Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare - Thomas Rid
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Publisher’s Summary
This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms
We live in the age of disinformation - of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was “carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign” to disrupt the democratic process. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new.
The story of modern disinformation begins with the clash between communism and capitalism after the Russian Revolution, which would come to define the Cold War. In Active Measures, Rid reveals startling intelligence and security secrets from materials written in more than 10 languages across several nations, and from interviews with current and former operatives. He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for the first time some of the century’s most significant operations - many of them nearly beyond belief. A White Russian ploy backfires and brings down a New York police commissioner; a KGB-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign creeps back across the Berlin Wall; the CIA backs a fake publishing empire, run by a former Wehrmacht U-boat commander that produces Germany’s best jazz magazine. Rid tracks the rise of leaking, and shows how spies began to exploit emerging internet culture many years before WikiLeaks. Finally, he sheds new light on the 2016 election, especially the role of the infamous “troll farm” in St. Petersburg as well as a much more harmful attack that unfolded in the shadows.
Active Measures takes the listener on a guided tour deep into a vast hall of mirrors old and new, pointing to a future of engineered polarization, more active and less measured - but also offering the tools to cut through the game of deception.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
©2020 Thomas Rid (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
May 4th, 2023
Old MacPutin had a troll farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that troll farm he had - Wobbly1933 & his Putin prop pals. This site is full of such bots like those, mindlessly ignorant characters for whom “active measures” such as distortion & weaponised falsehood are almost a language. They routinely blame Ukrainian victims of murder and rape for their own suffering.
The ideologically-engineered, anti-Semitic hate campaign is disturbingly revealing, and far from being a merely historic factor.
Welcome stuff, mr p.
May 4th, 2023
Posted on May 26, 2020 by Milton MuellerFree Expression Online, Geopolitics of IG:
“Few social scientists have advanced studies at the intersection of information technology and security as much as Thomas Rid. His 2011 book, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, analyzed cyber conflict from a critical point of view, shattering the myth that actual wars would be fought and won through cyber means, and offering a more realistic characterization of the relationship between cyber-infrastructure and military conflict among states.
Rid’s latest book, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, takes on information operations, those organized acts of deception, leaks of confidential information, forgery and political manipulation via public media that governments use to weaken their opponents. Unlike cybersecurity, which deals with the technical confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and networks, active measures are about semantics, about the meaning and interpretation of content. In our polarized environment, with the Right screaming about “fake news” and dismissing everything in the “lame-stream media,” and the Left claiming that YouTube elected Brazil’s Bolsonaro and the Russians elected President Trump, the topic could not be more central.
Rid shows that he knows how to attack a theme that is white hot while maintaining high standards of scholarly investigation and argumentation. His account is a sincere attempt to understand the phenomenon and he offers a mostly well-balanced account (I will address some of the omissions later). Unlike his cheesier counterparts, who trade on the sensationalized concept of “information warfare” and aim to exploit the political divisions it has created, Rid offers a carefully focused and empirically grounded treatment of the topic.”
May 4th, 2023
How i wish that i had the ability to just filter out all political books from the front page.
May 4th, 2023
I can not tolerate fries in gravy and cheese, especially since Poutine invaded the Dumbass region.
May 5th, 2023
Say I am unable to win a debate, if I cry to the moderators that I need this space made safe by removing commenter X will they do it?
May 5th, 2023
@caesar963 lmao. Always a pleasure seeing your support
May 5th, 2023
@fritzreg thank you for posting this review. I always try to post serious books (written by scholars not journalists)
May 6th, 2023
Thank you Mr Pride!
September 25th, 2025
Thank you Mr.Pride.
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