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The Disinformation Observer is your weekly guide to disinformation. Each week, we publish "This Week in Disinformation," summarizing the latest developments, and provide in-depth analyses of emerging trends and tactics.
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Why The Industrial Grifter Complex Is Doing So Well (opens the original)
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You and I have always lied.In fact, our entire species have always lied. For most of history, this remained a manageable problem, constrained by the distance lies could travel. However, the internet removed that limit and money made it attractive. When payment is attached to a falsehood and given the reach of a global network, lying transforms into a business. And business is booming. The grifters know this all too well. The machine that turns outrage into income was already running, built by do
This Week In Information Warfare 20 - 26 Sept 2026 (opens the original)
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🗣️ If you or your organisation is dealing with this, I can help.Subscribe nowI’ve changed how I write these. Again. Why? Because I must be better. Compression in these reports is a must as the goal is mapping out information warfare without wasting your time.This week we see how Britain's prime minister ordered work on a centre to fight hostile state information attacks. Four allies said North Korean hackers posin
We Are All Conspiracy Theorists (opens the original)
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Stop me if you’ve experienced this at dinner.The event is going well until an uncle, somewhere between the main course and the pudding, outlines his theory of the missing scientists.He has the details ready: Eleven of them, dead or vanished within a few years. One worked on anti-gravity. Another was a retired Air Force general who used to run a research lab. Now the FBI is involved, and the White House is taking questions.He spreads his hands, proudly announcing that “someone is removing the peo
This Week In Information Environment 13 - 19 Sept 26 (opens the original)
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🗣️ If you or your organisation is dealing with this, I can help.Subscribe nowWelcome back, it is always great to see you.While there is a lot going on in the world, these two stories deserve your attention. Together, they reveal how authorities are attempting to reshape the digital information environment using municipal legal actions and supranational security frameworks.First, Manhattan prosecutors seized twelve illegal domain name
What a 1731 Magazine Tells Us About Disinformation (opens the original)
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Did you know that the partisan press of the 1700 was not failing because it was dishonest? It was failing because it was exhausting.And I’m not getting the years mixed up either. During 1728, London ran on approximately twenty newspapers. None of them reported news; they more or less manufactured it. The money flowed from politicians, from merchants, from powerful men whose names rarely appeared in print.Not all of those were Englishmen. Correspondence from the period makes clear that other cont
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