Olga Belogolova 🌻
@olgs7.bsky.social
Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
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Olga Belogolova 🌻
@olgs7.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Starter pack of ppl working in influence operations, disinformation, propaganda, information environment space. This is an iteration of a list I maintained in the bad place called “disinformation braintrust.” I’m selective here to avoid the bs artists. Lemme know if I missed ppl
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"Minneapolis, Minnesota reminds me of a politically torn, unstable country in a transitional period before full-blown war with a repressive government. Maidan-era Ukraine, for example."
A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...
A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...
Intolerable Things
We'll all be Minneapolis soon.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Minneapolis, Minnesota reminds me of a politically torn, unstable country in a transitional period before full-blown war with a repressive government. Maidan-era Ukraine, for example."
A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...
A haunting and important piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...
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Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
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Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social says a DOGE employee’s reported Social Security data breach could be a violation of the Privacy Act. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social says a DOGE employee’s reported Social Security data breach could be a violation of the Privacy Act. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
January 22, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The Board of Peace is to other international institutions as Truth Social is to other social media.
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Trump: We've got a deal
Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf
The media:
Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf
The media:
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Trump: We've got a deal
Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf
The media:
Literally everyone else: No we don't, wtf
The media:
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The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
www.mprnews.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 AM
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
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i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
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Normal people don’t think it’s ok to execute someone bc their kids dad is dead btw.
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Normal people don’t think it’s ok to execute someone bc their kids dad is dead btw.
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows.
If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public.
The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.
Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows.
If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public.
The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.
Stephen Miller: This whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing and groveling and begging—
Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.
Host: I don't even know what you're talking about right now. I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows.
If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public.
The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.
Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows.
If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public.
The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.
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Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
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The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.
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New tonight: More surprising than Maduro’s capture was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro was plucked out of Caracas, but the more shocking news was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.
www.theatlantic.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 AM
New tonight: More surprising than Maduro’s capture was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices..."“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices..."“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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guys bari lost glem
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
guys bari lost glem
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Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
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anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties
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Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.
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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
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The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant. by Jakob Moll
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant. by Jakob Moll
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...