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Next few posts have info from original Information Warfare thread that seemed especially useful. Also provides further info about the focus of the thread.

Excellent article on common techniques used to manipulate large groups (full text below)

"Media Manipulation of the Masses: How the Media Psychologically Manipulates"

https://psychcentral.com/blog/media-manipulation-of-the-masses-how-the-media-psychologically-manipulates/ 7/4/18

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Even though I have worked in academia for years and have enjoyed the benefits of helping learning minds to expand their horizons, I have had one gnawing concern. Learning institutions typically help students, at best, to make a living but they fail miserably at teaching how to live life. These areas pertain to the realm of accumulated wisdom. Of course, wisdom presupposes knowledge, that is, the correct and consistent application of knowledge as truth. As a behavioral professional and an academic, I wish institutions would teach practical things such as how media, government, religion, and even academia itself, can indoctrinate the masses. For the purpose of this article I will focus on the media (and a little on academia).

I can very much remember talking to journalism students and perusing their text books. I noticed the emphasis on “objective and balanced reporting.” I always laugh. Having been a student who used “qualitative methods of research” I knew very well how every bit of research made by any human being is always tainted at some level with some bias. I know some will have a cow at this but even quantum physicists tell us the same. In the media, even a well-intentioned journalist is affecting his message in some form.

I would like to focus on how the media can manipulate the masses through their message. You still see journalists reacting, “How dare you question me!” as if they belonged to some privileged priesthood directly connected to a Divine stream of ultimate truth.

I have endeavored to share just some of the tactics of psychological manipulation of mass thinking. Most reading this will easily recognize these. I don’t claim to provide an exhaustive list.

Guilt by Association

All that is necessary to destroy a person’s character publicly is to take that person and overtly or covertly associate them to something the masses will reject. Never mind if it is true or not, simply to question it or make the association is sufficient.

One example that comes to mind is a very clever twist I saw used by a famous newspaper. At the time, a political leader, greatly disliked by the editors of a newspaper, was portrayed in a very interesting way. They put an article and his photo strategically in very close proximity to a picture of a circus clown that was part of some other story. I thought to myself, “Now that tactic wins the prize!” It was very subtle and very subconscious in approach. The ultimate message was, “This person is a clown, therefore laugh at him and consider him non-credible like you would with a clown.”

Another very typical way of using this same tactic is to connect, even if it is through intricate stratagem, the person to some law-breaking, shady, person, organization, or action. Even if it is not true, it will leave a dark cloud of doubt in the mind of the person receiving the information. That is why slander is so effective in destroying enemies. The media will never come out and admit that they do this. They are accountable to no one, much like some sort of immaculate and narcissistic god.

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Stacking the Experts

Have you ever noticed on TV a panel of intellectuals, journalists, etc. are chosen carefully where it is in disproportion but still looks balanced? Sometimes it is outrageously blatant and sometimes it is covert. Let’s say we dislike a position but we cannot say so for fear of looking bigoted. We can handpick the majority of our experts that will agree with us. Then we bring only one person that represents the side we dislike. We unload the pit-bull dogs on that person, all the while we look “balanced.”

Ridicule and labeling

I am often amused at the interesting adjectives used by a proponent of one side against the other. We hear words like “racist,” “Nazi,” “?-phobe,” “pin-head,” “antiquated,” “irrelevant,” “killer,” and more. By applying these labels on that person, what happens is that you freeze, isolate, and polarize that person. You make them out to look like they are part of a dangerous, scary, and insane fringe. This process is otherwise known in history as “character assassination.” In this case, it happens in the public forum on full display. Have you ever noticed that if the same is applied to the media, it is considered blasphemy? Who makes the media accountable? No one. They are free to destroy anyone they choose. That is why they secretly fear the internet. The tables can be turned on them by some little guy behind a screen.

Repetition Makes True

Incessant repetition of a lie registers as truth in the mind of the masses. Mass hysteria can be created by repeatedly reporting the dangers of some microbe infesting humans and taking over the world in tones of panic. Some of the most successful tyrants in history used great emotion and repetition to their advantage. Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister said that if “You repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” This brings us to my next point.

Make the Devil Look Like God and God Like the Devil

Hitler himself said, “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” In this technique, the attacker makes himself look like a benefactor and savior. He twists the sides. Have you ever wondered why the media narcissistically loves to see themselves as the protectors and keepers of truth? It almost has religious indoctrination undertones, doesn’t it? In classical religious literature we are told that the Devil deceives and disguises himself as an angel of light. I call this, characteristically, the reversing of the poles by making black look like white and vice-versa.

Conclusion

I don’t claim to have covered all aspects of the art of deceit as used in the media. These are as old as man himself. I simply attempted to provide some of the more obvious typical forms of deceit used to psychologically manipulate the masses. What can we learn from this? Perhaps the biggest lesson could be that we must not be naïve.

We must discriminately keep awake and aware. We must be hungry for truth wherever we find it. We must protect it and defend it. We need to be careful to avoid coming to hasty conclusions just because the “experts” say it. It is, very much, an individual journey. It is a great quest but filled with minefields. Be careful and beware.

NEXT POST is the most recent report documenting MSM articles on Q done since 1-1-19. Previous reports were monthly (to establish a baseline); future reports will be done every other month (next will cover July-Aug 2019).

The bunker is dark. Me likey! Hello everyone. Good to be back. :)

And now we hold down the fort and keep a light on for the stragglers. :)

>>38440

Q #3436

CBSN report: "Tracking Disinformation on Social Media"

https://youtu.be/hRFHyBXEbhY

Just got a chance to listen to this CNET "expert" reporter Dan Patterson

Hilarious!

Anons have SO much info on this. And Dan has SO little.

Let's get specific, Dan's in green.

>We've been following bots

Nope--no evidence of bots, never has been, just a claim

>Conspiracies have exploded--like Ukraine being behind 2016 election hacking

>But actually, "it was Russia"

hahahaha....

>Qanon narrative, which is "related to the Qanon sub-Reddit"

whoops Dan--producer has to shout in his ear....no it's a message board

>or message board

>Related to Hunter Biden false narrative

Great! We'll get credit on this one....

>Also Pizzagate

Pizzagate was a year b4 Q

>Also conspiracies re HRC running in 2020

Since when is asking whether HRC will run a conspiracy?

>how do i know they're bots? i work with 'data scientists'

Ya mean Jonathan Morgan of New Knowledge?

That guy accused of Alabama election fuckery last Dec? Q 2635)

>i use dashboard from Securing Democracy Alliance

Ya mean bogus tool Hamilton 68?

And did you mean the Alliance for Security Democracy--ASD?

>Part of German Marshall Fund

Yep--we love ASD coz they got great folks like John Podesta on their Board

>GMF = "non-partisan" think tank

Yep--DS from both left & right

>how to counter the "domestic operations that are popping up"

>domestic ops like "2018" Alabama senate election

that's 2017, not 2018, Dan

But gosh--you are actually telling the truth: that the dems got caught influencing an election

It's our fren Jonathon Morgan, who also helped design fake tool Hamilton 68 w/ASD

a man of sterling character

>we can expect to see domestic disinfo operations pop up throughout 2020 election

TRUE. But does Dan realize he just said it will be the DEMS??

Anons dig a huge dig on last winter, Information Warfare archive has all the info: http://archive.fo/BbMxh

Chart shows some of what we found.

see also >>23087

from QRB:

>>38487

>The QAnon Anonymous podcast is quite shilly

It's more than just shilly--it's the center of a disinformation campaign run by Travis View, who just gave a presentation at a StratCom in early Nov. Not sure who is running the conference but probably the Soros-funded Atlantic Council. Supporters: Embassy of Sweden, Google, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, European Union, some dept in Lithuania (print tiny), and Lennar International.

Just went over the conference speaker list last night. Lots of DS heavy-hitters, from disinformation groups like the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, Graphika, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (has produced a major anti-Q report). People from NATO, the CFR, and Homeland Security (ex-Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen was keynote speaker--she's done events like this before). Travis View talked about the "Qanon conspiracy theory" there on a panel focusing on "example of misleading information."

http://stratcomdc.org/speakers/

TV is also good buddies with hotwheels; most anons know.

>>38493

StratCom Agenda 2018

can't find this online now

somehow popped up before

but many of the panels are on YT

one or two i included below

but there are more.

2018:

Beyond Europe: How Disinformation Campaigns Affect Democracies Globally

Interference in European Elections

Dark Forces: Exposing the Kremlin's Influence Operations

Click Bait!: Algorithms, Radicalization & the Fight for Our Attention

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Solving Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure

It's Human Nature: How Disinformation Exploits Emotions

Education: Building a Roadmap for Long-term Resilience

Media: Addressing the Information Ecosystem

Legal Frameworks to Address Influence Operations

Addressing Election Interference: Options Available to Govt's, Civil Society & the Private Sector

Addressing Disinformation: Options Available to Govt's, Civil Society, and the Private Sector

Addressing Corruption and Illicit Money Flows: Options

Available to Governments, Civil Society, and the Private Sector

Responding to Disinformation and Manipulation: First Heal Thyself

http://stratcomdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/StratCom-DC-Annotated-Agenda-1.pdf

Last year's titles are more revealing:

Dark Forces: Exposing the Kremlin's Influence Operations

Muh Russia panel

https://youtu.be/_bQrfVE1cuk

Click Bait!: Algorithms, Radicalization & the Fight for Our Attention

Radicalization always refer to the Right, not the Left

It's Human Nature: How Disinformation Exploits Emotions

Tavistock type tactics? Of course, they would only use them for good

Addressing Disinformation: Options Available to Govt's, Civil Society, and the Private Sector

https://mediaimpactfunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/EUR-US-Counter-Disinfo-Efforts.pdf

GREAT RESOURCE -- 28 page pdf listing all the orgs that deal with "disinformation"

(what they call disinformation is probably what we'd call information)

Civil Society is a Soros term (see Glenn Beck's Hydra div: https://youtu.be/si-vMj-FB88)

Captcha on QR is borked and has been for hours. Just testing over here.

Took 8 tries with the pre-captcha, but I made it.

Is this bread borked? Last update showing is mine ... from yesterday.

>>7553972 Banning Guns Will Not Make Schools Safe

notable

published today

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/banning-guns-will-not-make-schools-safe

Authored by James Bovard via The Future of Freedom Foundation,

School shootings have become the latest pretext for politicians to destroy the Second Amendment.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, declared in a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate,

“I was part of the first generation that saw routine school shootings. We have now produced the second school-shooting generation in this country. We dare not allow there to be a third.”

Another Democratic presidential candidate, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Cal.), invoked school shootings to justify confiscating millions of firearms across the nation:

“It’s not just the violence that they’ve caused; it’s the fear, the immeasurable fear that our children live in because they are still on our streets. I want to get rid of that fear.”

In reality, despite a tidal wave of misleading propaganda, the number of school shootings has fallen sharply over the past 30 years.

But anti-gun activists in government and the media have done their best to persuade people otherwise.

Last year, the federal Education Department reported that “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting” in the 2015-16 school year. National Public Radio investigated and found that the feds had exaggerated school shootings by twentyfold; NPR could confirm only 11 incidents. Cleveland was credited with 37 shooting incidents, when in reality it was simply a report of 37 schools that noted “possession of a knife or a firearm.” In DeKalb County, Georgia, “a toy cap gun fired on a school bus” counted as a school shooting. One school system was listed as a shooting locale for an incident involving a pair of scissors. NPR noted,

Most of the school leaders NPR reached had little idea of how shootings got recorded for their schools. For example, the [federal Civil Rights Data Collection] reports 26 shootings within the Ventura Unified School District in Southern California. “I think someone pushed the wrong button,” said Jeff Davis, an assistant superintendent there. The outgoing superintendent, Joe Richards, “has been here for almost 30 years and he doesn’t remember any shooting,” Davis added.

Even the leftist news site Vox noted, “The risk of a child getting killed by someone else at school in 2011, the last year for which there’s final data, was about 1 in 5 million.” Vox again: The rate of “serious violent victimization” among students — rape, sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault — was about 1 in 1,000 in 2011, down from 1 in 100 in 1995. In 1995, 10 percent of students were victims of some kind of crime at school; in 2011, just 4 percent were.” Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox observed, “We over-obsess about school shootings. Surveys show the majority of students are afraid there will be a mass shooting at their school. These are rare events — scary though they may be, tragic though they may — and we shouldn’t over-respond.”

Imitation shootings

But hard facts have proven no match for sustained hype for antigun activists.

Police and schools have responded to the new paranoia with an array of drills that have been lame-brained even by government standards.

Last January, numerous Indiana elementary school teachers were shot as part of a “safe schools” training program. According to the Indiana State Teachers Association, sheriffs’ deputies ordered teachers “into a room four at a time, told them to crouch down and then shot them execution-style with pellets in rapid succession,” leaving several of them bloodied and many of them screaming. The union complained, “The teachers were terrified, but were told not to tell anyone what happened. Teachers waiting outside that heard the screaming were brought into the room four at a time and the shooting process was repeated.” The union is “is lobbying lawmakers to add [legislative] language prohibiting teachers from being shot with any sort of ammunition” during school-safety drills, according to the Indianapolis News.

Schools are “increasingly turning their hallways into an imitation of a real mass shooting, complete with police officers firing BB guns and drama students enlisted to play victims, made up with fake blood and bullet holes. Occasionally, the drills are sprung on teachers and students without warning,” as a student newspaper in Great Neck, New York, observed. A Pennsylvania teacher commented that she was “more traumatized than trained” after teachers were shot with airsoft guns by a fake active shooter. “We had colleagues shooting colleagues, we had people getting hit with [plastic] pellets.… People were screaming, trying to run. People were tripping over each other. It was just horrendous,” Elizabeth Yanelli recalled.....

posted >>>/qresearch/7646184

Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation

by H. Michael Sweeney.

These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to comments on a blog.

1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don’t discuss it — especially if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it’s not reported, it didn’t happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.

2. Become incredulous and indignant. Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus on side issues which can be used show the topic as being critical of some otherwise sacrosanct group or theme. This is also known as the “How dare you!” gambit.

3. Create rumor mongers. Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations. Other derogatory terms mutually exclusive of truth may work as well. This method works especially well with a silent press, because the only way the public can learn of the facts are through such “arguable rumors”. If you can associate the material with the Internet, use this fact to certify it a “wild rumor” which can have no basis in fact.

4. Use a straw man. Find or create a seeming element of your opponent’s argument which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the opponent to look bad. Either make up an issue you may safely imply exists based on your interpretation of the opponent/opponent arguments/situation, or select the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Amplify their significance and destroy them in a way which appears to debunk all the charges, real and fabricated alike, while actually avoiding discussion of the real issues.

5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.

6. Hit and Run. In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream of new identities can be called upon without having to explain criticism reasoning — simply make an accusation or other attack, never discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for that would dignify the opponent’s viewpoint.

7. Question motives. Twist or amplify any fact which could so taken to imply that the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias. This avoids discussing issues and forces the accuser on the defensive.

8. Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough “jargon” and “minutiae” to illustrate you are “one who knows”, and simply say it isn’t so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.

9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues with denial they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.

10. Associate opponent charges with old news. A derivative of the straw man usually, in any large-scale matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can be or were already easily dealt with. Where it can be foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually them be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply being a rehash without need to address current issues — so much the better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.

11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the “high road” and “confess” with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, “just isn’t so.” Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later. Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for “coming clean” and “owning up” to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.

12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to loose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.

13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards with an apparent deductive logic in a way that forbears any actual material fact.

14. Demand complete solutions. Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime at hand completely, a ploy which works best for items qualifying for rule 10.

15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place.

16. Vanishing evidence and witnesses. If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won’t have to address the issue.

17. Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can “argue” with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena in order to avoid discussing more key issues.

18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.

19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs. This is perhaps a variant of the “play dumb” rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon). In order to completely avoid discussing issues may require you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.

20. False evidence. Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations as useful tools to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.

21. Call a Grand Jury, Special Prosecutor, or other empowered investigative body. Subvert the (process) to your benefit and effectively neutralize all sensitive issues without open discussion. Once convened, the evidence and testimony are required to be secret when properly handled. For instance, if you own the prosecuting attorney, it can insure a Grand Jury hears no useful evidence and that the evidence is sealed an unavailable to subsequent investigators. Once a favorable verdict (usually, this technique is applied to find the guilty innocent, but it can also be used to obtain charges when seeking to frame a victim) is achieved, the matter can be considered officially closed.

22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.

23. Create bigger distractions. If the above does not seem to be working to distract from sensitive issues, or to prevent unwanted media coverage of unstoppable events such as trials, create bigger news stories (or treat them as such) to distract the multitudes.

24. Silence critics. If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their death, arrest and detention, blackmail or destruction of their character by release of blackmail information, or merely by proper intimidation with blackmail or other threats.

25. Vanish. If you are a key holder of secrets or otherwise overly illuminated and you think the heat is getting too hot, to avoid the issues, vacate the kitchen.

>>40581

con't.

Graphika & ISD:

* My colleague put together a more complex version (again, see FusionGPS & Chris Steele)

* Another piece not yet incorporated: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)–anti-Q group that also has ties to DoD, European elites, Cali families, UN Agenda 21 (Strong Cities), and graphika (graphika is on the most complex chart–looks at "extremist hate speech" groups). Also did anti-Q study using Soros funding; Kelly Weill article Feb 2019.

#6343484

'''Search on Graphika & ISA turns up Melanie Smith; involved with both: Linked In

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-smith-digital

Experience

Graphika Inc.

Cyber Intelligence Analyst

Graphika Inc.

Apr 2018 – Present1 year 10 months

New York/Washington DC

ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

Research Fellow

ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)

Mar 2018 – Present1 year 11 months

London, United Kingdom

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)

Associate Fellow

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)

Jan 2014 – Present6 years 1 month

King's College London

from Graphika website:

John Kelly heads it.

Moar on Camille: https://graphika.com/in-the-media >> https://time.com/collection/time-100-next-2019/5718889/camille-francois/

by MARK WARNER: Her work for the committee showed how Russia and other adversaries continue to manipulate our social-media feeds and divide us as a nation. As we head into the 2020 election, we must learn from our past mistakes and heed the call of talented and prescient researchers like Camille François.

Warner, a Democrat, is the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

also:

Facebook: Russian trolls are back. And they're here to meddle with 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/tech/russia-instagram-accounts-2020-election/index.html

about how Russians are bldg accts on Instagram (owned by FB)

[looks like they are targeting conservatives by calling them Russians--as usual]

there is moar on Camille on this website.....

WSJ article on deep fakes involving C, scams affecting VETERANS....more on Graphika & anti-trump efforts.....and look what i found: an article from CBS on information warfare, SSCI, RAND, Graphika, ASD, Diresta, New Knowledge 8-1-18 (pre-NK scandal), Warner, John Kelly of Graphika, Laura Rosenberger of ASD

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intel-probes-experts-on-election-interference-amid-renewed-concerns-of-2018-live-stream/

This also turned up:

https://powerbase.info/index.php/Institute_for_Strategic_Dialogue

Digital Resilience:

ISD’s Digital Resilience project aims to help young people build resilience to extremist grooming and propaganda on social media, through the development and delivery of engaging educational workshops delivered in schools.[12]

[clearly sounds like conditioning]

They collaborate with Google.org to empower

civil society

ISD has collaborated with Google.org through the Google.org and ISD Innovation Fund (2017-2018) and the Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety (2019-2020).[19]

Graphika and far right: search terms yield this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-nukes-far-right-outfit-that-used-ai-to-power-its-propaganda

on DFRlab & epoch times take down

Graphika mentioned in the WAPO Dec 2018 article? NO

But this is a very good article to read for anyone interested in WAPO's propaganda effort:

Timberg, Craig; Eliz. Dwoskin, Tony Romm & Andrew Ba Tran https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/hateful-conspiracies-thrive-on-youtube-despite-pledge-to-clean-up-problematic-videos/2018/12/10/625730a8-f3f8-11e8-9240-e8028a62c722_story.html?utm_term=.99d85d24edcf

2018-12-10

DFRLab like speaking at conferences. In September, Andy Carvin, Senior Fellow, DFRLab @acarvin, was at ONA19. ONA stands for Online News Association. Website: https://ona19.journalists.org He presented two seminars and moderated one, and did a tabletalk for one. all thematic of disinformation. Here is a copyPasta of his events. 1/2

>[FEATURED] Global Strategies in the Fight Against Misinformation

Around the world, coordinated campaigns sharing false or misleading information have been targeting election cycles.

We've assembled an incredible group of global experts who have found successful strategies to quickly dispel misinformation, check facts and disseminate trustworthy information. They'll share more about their ground-breaking work, as well as suggestions on what to watch for in the coming elections in Canada, the United States and elsewhere.

This session is designed for:

Political reporters that may touch on election coverage worldwide

Newsroom leaders who want to get ahead of the curve as misinformation tactics are evolving rapidly

Anyone interested in one of the core political issues of our present era

<Speakers

>Michael Edison Hayden

Senior Investigative Reporter, Southern Poverty Law Center

@MichaelEHayden

>Hazel Baker

Global Head of UGC Newsgathering, Reuters News Agency

@HazelBakerNews

>Shalini Joshi

Specialist — Verification, PROTO/ ICFJ

@shalinimjoshii

>Tai Nalon

Director, Aos Fatos

@tainalon

<Moderator

>Andy Carvin

Senior Fellow, DFRLab

>From Fake Video to Twitter Bots: Tips & Tricks For Exposing Disinfo

Political campaigns are now taking place online and disinformation is increasingly a part of the information ecosystem. As newsrooms gear up for 2020 election coverage, they'll need to beef up their disinfo-spotting skills as well. When it comes to identifying fake video and social media bots, all it takes is a little practice.

In this session, Nadine Ajaka of the Washington Post and Andy Carvin of the Digital Forensic Research Lab will demonstrate their methodologies for spotting fake video and social media bots.

The session is designed for:

>Journalists interested in covering disinformation but aren't sure where to start.

>Newsrooms already engaged in disinformation-related reporting

>Anyone looking to learn how to identify potential disinformation in these forms and gaining the tools for teaching their newsrooms how to do the same

<Speakers

>Andy Carvin

Senior Fellow, DFRLab

>Nadine Ajaka

Senior Producer, Video Platforms, The Washington Post

@nadineajaka

2/2

<Bearing Witness: Vicarious Trauma and Living With A PTSD Diagnosis

After years of exposure to graphic imagery, social reporting pioneer Andy Carvin confronted the consequences of his PTSD diagnosis, radically changing how he approached reporting and trained staff. In this powerful session, he will share his story and the tough lessons he learned.

This session is designed for:

Journalists concerned about prospective vicarious trauma in their everyday work

Newsrooms that would like to build structures to mitigate exposure to violence and stress

Anyone who would like to better understand the effects of bearing witness

<Table Talks: Revenue + Culture

Consistently ranked among the best experiences of our conference, this series of participatory, inspiring conversations will address challenging topics in your area of expertise. Participants are able to choose their own conversations and collaborate with the brightest minds in their fields to explore new ideas on common issues.

Head to the room that has the topics that interest you most, sit anywhere and our trained facilitators will you give you (very brief!) instructions on how Table Talks will work.

This session is designed for:

Everyone! There's something for everyone at the ONA19 Table Talks sessions

<Table leads:

<Culture:

Andy Carvin, Senior Fellow, DFRLab, The Atlantic Council - How do we remain resilient when so much of our work has the potential of being traumatic?

David Cohn, Senior Director, Alpha Group, Advance Digital - Fuck New York, I work somewhere else: Working remotely

Melissa Daniels, Reporter, Report for America - Mindfulness in the Newsroom: Practical Tips and Other Self-Care

Fernando Diaz, Editor and Publisher, The Chicago Reporter - Changing legacy organizations and their management culture

Dan Gillmor, Co-founder, ASU News Co/Lab, How journalism can meet the challenge of an attack on the foundations of our republic

Everdeen Mason, Senior Audience Editor, The Washington Post - Influencing culture change around audience development in the newsroom

Luisa Ortiz Perez, Executive Director & Co-Founder, vita-activa.dot.org - How to combat the effects of online violence and create a safe environment for women journalists to work

Alison Schary, Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Legal issues in digital media

Liz Worthington, Director of Content Strategy, American Press Institute - How to arm journalists with analytics without weaponizing the results

Revenue:

Cory Bergman, Co-founder, Factal - Adjacent market opportunities for news organizations

Sharon Chan, VP, Innovation, Product & Development, Seattle Times - Hybrid business models for news organizations that combine for-profits and nonprofits

Katherine Goldstein, Creator and Host, The Double Shift - The ups and downs of starting a successful podcast, from the perspective of an independent creator

Fernando Moreno, Chief Operations Officer, Spanish Public Radio - How to create and use an asset based model for journalists and organizations

Alice Rhee, Managing Editor, Strategic Partnerships & Growth, American Journalism Project - Philanthropy and local news

Christopher Wink, CEO, Technical.ly - Local news business models

Tyree Worthy, Publisher, NOLA Messenger - Streams of revenue, business management, and choosing the right employee

<Speakers

>Andy Carvin

Senior Fellow, DFRLab

@acarvin

>David Cohn

Senior Director, Alpha Group, Advance Digital

@digidave

>Melissa Daniels

Business Reporter, The Desert Sun

@melissamdaniels

>Fernando Diaz

Editor and Publisher, The Chicago Reporter

>Dan Gillmor

Co-founder, ASU News Co/Lab

@dangillmor

>Everdeen Mason

Senior Audience Editor, The Washington Post

@EverdeenMason

>Luisa Ortiz Pérez

Executive Director & Co-Founder, vita-activa.org

@LuOrtiz

>Alison Schary

Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

@alisonschary

>Cory Bergman

Co-founder, Factal

@corybe

>Sharon Chan

VP, Innovation, Product & Development, New York Times

@sharonpianchan

>Katherine Goldstein

Creator and Host, The Double Shift

@kgeee

>Fernando Moreno

Chief Operations Officer, Spanish Public Radio

>Alice Rhee

Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships & Growth, American Journalism Project

>Christopher Wink

CEO, Technical.ly

@christopherwink

>Tyree Worthy

Publisher, NOLA Messenger

@tcworthynola

<Moderator

>Eric Zassenhaus

Product Manager, Pacific Standard

@ezass

Donara Barojan, Assistant Director at DFRLab.Publishes articles focusing on "bot" and russian account identification. Located in Latvia currently, tweets local language roughly half the time.

An additional element I am reading over right now and also working to validate their information.

https://in-this-together.com/expose-network-and-the-open-information-partnership-part-1/

This is UK centric, but DFRLab is present in the information. Some on the information is older, but I do not think it is anything beyond reason and may help link associations.

>>23078, >>23087, >>23090

>>41000

>>>/qresearch/8083408 pb, >>>/qresearch/8087153 pb

>Reid Hoffman bankrolling faulty Iowa app

It's the same guy referenced by Q in 2018 Dec. (Q #2635)

re Alabama Senate race scandal

Big digg last Dec, Jan, Feb.

Now here he is AGAIN!!

CAMPAIGN 2020 Billionaire Who Bankrolled Faulty App in Iowa Democrat Caucus Also Funded Sabotage Ops in 2017 Alabama Senate Race: Reid Hoffman

This Silicon Valley technocrat is notorious for funding shady political operations.

Big League Politics has reported about Acronym, the political organization that is behind Shadow Inc., the tech firm that made the faulty app that caused massive delays in reporting the Democrat results of the Iowa caucus.

Acronym is closely tied to South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg and the failed campaign of Hillary Clinton, and it is funded by Silicon Valley oligarch Reid Hoffman. Hoffman has a history of funding shady social media operations, which makes it incomprehensible that a firm funded by him would be tasked with securing electoral integrity for the all-important Iowa caucus.

Hoffman, who founded the popular networking portal LinkedIn, has frequently funded campaigns to manipulate voters using technology. As the Democrats accuse the Russians of running disinfo ops to influence elections, one of their richest backers actually does it, gets caught doing it, receives with no repercussions, and is given an opportunity to do it yet again. Hoffman’s top henchman is Dmitri Mehlhorn, who used to promote privatization of schools before he joined the dark side.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/billionaire-who-bankrolled-faulty-app-in-iowa-democrat-caucus-also-funded-sabotage-ops-in-2017-alabama-senate-race/

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Hoffman ties into a giant disinfo network revolving around muh Russia and involving the DNC up to their necks. For more, see Information Warfare thread:

>>>/qrb/23078

>>>/qrb/23087

http://archive.fo/BbMxh

qresear.ch for 3 months of diggs, very detailed.

Digg still active, these actors/orgs keep coming up again and again.

>>41000

SORRY FOR DUPLICATE >>41001

Moar on Reid Hoffman & Dmitri Mehlhorn

This is the SECOND TIME Hoffman has been involved in a failed Dem political project. Why do his projects fail?

Here is another article on Hoffman and Mehlhorn:

Group That Sabotaged Iowa Caucus Begun by Billionaire Backer of Alabama ‘False Flag’ Campaign

Mehlhorn excerpt:

Having fostered friendships with nationally known Silicon Valley oligarchs like right-wing libertarian Trump supporter Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, is now making his name as a top sugar-daddy of the Democratic anti-Trump resistance.

Following Trump’s election in 2016, Hoffman plowed his money into an array of new Democrat-aligned social media groups through a funding hub he founded called Investing in US.

To run Investing in US on a day-to-day basis, Hoffman tapped Mehlhorn, a venture capitalist and political strategist used to walking the line between the corporate world and Democratic Party.

“There was no risk-capital or growth-capital arm of the resistance, and so that is what we’ve tried to build,” Mehlhorn told Vanity Fair. “Now, in terms of what that implies, that implies that we are backing founders, so people who we think have big, potentially game-changing ideas.”

Mehlhorn’s career path tracked closely with neoliberal party favorites like Buttigieg and Cory Booker. He studied at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, launched his career at McKinsey Associates, and became a leading advocate for school privatization as the chief operating officer of Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst.

Dmitri Mehlhorn

According to Mehlhorn’s bio, he sits on the board of American Prison Data Systems, a company that claims to reduce recidivism by giving prisoners tablets to study coding for five hours a day.

Mehlhorn is also an advisor to the Democratic group DigiDems, which Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign paid $1540 for technology services.

In a 2018 Medium post, announcing the “founders” that Investing in US planned to back, Mehlhorn resorted to distinctly neoconservative talking points to emphasize the mission of his organization.

After quoting Ronald Reagan, he declared, “Trump and his movement, borrowing heavily from other authoritarian criminals such as Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin, promised to hollow out America’s principles in favor of his own personal enrichment.”

Pledging to “inoculate our politics and our economy against corruption, white nationalism, and mass deceit,” Mehlhorn announced major donations to “diverse groups” with names like Woke Vote, PushBlack, and an “anti-Nazi” organization known as Integrity for America.

Among the top recipients of support from Investing in US was McGowan’s Acronym, which Mehlhorn described merely as a “media group.”

As The Grayzone reported, Acronym has ballooned since its founding into a massive dark money operation, even launching a Super PAC dubbed Pacronym that has raked in money from hedge fund billionaires like Seth Klarman and Donald Sussman.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/06/group-that-sabotaged-iowa-caucus-begun-by-billionaire-backer-of-alabama-false-flag-campaign/

>>41676

From this thread: https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/8203796.html

Since 2016 it seems, a tight nucleus of domestic far-left social science phds have been coordinating with multinational tech and media corporations, and heavy-hitting think tanks, as well as potentially national security personnel, to try and turn the power of public and private surveillance and psyops against "anons" (whose non-conforming narratives they label as "white nationalist" "disinformation").

This was before 8chan was shut down, right after the pizza gate meme blew up and Trump was elected. This doesn't look good, anons, stay safe out there. This smacks of a government and corporate team to psy-op the non-elite segment of the population in the United States.

=MSM Articles on Q and 8chan: ~1530 articles thru December 2019==

PAGE 2 OF 2

SIX PHASES OF MSM COVERAGE ON Q (& FROM MARCH 2019, 8CHAN)

1 Q UNKNOWN TO MSM (but they wonder if it has to do with "the calm before the storm")

2 Q IS A LARP (MSM mocks Q, tries to make the idea sound silly)

3 Q DENOUNCED (Mass attack launched Aug 1 2018; they try to say Q movement is dangerous w/weak evidence)

4 Q ATTACKED (Weakly associated with fake bomber/synagogue shooter; also, fake science deployed to debunk)

5 Q/8CHAN PAIRED; 8 CHAN DEPLATFORMED (each used to discredit the other after Christchurch; both go down in Aug)

6 8 CHAN REPLATFORMED (Attacks continue but seem like 'old news'; Jesse Watters has semi-positive report which 'normalizes' Q a little; POTUS retweets Q twats)

More sauce for msm articles on q & 8chan Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

Anti-Q writers, pubs, discussions (see Qresear.ch)

MSM articles: two year anniversary

https://endchan.net/qanonresearch/res/29280.html#29483

https://endchan.net/qanonresearch/res/29280.html#29484

MSM Hit Pieces on Q and 8chan: 1350 articles thru August 2019

https://voat.co/v/QRV/3408544 (MSM articles added July-Aug 2019)

>>6947314 MSM articles thru June 2019

>>6675051, >>6675058 MSM articles on Q April, May 2019

>>6055292 Newsweek responds to my chart on the "BIG 6" media outlets attacking Q

>>6027475 MSM articles on Q: 697 and counting (3-31-19)

>>4932436 Discussion of reporting on recent Comet Pizza fire

>>4692767 IPOT goes after anti-Q writers like Will Sommer

>>4678761 Discussion of Will Sommer, Jimmy Comet & Amanda Kleinman

>>4601471 First anti-Q fake news article for 2019….RWW's Jared Holt

>>4592014 238 MSM articles on Q from start thru 1/1/19

>>4386891, >>4388458 Moar on Travis View

Hi Anon, thanks for collating all this amazing information.

I was looking for your Q MSM articles reports for Jan and Feb, I'm sure I saw you post them somewhere.

Would you be able to point me to them, please?

Thanks in advance, see you nb.

>>41954

yw anon.

didn't post Feb, will work on this week and post for Jan - Mar (super busy w/IRL and board corona stuff plus baking class dough). Back burner temporarily but will catch up now--takes a week do get it together, kek.

i would suggest to retain legal cousel proficient in copyright law post haste. this isn't an open and closed subjest...

if you don't protect yourself you will be shut off. they are hoping you dojust that,ignore the notice, because...fuck you!

DON"T! answer and defend. your rpovider will have nochoice if you ignore...

MSM Articles on Q and 8chan: ~1700 articles Jan 1 2020 thru March 2020

PAGE 1 OF 2

QUARTERLY Report

The MSM has been writing on Q since Dec. 2017, although it really picked up in March 2018 when Roseanne endorsed Q. August 2018, MSM launched its first major attack. But the biggest attack was indirect: the 8chan deplatforming in August 2019.

Since 8kun got replatformed in Nov, the focus shifted back to attacking Q. MSM articles continue to be 95% negative, with a couple of exceptions by more sympathetic pubs (American Thinker and Zerohedge--AT's Jan. 2020 article was picked up by ZH). It also apparently elicited an attack:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/hackers_targeted_american_thinker_after_it_put_up_a_post_about_q.html

But there are still small signs that Q is becoming viewed as more mainstream. Jesse Waters' casual mention in December helped "normalize" the movement (and he didn't get attacked too badly, although NYT did respond predictably). Some of the winter articles lament this normalization--good news for Q's.

CAPS & PDFs

* Article timeline

* Total number of MSM platforms in descending order

* BIG 9 Authors by MSM media platform

* 1700 articles by DATE (PAGE 2)

* 1700 articles by DATE (also capped):

https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110222/1700-msm-articles-about-q-mar-31-2020-by-date-pdf-1-6-meg?da=y

* 1700 articles by AUTHOR:

https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110225/1700-msm-articles-about-q-mar-31-2020-by-author-pdf-1-6-meg?da=y

* 1700 articles by PUB:

https://www.keepandshare.com/doc23/110226/1700-msm-articles-about-q-mar-31-2020-by-pub-pdf-1-6-meg?da=y

Journalists with 7+ MSM articles on Q/8chan

25+ Mike Rothschild (40), Alex Kaplan (38), Will Sommer (38), Jared Holt (37), Kyle Mantyla (30), Ben Collins (26)

12+ Kelly Weill (16), Brandy Zadrozny (15), David Covucci (15), Ali Breland (12), Drew Harwell (12)

7+ Tom Porter (11), Emily Birnbaum (11), Abby Ohlheiser (11), E J Dickson (11), Ryan Broderick (10), April Glaser (9), Adi Robertson (8), Philip Bump (7), John Bowden (7), Travis View (7)

Publications with articles that oppose Q/8chan

60+ WAPO (128), DAILYDOT (79), RWW (70), MEDIA MATTERS (70), NBC (62)

30+ DAILYBEAST (55), THEHILL (44), NYT (51), NEWSWEEK (41), SALON (40), BUZZFEED (36), UK-GUARDIAN (35), VICE (35), ABC (33), HUFFPO (31)

20+ THEVERGE (29), ROLLINGSTONE (25), CNN (23)

15+ SLATE (19), UK-BBC (17), BREITBART (17), VOX (17), BUSINSDR (16), NY-MAG (15), FOX (15)

10+ SPLC (14), UK-SUN (14), NPR (13), MOTHER JONES (13), MASHABLE (12), CBS (13), SEATTLE TIMES (11), WSJ (11), YAHOO (11), POLITICO (11), TIME (10)

JAN 2020 THEMES in rough time order

* Q's running for office = crazy (continues thru March)

* Q followers kidnaps own child

* Celebs against Trump

* VA gun rally

* Q's are anti-vax

* Q's drink bleach to ward off corona

FEB & MARCH 2020 themes in rough time order

* misc, random hit pieces early in Feb

* German shooter likened to Q followers

* F. Brennan flees to US to avoid Filipino criminal libel charges (only 8kun story)

* most focus from March onward is on weird Q stuff re Covid-19

MSM Articles on Q and 8chan thru March 2020

PAGE 2 OF 2

SEVEN PHASES OF MSM COVERAGE ON Q

Phase

1 Q unknown to MSM: (but they wonder if it has to do with "the calm before the storm")

2 Q is a LARP: (MSM mocks Q, tries to make the idea sound silly)

3 Q denounced: (mass attack launched Aug 1 2018; they try to say Q movement is dangerous w/weak evidence)

4 Q attacked: (Weakly associated with fake bomber/synagogue shooter; also, fake science deployed to debunk)

5 Q/8CHAN paired; 8 CHAN deplatformed: (each used to discredit the other after Christchurch; both go down in Aug)

6 8 CHAN replatformed > 8KUN: (attacks continue but it's 'old news'; Watters report helps normalize Q; POTUS retweets Q twats)

'''7 Focus shifts from 8KUN to Q: first on Q candidates >>> Covid-19 stories

MORE SAUCE:

Pew Research Center Survey: 23% of Americans have heard of Qanon (over 80 million) >>>/qrb/42007

MSM articles thru Dec 2019 >>>/qrb/41733, >>>/qrb/41734

MSM articles thru Oct 2019

https://endchan.net/qanonresearch/res/29280.html#29483

https://endchan.net/qanonresearch/res/29280.html#29484

MSM articles thru Aug 2019:

https://voat.co/v/QRV/3408544

'Old Links to search in QResear.ch:

>>>/qresearch/7711603 Will Sommer hit piece accusing armed Q followers of planning a kidnap

>>>/qresearch/7712899 Anon digg on Sommer's libelous article

>>>/qresearch/7707523, >>>/qresearch/7707940 2020 Jared Holt hit piece on Oregon congressional candidate

>>>/qresearch/6947314 MSM articles on Q thru June '19

>>>/qresearch/6675051, >>>/qresearch/6675058 MSM articles on Q thru May '19

>>>/qresearch/6055292 Newsweek responds to "BIG 6" reporters attacking Q

>>>/qresearch/6027475 MSM articles on Q: 697 thru Mar '19

>>>/qresearch/4932436 Discussion of reporting on recent Comet Pizza fire

>>>/qresearch/4692767 IPOT goes after anti-Q writers like Will Sommer

>>>/qresearch/4678761 Discussion of Will Sommer, Jimmy Comet & Amanda Kleinman

>>>/qresearch/4601471 First anti-Q fake news article for 2019….RWW's Jared Holt

>>>/qresearch/4592014 238 MSM articles on Q thru Jan '19

>>>/qresearch/4386891, >>>/qresearch/4388458 Moar on Travis View

>>42021

LINK CORRECTION:

Pew Research Center Survey: 23% of Americans have heard of Qanon (over 80 million) >>>/qrb/42007

should be >>>/qrb/42009

>>42614

tanks friend, mucho gracias.

Didn't get to look b4 now, prepping for class.

Good class sure glad we've have 'em

o7

I'm good for now, i am OP for many of those images. But there may be moar later, depends on where anons and Q goes with these digs. Would like to do moar on them - they were really a labor of love. Putting together the global disinformation network. I've posted a lot of digs but would have to stop bakin' to do it full-time. Can't - not the right time. Right now, need to work on learning more about videos so i can compact them and save on endchan.

also on new thread in comms (WA/OR) bc there's a lot of stuff that reveals antifa actions.

Wish 8kun would handle larger files - and also load them faster. Must be possible bc they load fast on end. But glad just to have a platform, glad for anything really that allows the work to go on.

o7

here's some helpful hints if you are being hacked by a "Microsoft Hacker": run your "disk cleanup" and you don't have 40 kb after 2 cleanups, then you are being hacked! if you still see a: 6.47 kb this is a "Microsoft IP6 to IP4 network adapter," 20 kb (20 kb + 40 kb= 60 kb) this is a "Microsoft IP6 device adapter," 1 mb this is a "Microsoft Wi-Fi adapter." All of these connections are attached to your computer/ISP connection and is going to Microsoft's SQL servers so that a Microsoft Hacker can access your computer/network. Please check your computers/servers for these Microsoft Hacker Tricks. If you need any help getting rid of these Microsoft devices, i can definitely help everyone out and show you how to get rid of them.

Sincerely & SEMPER FI!

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