Hybrid Warfare and Propaganda

Natalka found this excellent piece on Telegram. She posted it on Twitter. It summarizes something that books have been written on. It is a good primer on how propaganda works.

I think it will help you when targeted by it. At the moment, a lot of it is thrown in spaces like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and, yes, alternate media. I am bringing this to prime you for an actual hybrid campaign that is at work right now:

The methods used by Russian propaganda described by a Russian journalist:

“I studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. We had a military department. In an atmosphere of secrecy, we were taught special combat propaganda — the art of sowing discord in the ranks of the enemy with the help of disinformation and manipulation of consciousness.

Let me tell you, it’s a scary business. I’m not kidding.

Combat, or “black,” propaganda allows any distortion of real facts to solve propaganda problems. This is an effective weapon used for the sole purpose of knocking out the enemy’s brains.

The “rotten herring” method. The “inverted pyramid” method. The “big lie” method. The “40 to 60” principle. The “absolutely obvious” method.
You also know all these methods and techniques. You just don’t realize it. As intended.