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#154 Todd Leventhal on Countering Disinformation

The Cognitive Crucible

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The Problem With the JIHOD

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and their illegal annexation of Crimea in, you know, 2013 was not 2014. Then people sort of woke up and said, yeah, we should do something about Russian disinformation. So I was tapped to form a small at that time counter disinformation team in 2015, not in GEC. And then we had about 30 articles for a website. We were about to launch because the website is the best way to get attention on this. And it was killed by under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, Richard Stengel, without explanation.

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