Russian Propaganda, Explained [ML B-Side]

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

You may have heard of the cyber operations performed by Russia. You definitely heard about the missiles being fired by Russia at Ukraine - but how about the propaganda being distributed through the different media platforms?

In this B-Side episode, our Senior Producer Nate Nelson interviewed Dr. Bilyana Lilly - CISSP, a leader in cybersecurity and information warfare with over fifteen years of managerial, technical, and research experience, and author of "Russian Information Warfare" - about the Russian use of instant messaging and social media platforms such as Telegram and Twitter in their war efforts. Dr. Lilly discusses who they are targeting and the real-world impact their propaganda has on various populations.

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0:00.0	I basically show that there are spikes in the volume of strategic messaging from the Russian government
0:05.5	in the territories where they plan a particular attack just before the attack happens. Hi and welcome to Sabirism's malicious life besides I'm Gran Levy. It's a well-known fact that the Russian government is using propaganda and the dissemination of false information
0:45.8	as part of its war efforts against Ukraine.
0:49.1	Russia is also far from being the only country to use propaganda this way. Many countries have
0:55.1	done so in the past, including the United States of course. But according to our
0:59.7	guest in this episode, Dr. Biliana Lily, an expert on cyber and geopolitical risk and author of the book Russian
1:06.8	information warfare. Due to various historical reasons, the Russians have refined and perfected their propaganda techniques going as far as
1:15.9	integrating it as part of their cyber and kinetic attacks on Ukrainian cities. In this B-side episode, our senior producer Nate Nelson interviewed Dr. Lillie about the Russian
1:27.2	news of instant messaging and social media platforms such as telegram and Twitter in their war efforts.
1:34.0	Dr. Lillie discusses who they are targeting and the real world impact their
1:39.2	propaganda has on various populations. Enjoy the interview.
1:44.0	So in this conversation we're going to be focusing on Russian disinformation, which our listeners will be pretty familiar with by now.
1:55.9	We all know that Russia does this, but in your experience from what you've been exposed to, where do these methods that they use actually derived from?
2:07.3	Some of the very early usage of propaganda and disinformation that we know of are from, for example, during the Napoleonic
2:15.7	wars when Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, the Russian government actually set up
2:21.4	specific Russian military units that would print and
2:26.1	disseminate propaganda leaflets among the population the Russian population
2:31.3	but also the invading troops in order to erode the morale
2:35.8	and the will to fight of the invading forces and also to try to boost the morale of their
2:40.9	own forces. So we have those very early examples. Then we also have
2:45.6	very similar tactics being used around the 1917 Russian Revolution when the Bolsheviks used
2:52.4	also leaflets to spread propaganda and then
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