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A reality we all need to wake up to. We’re living in an information war that’s only going to accelerate. 🇨🇳,🇷🇺 & the political right, along with other malign actors, are waging this war. 🇨🇦 has a naive, gullible &/or complicit #cdnmedia that far too often, falls for #InfoOps. 
Link to the NYT article nytimes.com/2023/02/07/tec….
Or a reprint (not paywalled) japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/0…
Or a reprint (not paywalled) japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/0…
The AI technology is only going to become more sophisticated. The West is failing to recognize & keep up with the mass scale manipulation & information warfare threatening democracies around the world. #cdnpoli #InfoOps #CdnNatSec
[#WagnerGroup ] Rapport de @Google et @Microsoft sur les #cyber attaques et #infoops de la #Russie en #Ukraine. La galaxie #Prigozhin citée sous son vieux nom IRA y est responsable de plus 1000 attaques informationnelles
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814 "take-downs" ont eu lieu sur les produits Google utilisés par l'IRA #WagnerGroup pour pousser des narratifs pro russes sur Poutine, l'invasion de 2014, le groupe Wagner et anti-ukrainiens: occident, politiques ukrainiens, la gestion du covid par l'Ukraine
L'effort de #Prigozhin sur l'#Ukraine est auprès des populations russes avec la création de faux sites pour glorifier les soldats russes, le groupe Wagner et l'effort de guerre mais aussi des sites de publicité pour relayer massivement son film sur la guerre en #Ukraine
I’ve always believed that one of the greatest benefits that Twitter provides to foreign influence operations like Russia in 2016 is “narrative seeding” & pushing the narrative needle among journalists & social media influencers. #osint #RussiaGate #MuellerReport #disinfo #infosec
NYU @CSMaP_NYU and its authors are also trying to push back on the right-wing narrative that continues to be ubiquitous in RW circles that the Kremlin’s efforts at interfering with our 2016 elections had no effect. The the narrow scope of their research did NOT conclude that
Even yesterday on multiple large right-wing Twitter spaces the NYU study was being touted as proof Russian interference in our election in 2016 was a hoax…their #RussiaGate. A narrative that they have pushed for yrs despite overwhelming evidence from #MuellerReport & researchers
Rosalie is more kind to this study than I will likely be (still reading it). But her assessment is spot on. The questions they asked & tools they used gave them an answer. Problem is its not definitive & doesn't advance our understanding of whether foreign influence #InfoOps work
For example I could argue, with lots of empirical data, that the attitudes of Republicans towards NATO and Putin / Russia HAVE absolutely shifted significantly towards the Kremlin's favor ..exactly as the Kremlin has wanted. Neither of these narratives were looked at in the study
Trying to determine effectiveness within the aggregate of the whole social mediasphere is of course going 2b extremely difficult. Like with some effective cyber attacks u flood the zone (white noise) so that the very small very significant target actions are nearly imperceptible
As 2022 comes to a close, here’s a brief #cdnpoli year in review. In January/22 we saw the launch of a destabilization op (that just *happened* to coincide with the lead up to Putin’s attack on #Ukraine). #FreeDumbConvoy #FluTruxKlan
#FluTruxKlan #FreeDumbConvoy was pushed hard by multiple malign players & boosted by inauthentic activity, including by foreign threat actors. #Cdnpoli #CdnpoliYearInReview #goodbye2022
Feb/22 #NevrePoilievre officially launched his “prime minister” bid using #FluTruxKlan op, even though we’d just had an election months earlier & O’Toole was still #CPCldr.
#Cdnpoli #CdnpoliYearInReview #goodbye2022
#Cdnpoli #CdnpoliYearInReview #goodbye2022
This report from @OttawaPolice is not an intelligence report. It is a propaganda report. Shocking in its bias, faulty information, logically fallacious, willful blindness & a rank inability to assess the situation. #EmergenciesActInquiry #CdnNatSec publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/exhibits…
A word or two about Srgt Chris Kiez who has since deleted/cleaned up his LinkedIn & social media. Even the Reddit post about him has been removed. Thankfully @CyKoore saved a bunch. #EmergenciesActInquiry #OttawaOccupation #OttawaPolice #FluTruxKlan
Some screenshots of Sgt Chris Kiez’s posts from @Leenintome2. #EmergenciesActInquiry @OttawaPolice #cdnpoli
I continue to make my way through #POEC #EmergencyActInquiry. publicorderemergencycommission.ca/public-hearings
I am continuously struck by the normalization of an act of extremism based on #InfoOps radicalizing those on the right (& some on the left). Taking some legitimate grievances & weaponizing them.
I am continuously struck by the normalization of an act of extremism based on #InfoOps radicalizing those on the right (& some on the left). Taking some legitimate grievances & weaponizing them.
If a large group of non-white people with 400 large rigs, shut down the core of the nation’s capital, continuously blaring deafening air horns, amassing containers of fuel alongside open flames & fireworks, endangering children present, harming residents….
#EmergencyActInquiry
#EmergencyActInquiry
…getting #ConvoyFinancing for their op from foreign extremists like far right Republicans. Shutting down major border crossings costing billions in losses, engaging in conspiracies to, at the very LEAST, sabotage the workings of gov’t, providing fodder to foreign adversaries…
The lies told by #Conservatives & a supine #CdnMediaFailed around the #EmergenciesAct, is appalling on every level. Not only did virtually all #CPC MPs support an #InfoOps & destabilization operation against 🇨🇦, many were key participants. The EA was necessary as a direct 1/2
…of provincial & municipal failures, in addition to the failure of local & provincial policing.
I would also love to know what information was shared between @csiscanada, @FINTRAC_Canada & @OttawaPolice, #OPP @RCMPAlberta & @rcmpmb.
#NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli
I would also love to know what information was shared between @csiscanada, @FINTRAC_Canada & @OttawaPolice, #OPP @RCMPAlberta & @rcmpmb.
#NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli
*result (a direct result, that should have said)
Absolutely chilling. Key members of #CPC, esp Pierre Polievre, participated in a destabilization operation against 🇨🇦. Mike Flynn was also part of #FluTruxKlan. This is/was an op meant to undermine the legitimacy of 🇨🇦’s gov’t. This op continues using #PsyOps & #InfoOps. #cdnpoli
From coordinated behaviour to trend anti-Trudeau hashtags to propaganda offensives in #cdnmedia, to online radicalization in Facebook groups, to targeting religious groups, these coordinated ops are attacks on 🇨🇦. Supporting them should be disqualifying for holding public office.
I’ll also add, it goes without saying this study conducted by Flynn & colleagues, looks like a blueprint for (among other disinfo ops) the election denier movement to convince people Biden isn’t the lawfully elected president. (See import work by Robert Pape & @CPOST_UChicago).
Single moms in their 30s of 5 and 6 kids, sure have a suspicious amount of time on their hands. 🤔
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou #NevrePoilievre #cdnpoli
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou #NevrePoilievre #cdnpoli
We’re witnessing a troll tsunami on Twitter right now. #CoupTruxKlan was #InfoOps & IMO the troll networks developed leading up to that operation have been continuously amassing real world anti-vaxxers in order to weaponize them. I also believe there are simultaneous parallel ops
The troll swarming I’ve experienced the past few days, for calling out one of these networks, just underscores for me that @TwitterSafety needs to address this incredibly serious problem. I’m attaching a snapshot of just a fraction of the troll accounts in a couple of networks.
Take this account, for example. It tweets anti-Trudeau propaganda especially the likes of #TrueNorthCentre. The profile was lifted from a soft core site.
The account start date is 2012, however (see next tweet) this was an abandoned account taken over & used for disinfo #cdnpoli
The account start date is 2012, however (see next tweet) this was an abandoned account taken over & used for disinfo #cdnpoli
1. I outed a troll network 2 days ago &, as has happened every time I’ve outed one of these networks, I got swarmed by a barrage of troll accounts. Including ones that began “following me”. I examined 50 of these accounts (so far) & here is what they had in common…#cdnpoli
2. All 50 had anti-vax/covid disinformation, Anti-Trudeau propaganda, pro #NevrePoilievre, anti-Biden or anti-Democrat propaganda.
48 accounts, of the tweets I examined, had climate change denial & 46 had pro-Kremlin anti-Ukraine talking points.
#cdnpoli #InfoOps
48 accounts, of the tweets I examined, had climate change denial & 46 had pro-Kremlin anti-Ukraine talking points.
#cdnpoli #InfoOps
3. As I was saying. 🙄
Wow, @donie wasn't kidding. This really is a fascinating indictment from the DOJ. Russian FSB having proxy control and influence over three political groups in the US since at least 2014. This is going to be a fun one to watch play out. #disinfo #InfoOps justice.gov/opa/pr/russian…
Well US group 1 is rather obvious. I remember a number of yrs ago I was told they were infiltrated & a Kremlin proxy group and I didn't fully believe it at the time. Over the yrs its become obvious and really clear more recently with their propaganda around the Russian invasion.
If I am correct ... they are obnoxiously anti-war ... except when Russia is involved. Others appear to be naming and shaming ... like US Group 2 apparently IDed by @bellingcat
When I saw scores of domestic & foreign adversary (including Kremlin linked) troll network accounts pushing #DutchFarmer op, I wondered, like the way #FluTruxKlan used 🇨🇦 as an op launching pad, if Netherlands were being used as a similar launching pad. Now enter this…#CdnNatSec
🧵 from February on this subject. #FluTruxKlan is & has always been an op. It was a destabilization operation that just *happened* to coincide with the lead up to #UkraineInvasion. Not a coincidence. There is a global autocracy project to topple democracy. #cdnNatSec #cdnpoli
Some added info here:
Some more on #TUPOC or TUPC, aka “United People of Canada”. ICYMI see attached thread.
Their attempts to pretend they aren’t related to #FreeDumbConvoy are as empty as the meaningless marketing speak on their website. Tamara Lich’s husband Dwayne has been involved since the start
Their attempts to pretend they aren’t related to #FreeDumbConvoy are as empty as the meaningless marketing speak on their website. Tamara Lich’s husband Dwayne has been involved since the start
Dwayne Lich posts about TUPOC a lot. “The United People of Canada” sure had lots of💰right from the jump. It was registered on March 24/22 & had merch + an expensive heritage property (#StBrigids in #Ottawa - the former church was also the site of #PMJT’s confirmation as a child)
This fascist “movement” has hijacked our flag, hijacked #CanadaDay2022, trampled the FREEDOMS of others to enjoy 🇨🇦 Day at the nation’s capital. Hijacked peace & normal life of Ottawa residents & cost businesses. Fuck these Brownshirts & all who enable them. #cdnpoli #ottnews
Many Trump/#January6th supporters, have come as tourists to participate in this op. Right wing circles have exchanged plans to camp at KOA grounds all summer in an attempt to sabotage & disrupt 🇨🇦’s democratically elected gov’t with the full seditious participation of #CPC.
Remember the weaponization of Canada’s flag the last time? This is straight out of the fascist playbook.
#Freedumbers #FluTruxKlan #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou #cdnpoli #CanadaDay #StopTheCPC
#Freedumbers #FluTruxKlan #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou #cdnpoli #CanadaDay #StopTheCPC
The chaos agents like zei_squirrel sure have their talking points down pat. They never miss a trending topic opportunity like “Jill Stein” and overturning Roe vs Wade to drop in a molotov cocktail. #InfoOps #disinfo
The point with these troll accounts … they dont want you to vote … or they want you to throw away your vote. Plain and as simple as that.
So a few issues with videos the Kremlin are claiming was a Kinzhal hypersonic missile strike in #Ukraine. 1st the missile apparently flew under this pole 😂 on the way to its target. Second the missile goes MACH10 so according to timing of this video across the horizon ..MACH 3-5
And this video put out by the Russian MoD has already been completely disproven as being the Kinzhal hypersonic missile strike. It is something entirely different according to this analysis. #OSINT #disinfo
And what will come as a shock to no one .. the #OSINT community has already sourced the fake Kinzhal video put out by the Russian MoD earlier today as an entirely different video from TikTok back at the end of February. #InfoOps #disinfo #propaganda
Seit dem Truppenaufmarsch Ende letzten Jahres, habe ich misstrauisch auf die zahlreichen TikTok-Videos der Truppenbewegungen geschielt. Damals ergaben sie für mich Sinn: Um Druck aufzubauen, Bedrohung zu schaffen und die Gerüchteküche anzuheizen inews.co.uk/news/tiktok-po…
Doch irgendwann - bei mir war es Ende Januar - fingen die immergleichen Videos an zu langweilen. Noch ein Zug und noch einer. Ihre Wirkung lies nach. Ob 120.000 Truppen? Oder 150.000? Für die vermeintliche Verhandlungs-Drohkulisse eigentlich egal, oder? nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1…
Gespannt habe ich also auf die nächste Phase der #InfoOps gewartet, ohne zu ahnen was passieren würde.
Dann kamen die Amerikaner. Und die Engländer. Und die Ukrainer…
Dann kamen die Amerikaner. Und die Engländer. Und die Ukrainer…
I said this yesterday & I’ll reiterate. The groups behind this op WANT strong-arm tactics. They’ve been saying 🇨🇦 is “an authoritarian country”. They’ve been telegraphing how they’ll play this. Toxic “Rebel” disinformationists accidentally reveal what their aims are. #FluTruxClan
The backers of this op & their chaos agents, want a giant propaganda opportunity by having the military haul off their Brownshirt shock troops, oops I mean, salt of the earth, give you the shirt off their backs “truckers”.
#InfoOps #cdnpoli @JustinTrudeau #FluTruxKlan
#InfoOps #cdnpoli @JustinTrudeau #FluTruxKlan
A better strategy (although slower), would be handing out mounting & accumulating fines. Towing vehicles, insurance companies canceling their insurance, citizens boycotting businesses that donated, making politicians like Poilievre & Bergen wear what their seditious acts #cdnpoli
Okay apparently a troll group called #RamRanchResistance has infiltrated the largest Windsor Trucking Protest channel on Zello called "Convoy for our Freedom Windsor". Had thousands of members. Insider initiated some kind of algorithmic attack #WindsorBlockade #freedomconvoy
That was unbelievable to watch. All day this admin on the "Convoy for our Freedom Windsor" called Medicczar tried 2 talk sense into rabid "anti-vaxxers", "anti-mandate" Canadians & frankly what seemed like alot of Sovereign Citizen Americans who had no skin in the game really.
At some point just over an hour ago things totally went off the rails & dozens of new accnts all starting with "BigTruckxxxxx" & ending with random numbers in letters where the x's are, starting appearing almost every sec. Mods tried 2 block but the channel was eventually overrun
Pierre Poilievre worked to oust #ErinOToole just as a large scale info-ops attack is launched in 🇨🇦. Now Poilievre says he’s “running for Prime Minister of 🇨🇦”. He hasn’t even won #CPC leadership, yet foreign troll farms are retweeting him en masse. None of this is coincidental.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ‘MANDATES’.
This is about establishing a RW insurgency.
#FluTruxKlan #DomesticTerrorists #BorderCrisis #cdnpoli
This is about establishing a RW insurgency.
#FluTruxKlan #DomesticTerrorists #BorderCrisis #cdnpoli
Look at who the players are, promoting this #RollingInsurrection. I can only attach 4 pics at a time, so I’ll include a bunch in the 🧵.
#FluTruxKlan #OttawaOccupation #InfoOps #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
#FluTruxKlan #OttawaOccupation #InfoOps #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
How do you know #TruckersForFreedom is an op as well as a grift? Because of the scores of troll network accounts, followed by troll farm accounts, posting fake pictures, endlessly promoting this operation. Who’s behind these troll networks? #KochNetwork #CEC #CanadaProud #GRU?
How you know #TruckersForFreedom is a con & an op part 2. #Conservative politicians are using this lie to data mine with fake “petitions” while they pump out disinformation & fundraise off it. Gratuitous lying like from Melissa Lantsman. #RageFarming #NeverVoteConservative
#TruckersForFreedom grift & op part 3.
I’ve now lost count of all the pictures & videos taken from other countries & other times claiming to be a convoy in 🇨🇦. Like this one. Claiming a video of a backed up highway at rush hour is a ‘massive convoy against vaccine mandates’ 🙄.
I’ve now lost count of all the pictures & videos taken from other countries & other times claiming to be a convoy in 🇨🇦. Like this one. Claiming a video of a backed up highway at rush hour is a ‘massive convoy against vaccine mandates’ 🙄.
