Information War
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsLiz Wahl traces the roots and rise of modern political and religious extremists, conspiracy and disinformation movements aimed at breaking down democracy.
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Yasmine Mohammed on Antisemitism and How Western Voices Empower Hamas Propaganda
December 14, 2023 11:09 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBYasmine Mohammed is a human rights activist and author. She is an advocate for women in the Muslim world and Muslim communities, after having escaped from a fundamentalist family and a forced marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative. She discusses how some on the left empower radical Islam as we have seen at protests and on college campuses, antisemitism after the massacre in Israel, and the failure of Western feminists to meet the moment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify...
Yasmine Mohammed on Radical Islam, Antisemitism, and Failure of Western Feminism to Meet the Moment
December 14, 2023 11:09 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBYasmine Mohammed is a human rights activist and author. She is an advocate for women in the Muslim world and Muslim communities, after having escaped from a fundamentalist family and a forced marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative. She discusses how some on the left empower radical Islam as we have seen at protests and on college campuses, antisemitism after the massacre in Israel, and the failure of Western feminists to meet the moment. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify...
Russia is Using Food and Energy as a Weapon Against the World
June 02, 2022 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBA former member of Ukrainian Parliament and expert in energy security discusses how Russia is using food as a weapon. Ukraine grows enough food to feed 400 million people worldwide. Because of the war, crops won’t be planted and Russia has disrupted supply chains, possibly setting the conditions for a global food crisis. Liz and Jessikka speak to former member of Ukrainian Parliament, Ukrainian energy expert and environmental activist Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska about the war’s significance ...
Ukrainian Journalist on their Pulitzer Prize, Russia's Increasingly Nazi-like Rhetoric and War Crimes, and Disinformation Efforts to Influence Upcoming Elections in Democracies
May 12, 2022 11:20 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBLiz and Jessikka speak to Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk about the Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalists of Ukraine that continue to risk their lives despite being targeted for reporting the truth. As Ukraine officials say that Russia is forcibly deporting people from Mariupol and other areas in the country’s eastern region, they discuss how Russia is increasingly resembling Nazi-like behavior as it weaponizes the word Nazi to justify its war of aggression - from filtration camps to its rhe...
Renowned Finnish Intelligence Colonel on the KGB Information Warfare Playbook Russia is Using on Ukraine and the West
April 29, 2022 10:21 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBLiz and Jessikka speak to a renowned former Finnish intelligence Colonel about the KGB-style psychological tactics of Russia's information warfare currently used against Ukraine and the West. They discuss how culture and language differences can help explain why Russia and the West have completely different world views when it comes to democracy and truth. Martti J. Kari is a former intelligence Colonel in the Finnish Defense Forces and teaches at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Watc...
Russia Sanctions Canadians as Kremlin Propagandists Muse Over New Intercontinental Missiles Hitting the U.S.
April 22, 2022 08:25 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBRussia test-launches a new intercontinental missile that it says could carry nuclear warheads, sending a warning to the U.S. and Europe. Propagandists on Russian TV reacted by musing over such a weapon wiping out Western cities. Meanwhile, Estonia’s Parliament accuses Russia of genocide and Russia sanctions Canadian journalists and politicians. Liz and Jessikka speak with Canadian journalist Marcus Kolga about being among those newly sanctioned by Russia and the Kremlin’s information war as ...
Finnish Author and Journalist Jessikka Aro on the Pro-Democracy Targets of Putin’s Trolls and Finland Joining NATO
April 14, 2022 09:19 - 36 minutes - 34 MBAs President Biden calls Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a genocide, Russia repeats the lies and distortions that have become signature of its information war - calling the atrocities “fake” and “staged” and ordinary Ukrainian citizens "nazis." Putin’s lies and his systematic method of spreading them online, on television and through various proxies, has upended the lives of people daring to tell truths the autocrat wants to suppress. Finnish author and journalist Jessikka Aro uncovers the pro-...
Information War: Russia Weaponizes Conspiracy Theories to Deny War Crimes in Bucha
April 07, 2022 09:01 - 28 minutes - 26 MBAs civilians and journalists recount stories and evidence of war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha - systematic, execution-style killing of civilians and mass graves, Russia has responded with denials and lies. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called the atrocities “staged” and claimed the bodies were “fake dead bodies.” Liz and Jessikka discuss Russia’s war crimes and the conspiracy theories used to deny the atrocities with Jakub Kalensky, a former journalist and expert on Russian hybri...
Tiktok’s Next Level Disinformation Problem
April 01, 2022 13:17 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBLiz speaks with Alex Cadier, UK Managing Director of NewsGaurd, an organization that digitally combs the internet to rate news and websites. Their new report sheds light on the social media app Tiktok, and how it helps disinformation on the war in Ukraine go viral. They cover how the video platform can serve to undermine democracy and COVID vaccines, and new tools to combat the multi-billion dollar disinfo industry. How to Install Newsguard to help combat disinformation and promote reliable...
Information War: Ukraine’s Volunteer Intelligence Community, Patriotic Hackers, and Documenting Russian War Crimes
March 30, 2022 10:29 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn their new podcast, "Information War," Liz Wahl and Jessikka Aro speak with Artem Velichko, a Ukrainian editor at InformNapalm English. InformNapalm is a volunteer open source intelligence community, founded by Ukrainian journalists in 2014 to counter disinformation and uncover the truth about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. In today’s full scale war, Velichko discusses how the focus has shifted to full scale information warfare - providing intelligence to Ukrainians fighting the war on the ...
A Leading Violence Psychiatrist on Putin's Psychological State, Risk of Nuclear War, and the Danger of American Media Hosts Spreading Russian Disinformation
March 18, 2022 17:53 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAs Russia indiscriminately targets civilians in its invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech echoing Stalin. Violence expert and Yale Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee interprets what the speech indicates about Putin’s psychological state, the risk of nuclear war, and the dangers of American media hosts spreading Russian disinformation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
A Ukrainian Politician on Life in Kyiv Amid Invasion Threats and Fighting the Information War
February 18, 2022 13:16 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBA Ukrainian politician tells us about life in Kyiv, Ukraine as Russia threatens to invade. Energy expert Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska, a former member of Ukrainian Parliament, tells us how citizens have worked to expose Russian lies in its information war, and the weaponization of energy in the region. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
How Russian Propaganda Lures Americans to Authoritarianism
February 11, 2022 09:18 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBSince Russia’s 2014 invasion and annexation of territory in Ukraine, fake news and a complex information war has been key to its political and military strategy. Today, as Russian troops mobilize on Ukraine’s borders, it’s churning out false narratives that Americans on political extremes are falling for. A digital intelligence analyst discusses the current effort to turn Americans towards Authoritarianism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/mes...
A Psychiatric Analysis of America’s Mass Radicalization
January 20, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBDr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, Yale Law School professor and editor of New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Asses a President examines the shared psychosis and deep psychiatric pathology that has infected and radicalized millions of Americans. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
The Political Rage of Men that Can’t Get Laid
January 13, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBLiz speaks to Timothy Wilson, Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews about the “incel” movement, the link between sex and far-right extremism, and why the rage of men that are unlucky at love is a political story. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
Christian Nationalism, Conspiracy, and a Curious Admiration for the Taliban
September 17, 2021 09:14 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBLiz Wahl speaks to Political Scientist Paul DJupe about the role of religion in the embrace of conspiracy, authoritarianism and partisan admiration for the Taliban. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
The Right to Lie
September 09, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBWhat lies go too far under the law? Mass lies on the internet have put public health and democracy in peril. Jeff Kosseff, a law professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and author of the book, “The 26 Words that Created the Internet” discusses the legal limits of the right to lie.
Republican Defector Warns of Anti-Vaxxer Violence Against Local Officials
August 18, 2021 11:43 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBA former Republican that now tracks extremism in his former party warns that instead of a January 6th style attempted coup, former Trump officials are working on the grassroots level by encouraging anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists to target local officials such as school board members. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
Tucker Carlson Goes Abroad to Praise Authoritarianism, A QAnon Father Kills His 2 Kids
August 13, 2021 15:24 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBTucker Carlson goes abroad to praise authoritarians and a QAnon father kills his two kids. A conversation with a former Republican that left the party he says is now a cult. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
The Disinformation Insurrection
February 02, 2021 11:59 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MBLiz Wahl speaks to Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro about her battle to hold online trolls and disinformation superspreaders accountable in the courtroom. After years of investigating foreign propaganda campaigns targeting the U.S., we examine the evolution of an information war that pushed Americans to alternate realities and political extremism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
Truthers
January 17, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBLiz Wahl dives in to the real-world consequences of the "truther" movements, conspiracy theories and hoaxes tied to tragedies such the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and other mass shootings. This episode explores the psychology of disinformation that destroys rational society. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message
Radicalized
January 17, 2021 19:00 - 10 minutes - 7.22 MBLiz Wahl traces the roots and rise of America's modern white supremacist movement --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liz-wahl/message