From dire disinformation warnings to security clearance wrist-slaps, I read the 860 page foreign interference report (or at least, the important bits) so you don't have to do it yourself.
Thanks for doing this for "us" I for one am glad there are no willful traitors in our government. I hope that some of the PP crowd will believe the warning about disinformation.
Excellent, succinct overview and in a short time frame. Thanks! Nice illustration (good examples) of the continuing disinformation activity still dumping on social media platforms by the usual suspects.
You are correct about the gathering of Intel. Intel gatherers try to garner their information from multiple sources, which can be difficult. They would not interrogate or interview MPs. NSICOP would then try to decipher the meaning behind the intelligence. Decision makers should have initiated the Investigation asap and not aired the rudimentary assessment publicly.
People think of foreign misinformation as foreign governments send leaflets to the population, they are trying to convert. However, it can be quite overt, like Trump, bombastically suggesting Canada becoming the 51st state. I also see Facebook, Joe Rogan, X, Fox and the Epoch News as contributors to foreign interference.
tracks with some of the running themes you’ve established in your work.
Once again, we gotta worry less about political individuals, more about political indolence.
There’s like a combo of “public tendency to look for scapegoats” and “capitulation to the notion of ‘corrupt politicians’ to justify/perpetuate the democratic disillusionment within the body politic.”
Perhaps masking a reluctance to believe “we the people” have still been more or less in charge, making our own mess. Or that existential societal threats are more likely to be domestic than foreign.
No one wants to hear that if there is a solution, it’s more likely to involve stuff like:
- public participation in politics, beyond voting once every several years
- becoming more comfortable actually discussing politics with people in our regular lives
than impeaching or replacing a few elected officials.
All the more reason to appreciate that this is being said! Thank you for the great work.
Thanks for winnowing this down to the salient points for those of us that aren't full time political wonks.
Thanks for doing this for "us" I for one am glad there are no willful traitors in our government. I hope that some of the PP crowd will believe the warning about disinformation.
Excellent, succinct overview and in a short time frame. Thanks! Nice illustration (good examples) of the continuing disinformation activity still dumping on social media platforms by the usual suspects.
Just a couple comments.....
You are correct about the gathering of Intel. Intel gatherers try to garner their information from multiple sources, which can be difficult. They would not interrogate or interview MPs. NSICOP would then try to decipher the meaning behind the intelligence. Decision makers should have initiated the Investigation asap and not aired the rudimentary assessment publicly.
People think of foreign misinformation as foreign governments send leaflets to the population, they are trying to convert. However, it can be quite overt, like Trump, bombastically suggesting Canada becoming the 51st state. I also see Facebook, Joe Rogan, X, Fox and the Epoch News as contributors to foreign interference.
tracks with some of the running themes you’ve established in your work.
Once again, we gotta worry less about political individuals, more about political indolence.
There’s like a combo of “public tendency to look for scapegoats” and “capitulation to the notion of ‘corrupt politicians’ to justify/perpetuate the democratic disillusionment within the body politic.”
Perhaps masking a reluctance to believe “we the people” have still been more or less in charge, making our own mess. Or that existential societal threats are more likely to be domestic than foreign.
No one wants to hear that if there is a solution, it’s more likely to involve stuff like:
- public participation in politics, beyond voting once every several years
- becoming more comfortable actually discussing politics with people in our regular lives
than impeaching or replacing a few elected officials.
All the more reason to appreciate that this is being said! Thank you for the great work.
I really appreciate your summary on this report. Thank you
Excellent summary. I am, however, already bracing myself for the attacks on Commissioner Hogue.