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Episode 233: Perception Management feat Ken Klippenstein

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Infrastructure designed to combat "disinformation" is expanding rapidly within the US government and intelligence agencies. But how do they define it in the first place? And how much transparency around their methods is the public granted? Our guest is Ken Klippenstein, journalist for the Intercept. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Ken Klippenstein: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein / https://kenklippenstein.substack.com / https://theintercept.com/staff/kenklippenstein/ QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. References https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/ https://theintercept.com/2023/05/05/foreign-malign-influence-center-disinformation/ https://theintercept.com/2023/05/17/pentagon-perception-management-office/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2021/10/08/performing-disinformation-a-muddled-history-and-its-consequences/ https://ia904509.us.archive.org/20/items/debord-disinformation/Debord-Disinformation.pdf

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0:00.0

Welcome listener to chapter 233 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Perception Management

0:22.0

episode.

0:23.0

As always we are your host Julian Fields and Travis View.

0:27.2

This week we are diving into the concept of disinformation here in the United States.

0:31.7

Specifically we'll be examining how government organizations, including the Pentagon and

0:35.4

various intelligence agencies, are rapidly building infrastructure with the stated purpose

0:40.0

of identifying and combating their definition of disinformation.

0:44.1

Our guest is Ken Clippenstein, a journalist for the Intercept who's written a series of

0:47.8

articles on various aspects of this really cool phenomenon happening here.

0:52.1

So Ken welcome back to the podcast, obviously not your first time.

0:56.4

So before we jump into all of that I hear Travis has some QAnon news for us.

1:00.4

Yeah, actually some really exciting stuff.

1:03.3

So newly released documents from the FBI provides us with some new information about how

1:08.1

that agency looked into QAnon.

1:10.8

The documents were obtained by the privately run declassified document repository of the

1:15.6

Black Vault through a FOIA request.

1:17.7

The FBI said that they had 43 pages that were relevant to the request but only 19 were

1:23.9

released.

1:24.9

And the rest were withheld supposedly because they pertained to records or information that

1:29.8

were compiled for law enforcement purposes in a release of which could reasonably be expected

1:34.1

to interfere with enforcement proceedings.

1:36.4

First of all, I find it a little hard to believe that the FBI only has 43 pages of documents

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