In this episode of This Time Tomorrow, Benni and Omri talk to Sam Nazari about disinformation, information manipulation, influence operations, and how our knowledge and information space gets used up in order to drive an authoritarian agenda.

How do influence operations work? What are some examples of influence operations? Why is this NOT an issue of freedom of speech, but one of tackling hybrid warfare against democracy? What does freedom of speech actually constitute? And what can people who want to live in a democratic society do to ensure that we have an information system that actually works?

Mentioned in the episode: Alliance4Europe’s report on Russian attempts to interfere in the German federal election

Sam Nazari is an open-source intelligence researcher at Alliance4Europe, focusing on Chinese and Russian influence operations.

Source, audio clip at the start of the episode: Youtube, BR24 - “It is an existential moment…”

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