Will Hurd Quotes

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

A hit and run propagandist on the Kremlin model.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.

Reflexive control is a 'uniquely Russian' technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation. The idea is to feed your adversary a set of assumptions that will produce a predictable response: That response, in turn, furthers a goal that advances your interests.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.

We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we had a general understanding of that. But now, as time has elapsed and time has gone on, I've certainly learned a lot more about the depth and breadth of what the Russians were about.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.