Executives from Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter have been asked to testify to the U.S. Congress in coming weeks as lawmakers probe Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election, committee sources said on Wednesday. A Senate aide said executives from the three firms had been asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee to appear […]
The following is a guest post authored by Matt F., who is from the greater Boston area. Matt has a B.S. in Criminal Justice, and has a passion for history and all things awesome. To read more you can find him on WordPress. Follow him on Twitter @TheAlbumWeb. Fru did some light editing and made some minor contributions. […]
Yesterday Wikileaks began yet another dump of highly classified documents and materials stolen from the US government. This batch of data is being called “Vault 7” and includes all of the tools, tactics, and techniques used by the CIA to conduct cyber-warfare, computer hacking, and technical intelligence gathering. Wikileaks is claiming that these files were […]
When I watched the documentary “White Helmets” I was somewhat less impressed than the Oscars apparently were. This week, the White Helmets documentary took home an Oscar for best documentary in the short subject category. The documentary is about a group of Syrians who wear white protective helmets and rescue civilians from bombed out buildings. […]
The tyranny of doubt describes a plan or act of people’s nation to begin to destabilize; starting with a seed of doubt that can grow and sow chaos. The tyranny of doubt is a tactic used in psychological warfare, too. People can do it to themselves or outside actors can enact it. It has many […]
CYBERWAR IS COMING is the name of a paper written in the early nineties. Today, this body of work is close to prescient. But, its revelations have not yet come to pass in entirety. We’ve covered cyber war in some quantity here at SOFREP. Cyber alongside tactical ground assaults as a leverage of power before, after, […]
One thing that is important to remember when people talk about business, is that unlike in the United States, there really is no such thing as free enterprise in the People’s Republic of China. Like the telecommunications company Huawei, Wanda takes direction from the Chinese communist party. This is not an accident or an aberration […]
SOFREP is currently working on a in-depth series of articles about shaping operations, namely information operations, shaping operations, influence, and covert control. In the meantime, the following article from Defense One gives a insightful look into deception in a post-factual world, and why America needs to make moves to counter it. Conventional military dominance is […]
The battle for Aleppo is coming to a close and we can hope that the slaughter that has resulted from rebels and terrorists fighting the Syrian military and Russian Air Force is drawing to a conclusion as well. When I was in Syria last month, I remember being ushered into a large conference room for […]
You thought you would never see the day, a SOFREP article about Lindsay Lohan. Believe me, I never thought I would be writing one. While celebrity gossip is not exactly our purview, once in a while you catch of whiff of something that just doesn’t quite smell right. Case in point: Lindsay Lohan becoming a staunch […]
Vladislav Surkov has been described as a gray cardinal, a behind the scenes puppet master working as a special advisor to President Vladimir Putin. Surkov helps to direct propaganda via state run media outlets in Russia. His particular brand of disinformation is designed to cause confusion and social turbulence to the point that people just […]
This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin? (The […]
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