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AI has collapsed the production window.
#InfluenceOperations that once took teams of experts weeks to develop are now produced in hours. The window between distribution and attribution remains wide, giving adversaries a decisive head start. ⏳📉
#GenerativeAI #Infosec
My latest in @NikkeiAsia documents a direct PRC #InfluenceOperations pipeline penetrating Japan's information space via news aggregators & regional TV broadcasters.
📍Xinhua (CN) → Xinhua (JPN) → Docomo / AU + Chiba TV → Japanese audience
⚡️x 7
https://t.co/CrIrf3rxKj

Today's maritime environment extends beyond fleets and sea lanes.
It is increasingly shaped by:
⚓ #InfluenceOperations
⚓ Economic coercion
⚓ #Lawfare
⚓ #ShadowFleets
⚓ #CyberOperations
⚓ Proxy actors
⚓ #Sanctions evasion
⚓ Autonomous systems
⚓ #StrategicCompetition below the threshold of war
#Doctrine must evolve alongside these realities.
#SHEEHAN | The Next Stage of #Iran's War | Townhall | 26 JUN 2026 #PSYOP #Warfare #InfluenceOperations #IranWar #GlobalAffairs #ForeignPolicy 🌎 https://t.co/xDdBxr9SVY
#Israel has "unprecedented access to our #electoralsystems." US media is disseminating a "report" by #Israeli-owned&operated #cybersecurity company @CheckPointSW whose leadership is
@IDF #Unit8200,fear-mongering US public about #influenceoperations by #Russia #China & #Iran. #AI
We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.
Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.

Trace the money before trusting the message. Foreign influence, activist networks, and funding pipelines shape public pressure. Intel before emotion. #PeteRobertucci #EdenArmy #Podcast #InfluenceOperations #Activism
The piece begins with the 2026 NDAA requirement directing the Department of War to define:
🧠cognitive warfare
🧠#NarrativeIntelligence
🧠and their relationship to #IO, #PSYOP, #MISO, and #InfluenceOperations.
The argument is that doctrinal ambiguity has operational consequences.
Without clear definitions, organizations measure different things, organize differently, and pursue different objectives across the information environment.
#CognitiveWarfare is framed as an operational problem centered on decision-making.
I also had the chance to give a statement for this article:
#RussianPropaganda #InfluenceOperations
"Russia trains teenage influencers to churn out pro-war content"
https://t.co/qhCMvPXDLM
最近新加坡政府一口气封停了6个听起来很“新加坡”的新闻网站,这些网站可能发起针对新加坡的敌意信息宣传,经查它们在开曼群岛或中国注册,却披着新加坡主流媒体的外衣。
其中 新加坡时报(The Singapore Times)的注册信息,竟然指向了中国江苏的一家公司。
新加坡政府调查发现,有4个网站在2025年大选期间突然活跃起来,在政府看来这就是利用敏感时期操纵舆论,平时不干活,一到投票就开工?不好意思,必须拿下。
此外,这6个网站里除了新加坡时报,另五个网站是在开曼群岛注册,相继在2021年3月28日的短短24秒内完成注册,并使用一家设在冰岛的隐私保护服务,以第三方资料取代注册人信息。
2023年4月至6月期间,注册资料更新为中国广东。这些网站相信由一个幕后团伙操控,他们甚至提供虚假的新加坡办公地址。

In Season 7, Episode 1 of Global Taiwan Insights, Ben Sando interviews Mariah Thornton on her groundbreaking research into Taiwan’s own political warfare system.
🎧 Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/MI5iEetbEY
#PoliticalWarfare #InfluenceOperations

"The main strategic issue is the difference in costs between taking action and defending oneself.” Russo concludes that Institutions must lower response costs and resist responding to every provocation.
https://t.co/jtbZeySNhS #SWJEssay #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare @unito @ARCYBER @USSOCOM @THINKJSOU
Cognitive conflict breaks core targeting assumptions.
“Beliefs, identities, narratives, and social alignments do not remain stationary while staffs deliberate.” As a result, American #InfluenceOperations often target “a cognitive reality that no longer exists.”
The #InformationEnvironment behaves differently. It moves at network speed, spreads through interconnected systems, and adapts constantly.
The authors note that while US targeting cycles run on 96 hour horizons, adversaries weaponize information “in 9.6 seconds.”
#SWJTheDiscourse: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion
This video shows how long-term #InfluenceOperations work by reshaping how a society understands truth, legitimacy, and itself.
Subversion is not about persuasion in the short term. It is about conditioning...gradually altering norms, incentives, and institutions so that a population begins to act against its own interests without external force.
The key point that this video makes is that subversion operates across four domains:
🧠 Ideas and values (what a society believes is right or wrong)
🏛️ Institutions (media, education, governance)
🤝 Social cohesion (trust between groups)
👓 Decision-making (how leaders and citizens interpret reality)
What makes this extremely relevant today is the recognition that modern information environments-algorithmic media, fragmented audiences, and declining institutional trust- make societies more vulnerable to these dynamics, not less.
The lesson is not paranoia. It is awareness. 👁️ Subversion works best when you don't notice it...so keep noticing.
If organizations, governments, and professionals focus only on tactical responses like fact-checking, content moderation, or messaging, then they miss the deeper issue. #Subversion succeeds when strategic intent goes unexamined and when societies lose the ability to distinguish between disagreement and manipulation.
This video reframes influence as a strategic and cultural problem, which are the hardest to reverse once ignored.
Understanding this is the first step toward #resilience. 💪 🧠
📺 Find the full interview here: https://t.co/6auK8gzLfR
WhatsApp messages have revealed how a prominent MEP for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party took bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign in the European Parliament. #influenceoperations #covert #Russia https://t.co/Y78xtA0LYr
2LT Kyra Du, J.D. puts it bluntly:
“Lawfare—where law itself is a weapon—is not merely a subset of #InfluenceOperations. It is strategic action.”
Translation👉the courtroom, the media, and the UN chamber are as much battlefields as the jungles, deserts, and seas.
How Russia is quietly trying to win over the world beyond the West. #propaganda #disinformation #influenceoperations #covert https://t.co/G2JH7Dr7oP
Interesting report exposing Storm-1516 (possibly Russian intelligence) #InfluenceOperations against several countries, including #Armenia
#hybridthreat
https://t.co/hnMGSKxeSA
Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas https://t.co/ha91l7cQb2 #Meta #InfluenceOperations #SocialMedia #Disinformation #CyberSecurity

@JoshJPhilipp 1) Is Mass Surveillance Making Us Crazy?
2) CCP lures American influencers for Propaganda Tours;
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#Crossroads With #JoshuaPhilipp
Live on X
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#SurveillanceStatePsychosis #brain #behavior #stress #USA #China #influencers #influenceoperations
Is Mass Surveillance Making Us Crazy? https://t.co/C36GF2SsE2
Don’t miss Ondrej Nekovar's Lightning Talk at #Honeynet2025 on Cyber Counterintelligence and learn why deception isn’t just useful—it’s essential in today’s cyber domain.
🗓️ June 2–4, 2025
🔗 https://t.co/TZws4px3oB
#CyberDeception #Counterintelligence #InfluenceOperations

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