Foreign Office #20. Disinformation and Its Discontents

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Foreign Office #20. Disinformation and Its Discontents

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Mar 22, 2021

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Johns Hopkins scholar and “Active Measures” author Thomas Rid on the DNI report on Russian meddling and how 2020 is different from 2016.

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Mar 22, 2021

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Foreign Office is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Michael Weiss, from New Lines Magazine and Free Russia Foundation, dedicated to those ever-relevant subjects of Russian intelligence operations and active measures. Featured guests include prominent historians and scholars, journalists, diplomats, and ex-spies.

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Foreign Office #20. Disinformation and Its Discontents

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