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The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast

The Pell Center at Salve Regina University

From the Pell Center at Salve Regina University and the creators of the Active Measures Newsletter, a weekly dive into the latest trends in political warfare, influence, and information campaigns.

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29:20

Sabotage and Active Measures

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/11/25

In their first episode back since election day 2024, Mark Jacobson and Jim Ludes take stock of the impact of foreign disinformation and generative AI in the U.S. election, turn their attention to various efforts to fight back, including for-profit companies and education, and then dive into the sabotage campaign Russia appears to be running across Europe, most recently taking the form of undersea cable cutting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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35:07

Election Week with Steven Lee Myers

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/11/04

Voting in the 2024 U.S. election concludes this week with a race still too close to call. Steven Lee Myers, correspondent for The New York Times, joins hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson for a discussion of the foreign and domestic disinformation plaguing American politics. Those attacks include a sustained Russian effort to cast doubt on the integrity of American democracy while both Russia and Iran look intent to stoke political dissension, and possibly even violence, in the period after election

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30:03

Democracy in the Crosshairs

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/10/21

On this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson discuss new reporting on disinformation targeting Spanish-language voters in the United States; anti-Semitic disinformation on the Spamouflage network; big trends in disinformation targeting Western Democracies, Russia undermining public health efforts in Africa, and what to make of EU election results and Moldova's referendum.The companion podcast to the Active Measures Newsletter No. 305.See

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35:05

Spamouflage with Jack Stubbs

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/10/07

Graphika Chief Intelligence Officer Jack Stubbs joins Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson for a discussion of the Spamouflage campaign and Graphika's most recent report "The #Americans." Stubbs explains Graphika's most recent reporting, the evolution in the network's tactics, and the fine-line between informing the public and needlessly doing the work of adversarial information warriors. In addition, Ludes and Jacobson unpack Thomas Rid's review of internal Russian documents, exposing the lies Russian

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33:15

"Stories Are Weapons" with Annalee Newitz

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/09/30

Best-selling author Annalee Newitz joins hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson for a discussion of Newitz's new book, Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. The discussion races from early cold warrior Paul Linebarger and his other life as a science-fiction author, to similarities between psyops and advertising, and the transfer of these technologies between military and civilian entities, culminating in a lengthy discussion of whether or not disarmament of munitions of the

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35:34

Synchronized Shifts

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/09/23

In this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson discuss the recent report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center documenting "synchronized shifts" in three consecutive U.S. presidential elections in which Russian assets sought to denigrate Democratic candidates within 90 days of election day. They then discuss a Tech Policy Press report on how the U.S. government struggles to counter these threats, before welcoming Paul Fagan, Director of Democracy Programs at

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32:28

Cats and Dogs

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/09/16

This week on the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, hosts Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson unpack the viral, dangerous misinformation about immigrants and family pets in Springfield, Ohio; take a look at the disinformation targeting Latino voters in Michigan; and discuss new reporting about the leader of RT, on the one hand, and, on the other, the effort by former U.S. Senator Gordon Humprhey to build a social media channel that speaks directly to the Russian people. All that and more as we celebrate

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33:58

A Five Alarm Fire

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/09/09

This week, New York Times reporter Julian E. Barnes joins Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson for an in-depth conversation of the multiple indictments announced late last week by the U.S. Department of Justice exposing the scheme by Russian state-media to funnel $10 million to American right-wing influencers peddling divisive and anti-Ukrainian messages to American audiences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:59

Unilateral Disarmament

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/08/26

This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson discuss the investigation of American citizens working for Russian state media; the potential of 'Green Cicada,' a newly identified AI-enabled network on X, to achieve strategic surprise in the information-space; legal and financial consequences for those using synthetic media in campaigns; Russia's likely use of "gendered disinformation" in the 2024 U.S. campaign; and the surrender of social media companies who were expected to police disinformation on their

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31:35

Sour Grapes

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/08/12

Special guest David Klepper, the intelligence reporter on the national security team for the Associate Press, joins Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson to discuss his recent reporting. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently briefed reporters on the actions of Russia, China, and Iran in the run up to the 2024 elections. Each has an interest--but each is approaching the election in their own way. In Russia's case, that includes the use of unwitting Americans to spread divisive

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30:16

The Usual Suspects

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/08/05

This week in the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson unpack why democratic elections continue to be the playground of autocratic malign influence; highlight the ODNI's recent assessment of threats to U.S. election security; examine Russia's hand in Venezuela's contested election, the far-right riots in the UK, and Israeli politics; and they take one last look (for now, at least) at how China sought to capitalize on the attempted assassination of former President Donald

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31:52

"The Untouchables" Strategy

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/07/29

On this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, Mark Jacobson and Jim Ludes discuss a strategy--seemingly inspired by the film "The Untouchables"--to counter Russia's hybrid attacks on the West. They then move on to the dynamic environment around the Olympics; the latest in efforts to counter the Doppelganger campaign; Russia's efforts to target Moldova's upcoming election; and efforts in Canada and across NATO to fight back more effectively. Companion podcast to the Active Measures Newsletter

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28:15

Everything Old

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2024/07/22

In this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson discuss two weeks of heavy news: leaked plans documenting Russia's propaganda campaign against the West; the way Russian sources depicted the 75th Anniversary NATO summit; a U.S. Department of Justice take down of nearly 1,000 sock-puppet accounts on social media; and the way the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was spun, both internationally and domestically.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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29:14

The Information Threat to NATO

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/07/08

NATO leaders meet in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the alliance amidst as hostile an information environment as the alliance has ever known. We break down what's at stake at the summit, recent reports of Russian efforts to target French elections and the up-coming Olympics, evidence of disinformation in the UK election, and what health-related misinformation teaches us about the need for institutional integrity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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35:11

Games

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/07/01

On this week's Active Measures Newsletter Podcast, we discuss explosive reporting from Reuters on a secret U.S. campaign in the Philippines to undermine the Chinese vaccine at the height of the COVID pandemic. We then turn to reporting from David Adam in Nature on the way bad information influences elections--it doesn't necessarily change opinions, but it might change behaviors. Finally, Dr. Joshua Foust of Syracuse University joins us to discuss U.S. government efforts to use video games to

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28:03

Sabotage

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/06/17

Across Europe, officials are tracking a spate of suspected sabotage--from GPS jamming in the Baltic to attacks on public infrastructure in Czechia--attacks believed to tie back to Russia. Meanwhile, a senior U.S. diplomat warns that most Americans don't appreciate just how much foreign disinformation they're consuming in their social media even while one of America's elite university's shuts down its Internet observatory--designed to study and educate about the threat.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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30:43

Persuade, Influence, and Change

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/06/10

Influence campaigns come in a lot of shapes and sizes. On the Korean peninsula, the back and forth between Soul and Pyongyang sees the North launching garbage balloons and the South responding with K-Pop. In Europe--awash in Russian disinformation as voters cast ballots to shape the European Parliament--the methods of influence are both old and novel. Ultimately, the center in European politics held, this time, but the far right saw substantial gains moving French President Manuel Macron to call

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30:34

"We're Doing Miserably."

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/06/03

The leaders of U.S. influence operations met at a conference in Florida recently and concluded the United States is not performing well in the face of Russian and Chinese efforts. Patrick Tucker, the science and technology editor at Defense One, discusses his reporting on that conclusion and the reasons why succeeding in this fight doesn't get the investment it deserves. We also review reporting on a former Florida sheriff's deputy now running a disinformation network with at least 160 fake news

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31:04

Capabilities and Intentions

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/05/20

The Carter Center and the McCain Institute highlight disinformation for hire in a new report; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tracks threats to America's elections and grapples with who will tell the American public when disinformation drops on the eve of an election; lessons from the Second World War; a new Russian campaign claiming the CIA is meddling in American elections; and reports of Russian sabotage in Western Europe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:08

Ops

The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast ·

2024/05/13

COPY COP--a Russia aligned disinformation network is using AI to generate content at scale with divisive and biased content. Meanwhile, the French report on PORTAL KOMBAT, a network of Russian content portals that now span Europe, countries in Africa and Asia, pushing pro-Russian narratives about the war in Ukraine. Simultaneously, Iran is running EMERALD DIVIDE to stoke societal divisions in Israel on everything from LGBTQ rights to the conflict with Hamas. Closer to home, Spanish-language

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