Information Operations, Then and Now
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our podcast on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Camille François, the chief innovation officer at Graphika, about a new report released by her team earlier this month on an apparent Russian influence operation aimed at so-called “alt-tech” platforms, like Gab and Parler. A group linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency “troll farm” has been posting far-right memes and content on these platforms over the last year. But how effective has their effort really been? What does the relatively small scale of the operation tell us about how foreign interference has changed in the last four years? Has the media’s—and the public’s—understanding of information operations caught up to that changing picture?
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | If you think about the 2020 campaigns, the first Russian information operation that we detected |
| 0:40.0 | that was targeting that electoral cycle was exposed in December 2019. |
| 0:46.3 | We worked with both CNN and Clemson University to detect it and it was targeting black audiences |
| 0:52.5 | in the US using an NGO in Ghana where most people who were handling the account did not |
| 0:58.8 | know anything about the operation. |
| 1:01.1 | That again is the same tactic that we see with those full media outlets and you know, |
| 1:05.5 | an ABCNP's data. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast June 24th, 2021. |
| 1:15.8 | Today we're bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our podcast on our online |
| 1:20.3 | information ecosystem. |
| 1:22.6 | This week, Evelyn Duac and I spoke with Camille Francois, the chief innovation officer at |
| 1:27.8 | Graphica, but a new report released by her team earlier this month on an apparent Russian |
| 1:33.7 | influence operation aimed at so-called alt-tech platforms like GAB and Parlor. |
| 1:39.9 | A group linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency troll farm has been posting far-right |
| 1:46.1 | names and content on these platforms over the last year, but how effective has their effort |
| 1:51.4 | really been? |
| 1:53.1 | What is the relatively small scale of the operation tell us about how foreign interference has changed |
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