Dear Colleagues, In spite of efforts to silence it, I'm glad to share news of my research making an impact this month. For my doctorate researched military adaptation of Information Operations to digital age challenges. Now, 5 years after my article examined <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517750741> internal Pentagon debates over the nature of policy changes made to enable internet age propaganda tactics... Facebook and Twitter have finally taken down the US military's PSYOP which they now acknowledge broke their platforms' rules. Some of the posts have been released and examined in a report <https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nj914nx9540/unheard-voice-tt.pdf>by Graphika and Stanford. And my prior article <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517750741> into the policies and changes in tactics that enabled these campaigns has been covered in the Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/20/military-pentagon-fake-social-media/> and the Pentagon's tactics are finally under review. It's time for a much-needed public debate. No-one said being a propaganda scholar would be easy, but I never imagined when I graduated from my PhD, that one day I would be getting profiled by the esteemed free expression organization Index on Censorship. There needs to be more support and understanding of the unique <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1578088810667180044?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9RHdGwPU0gzxnSg> threats and challenges faced by scholars if we want to enable them to produce work that makes an impact. And I am not alone <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1578088810667180044?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9RHdGwPU0gzxnSg>. I am grateful to have supportive allies and I hope you will find the Index interview interesting: The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters <https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2022/09/the-woman-exposing-the-propaganda-puppet-masters/> . I am also happy to share new episodes of my YouTube show 'Afternoon Tea and Truth Biscuits' where I talk about Cold War black propaganda campaigns with Prof. Rory Cormac <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQRmiaSIpos> (University of Nottingham) and discuss Diasporas as Cyberwarriors with Dr. Dmitry Chernobrov <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrt61cmiheo> (University of Sheffield). I hope to see you in the audience for the Next show too on <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1577386839471640576?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9RHdGwPU0gzxnSg> 18th October with Dr. Rizwaan Sabir talking about his book 'The Suspect' <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/04/26/book-review-the-suspect-counterterrorism-islam-and-the-security-state-by-rizwaan-sabir/>, which draws on both his research into Islamophobia and his experience of being wrongly accused after obtaining an Al-Qaeda publication required for his studies of Counter-terrorism. Watch and share here. <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1577386839471640576?s=20&t=QXuXh_-9RHdGwPU0gzxnSg> Thank you all as always for your continued support for my work. Best wishes, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin