Special Emergency Edition: A (Shorter) Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns

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🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, March 31st, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held its first open hearing in its investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election on "Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns." The experts before the committee, including Eugene Rumer, Roy Godson, Clint Watts, Kevin Mandia, General Keith Alexander, and Thomas Rid, gave a useful rundown of the scope and mechanics of Russian influence. There's just one problem: their testimony ran five hours long. So once again, we've cut down the hearing to a snappy two hours, bringing you just the good parts.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:33.7	On the evening of 30 July 2016, my colleagues and I watch this RT and Sputnik news simultaneously
0:39.4	launch false stories of the US Airbase and Insularlyc Turkey being overrun by terrorists.
0:44.5	Within minutes, pro-russian social media aggregators and automated bots amplified this false
0:48.8	news story.
0:50.1	More than 4,000 tweets in the first 78 minutes after launching this false story.
0:55.2	Following back to the active measures accounts we'd tracked in the previous two years.
0:59.6	These previously identified accounts almost simultaneously appearing from different geographic
1:03.9	locations and communities amplified the fake news story in unison.
1:08.1	The hashtags pushed by these accounts were nuclear, media, Trump, Benghazi.
1:13.7	The most common words found in English speaking Twitter user profiles were God, military,
1:18.7	Trump, family, country, conservative, Christian, America, and constitution.
1:24.5	These accounts and their messages clearly sought to convince Americans a US military
1:28.1	base was being overrun in a terrorist attack.
1:30.5	I'm Quintit Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast April 5th, 2017.
1:37.5	On Friday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on disinformation,
1:41.9	a primer in Russian active measures and influence campaigns.
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