Emma L Briant - The Woman Exposing the Propaganda Puppet Masters - Leading Expert on Information War

The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of
global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific
stories and narratives. But they are not alone once developed the same
techniques can be used by other powers, international and local to
subvert democratic institutions and to warp public perception of the
news and politics in their countries. But Russian propaganda does not
work how most people think it does. The interventions of the trolls and
agitators often fail to directly promote pro-regime narratives in
political discussions but do succeed in distracting people from having
open discussions that are critical of the state. The mechanics of
disinformation operations are often counter-intuitive – and we’ll unpack
this topic in today’s episode.
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SPEAKER:
Emma L Briant is an internationally recognized expert and scholar of
information warfare and propaganda who helps policy makers, governments,
business leaders, journalists and the general public understand and
respond to the challenge of contemporary online threats. Emma is a
fellow of Bard College. She has been called “The woman exposing the
propaganda puppet masters” by Index on Censorship in 2022, and “One of
the world's leading experts in information wars.” by Der Spiegel in
2023. Her research and solutions on the rapid evolution of surveillance
driven propaganda and its implications for democracy were central in
exposing the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Her work continues to inform
policy including through US Congress, UK Parliament, Canadian Parliament
and the European Parliament.
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BOOKS:
Propaganda and counterterrorism: Strategies for global change (2015)
Bad News for Refugees by Greg Philo, Emma Briant, et al. (2013)
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LINKS:
Emma Briant blog and website: https://emma-briant.co.uk/
Emma Briant on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Briant
Emma Briant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant
Emma Briant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmalbriant/
Emma Briant on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant
Emma Briant at Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/es/author/emma-l-briant/
Emma Briant at Bard College: https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=4601
Reading list: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78981573
About Cambridge Analytica: https://www.propagandamachine.tech/
UK Parliamentary committee report: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/96662/html/
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