amendment which prohibited gender based voting restrictions (50:12).

Material discussed:

Rubio Statement on Senate Intel Release of Volume 5 of Bipartisan Russia Report
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/rubio-statement-senate-intel-release-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report

Senate Intel Committee Releases Bipartisan Report on Russia’s Use of Social Media
https://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/senate-intel-committee-releases-bipartisan-report-on-russias-use-of-social-media-

The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

QAnon, the scarily popular pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/1/17253444/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory-4chan-explainer

Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/lifestyle/100-years-of-womens-suffrage-whats-changed/

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