Posted on Nov 21, 2019
A Former Fox News Executive Divides Americans Using Russian Tactics
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At first glance, the websites Conservative Edition News and Liberal Edition News have only one thing in common: Both have been carefully curated to inflame America’s culture wars.
Conservative Edition News is a repository of stories guaranteed to infuriate the American right. Its recent headlines include “Austin sex-ed curriculum teaches kids how to obtain an abortion” and “HuffPost writer considers Christianity ‘dangerous.’”
On Liberal Edition News, readers are fed a steady diet of content guaranteed to drive liberal voters further left or to wring a visceral response from moderates. One recent story singled out an Italian youth soccer coach who called Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist, a “whore.”
The sites are the work of Ken LaCorte, the former Fox News executive who was accused of killing a story about President Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress, before the 2016 election.
Conservative Edition News is a repository of stories guaranteed to infuriate the American right. Its recent headlines include “Austin sex-ed curriculum teaches kids how to obtain an abortion” and “HuffPost writer considers Christianity ‘dangerous.’”
On Liberal Edition News, readers are fed a steady diet of content guaranteed to drive liberal voters further left or to wring a visceral response from moderates. One recent story singled out an Italian youth soccer coach who called Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist, a “whore.”
The sites are the work of Ken LaCorte, the former Fox News executive who was accused of killing a story about President Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress, before the 2016 election.
A Former Fox News Executive Divides Americans Using Russian Tactics
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Those aren't Russian tactics for Information Operations, they are ours.
Our tactics in a nutshell (internet-friendly version) is to tell the truth but emphasize events and issues that further an intended narrative, Counter messaging concentrates on discrediting and detracting from opposing narratives. This is what we are seeing currently, and why I have been saying that several political entities (and a couple private ones) hired a bona fide IO team.
Russian IO focuses on deception and concealing true objectives (Maskirovka). It harnesses all of the various means to deploy that deception and they are quite good at it. Much of what they do is designed to splinter opposition or get resources committed to the wrong place.
Our tactics in a nutshell (internet-friendly version) is to tell the truth but emphasize events and issues that further an intended narrative, Counter messaging concentrates on discrediting and detracting from opposing narratives. This is what we are seeing currently, and why I have been saying that several political entities (and a couple private ones) hired a bona fide IO team.
Russian IO focuses on deception and concealing true objectives (Maskirovka). It harnesses all of the various means to deploy that deception and they are quite good at it. Much of what they do is designed to splinter opposition or get resources committed to the wrong place.
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