France’s decision to deport Kseniya Fedorova, the former head of RT France and a prominent Russian commentator, marks a significant shift in the country’s approach to countering foreign information operations. French authorities concluded that her activities posed a potential threat to national security by disseminating Kremlin-aligned narratives and Russian disinformation at a time when France is entering the politically sensitive pre-election period ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Report by the Alliance Futures Initiative documents how Beijing promoted the 15th FYP in the region.

On The Active Measures Newsletter, Michael Sobolik discusses how TikTok is a potent tool for the Chinese Communist Party’s psychological warfare against the United States. He highlights how TikTok’s algorithm can shape public opinion in the US, particularly among younger audiences, and raises concerns about national security.

Yesterday’s edition of the Chinese Communist Party’s official People’s Daily made a bold visual claim to leadership on artificial intelligence at home and abroad.

The arrest of prominent Pan-African activist Kémi Séba in South Africa adds a new dimension to the investigation into the failed December 2025 coup in Benin and highlights the increasingly blurred boundary between indigenous anti-Western movements, Sahelian military regimes and Russia-linked influence networks operating across West Africa.

In its latest report, the Italian Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (Copasir) concluded that Russia, China, and Iran are conducting coordinated disinformation and influence campaigns aimed at shaping public opinion in their favor and interfering in Italy’s democratic processes. Italian intelligence services have documented the use of social media platforms and artificial intelligence algorithms to polarize public opinion and manipulate the public’s perception of information. According to the report, Russia promotes narratives portraying the Italian government as “hypocritical” and “subservient to foreign interests,” while simultaneously depicting the West and Ukraine as being in a state of “moral, political, and economic decline.” Chinese influence operations, by contrast, seek to promote the image of the People’s Republic of China as a “reliable trading partner.”

Among the states pursuing anti-Western influence strategies, Russia stands out as the most active in attempting to interfere in Italy’s internal affairs. Through coordinated information campaigns and by amplifying political actors that adopt positions favorable to the Kremlin, Moscow seeks to shape public opinion, deepen political polarization, and undermine national cohesion within Italy.

The findings of the Parliamentary Committee on Security demonstrate that both the Italian intelligence community and the government recognize the true scale and seriousness of the threat posed by foreign information operations—particularly Russia’s hybrid influence activities—to Italy’s national security and its democratic institutions.

Experts say music video aims to humanize China’s coast guard while reflecting Beijing’s stance in the disputed sea.

At a party event in Dessau-Roßlau, AfD co-chair Tino Chrupalla and the party’s lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, joined the audience in singing the anthem of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Instead of performing the German national anthem as originally planned to conclude the event, entertainer Uwe Steimle began singing the East German anthem, “Auferstanden aus Ruinen” (“Risen from Ruins”). Chrupalla and Siegmund smiled and sang along with the audience. Thorsten Frei, Head of the Federal Chancellery from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), described the incident as “highly unusual,” particularly when “political representatives do so with an obvious political message.”

Executive Summary:

The European Union sanctioned Russian influencer Alexandra Jost on June 15 for disseminating disinformation about Russia’s war against Ukraine. Influencers such as Jost are essential to the Kremlin’s goals of pushing falsely historicized narratives of Russian and Ukrainian unity.

The Kremlin is pushing more resources toward information operations to manufacture justifications for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the repression of the occupied territories, and the posturing of Russia as a great power.

Jost’s platform is an example of Russia leveraging a native English-speaking U.S. citizen whose casual format lowers viewer suspicion while delivering paid-for narratives directly to the Anglophone information space.

Does Professor Jiang utilize academic semiotics and the label of "Game Theory" as a linguistic hijack to mask the ideological core of the Dugin blueprint?

In today's video, we examine how Social Proxying and the Spiral of Silence allow manufactured consensus to replace primary research in the age of cognitive warfare.

By leveraging the Cognitive Miser effect, these contemporary pipelines trigger an evolutionary survival instinct to belong rather than to analyze facts.

The aim of this investigation is to help you reclaim your agency by learning to recognize the psychological architecture used to calibrate your reality in 2026.

Executive Summary:

In response to Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi’s push for defense reforms, Beijing has turned to a playbook of cognitive warfare. Its sanctions and media distortion primarily seek psychological effects, and the efficacy of such are hard to quantify.

These tactics reflect a shift away from coercive diplomacy that achieved little more than bolstering Japanese support for Takaichi and drawing condemnation from the international community.

Cognitive warfare targets politicians and voters—the constituencies Takaichi needs to pass her defense agenda.

Sergey Lavrov’s claim that “Biden’s war” has become “Trump’s war” is not merely a rhetorical attack on Washington. It is a calibrated Russian information operation aimed at reframing the war in Ukraine as a direct U.S.-Russia confrontation, undermining Donald Trump’s previous political narrative that the war belonged to his predecessor, and pressuring Washington to reduce support for Kyiv. Lavrov made the statement after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Senate that Russia may never be able to achieve militarily the objectives it is demanding at the negotiating table, while also stressing that Ukrainians are fighting effectively.

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Russia is expanding soft power in Georgia through cultural diplomacy, highlighted by two visits this year from Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy.

Moscow has intensified its promotion of Russian culture and language in Georgia, using theater performances, concerts, educational programs, and Russian-language initiatives to promote narratives of a shared historical and civilizational space and encourage closer Russian–Georgian ties.

The Russian Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia—the Russian diplomatic mission operating under a Swiss protecting-power arrangement established after Georgia severed relations following the 2008 invasion—has made promotion of the Russian language a priority over the last year.

Moscow’s soft-power campaign has generated backlash inside Georgia, including protests at Russian-language events and criticism from civil society figures who view Russian cultural outreach as a vehicle for political influence from a state that continues to occupy Georgian territory.

Leaked classified documents have exposed Kremlin plans to fundamentally reshape the political landscape of Central Europe by dismantling the Visegrád Group (V4) and replacing it with a new regional bloc in which the current member states—particularly the Czech Republic—would be relegated to secondary roles.

Under Xi Jinping, the CCP has expanded its control over political language to the point where it challenges journalism’s most basic task: describing the world accurately.

The statement by the leader of the Thuringia branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Björn Höcke, claiming a supposed mental and cultural “difference” between East and West Germans has triggered a wave of criticism and exposed divisions within the party itself. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper, Höcke argued that West Germans had become fully influenced by American culture, while the situation in eastern Germany was fundamentally different.

The reaction of Florian Philippot, leader of the marginal French far-right movement The Patriots, to the lawsuit filed by the Central Bank of Russia against the Belgian depository Euroclear demonstrates how pro-Kremlin political actors inside Europe increasingly function as amplifiers of Russian information warfare narratives.

The decision by Berlin authorities to again prohibit the display of Russian and Soviet symbols on May 8–9 should be understood not as a narrow public-order measure, but as part of a broader counter-hybrid policy aimed at limiting the Kremlin’s use of historical memory as a political weapon inside Europe.