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Financial Times, en førende stemme for global neoliberalisme, har rost psykologiske indflydelsesoperationer, bedre kendt som Psyops, som et værdifuldt våben i 'krigen mod desinformation.'

Artiklen, der blev offentliggjort tidligere på ugen, bebrejder 'Rusland, Kina og Iran' for at bruge 'desinformation og onlinepropaganda til at forstærke anti-vax-stemningen og fremme politiske spændinger i Europa og USA.'

FT siger, at Mikael Tofvesson, leder af den svenske flådes nye Psyops-afdeling, mener, at 'udenlandske aggressorer' forsøger at 'så splittelse ved at målrette områder af offentlig bekymring såsom kriminalitet, Covid-vaccinationer, regeringens reaktion på pandemien og immigration.'


Kommentar: Delvist oversat af Sott.net fra Financial Times say 'psy-ops' are 'crucial weapon' against 'disinformation'


The FT goes on to praise western militaries for teaching the citizenry to "distinguish truth from falsehood" and urges more countries to take up arms against "the disinformation virus."

Via FT (paywalled):
But as with Covid, the most important task in psychological defence is to inoculate the population against believing false information — a job that Sweden's new agency will also handle. This involves teaching the public how to verify information. A citizenry able to distinguish truth from falsehoods is vital, not just from a national security perspective but for protection from more everyday threats such as quack cures peddled on the internet.

Other countries, too, should show they're serious about fighting the disinformation virus and immunising against it. Otherwise it will undermine our societies and render even the most sophisticated military defences useless.

Comment: Ironically, they're right: inoculation of the population against false information is incredibly important. It's unfortunate that the information they consider "false" is actually the truth.


Psychological operations have long been a part of military operations, and are typically defined as the use of propaganda and other methods to influence the attitudes and behavior of foreign adversaries.

What the FT is advocating — and what many have long suspected — is the use of these techniques by western military, security, and intelligence forces against their own citizens.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.