Announcement: The Re-Return of the Global Influence Operations Report (GIOR)

As you may be aware, we announced last Decem­ber that the Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) would resume after a sev­en-month break. We ini­ti­at­ed this revival with the best of inten­tions; how­ev­er, as the say­ing goes, “good inten­tions.…” While not bur­den­ing you with expla­na­tions, it’s evi­dent we went silent again after a few months. Embrac­ing the adage “third time’s a charm,” we are pleased to declare our re-return. In our ongo­ing effort to serve, we’ve intro­duced some changes to our for­mat. Posts will now be struc­tured in three segments:

1. An intro­duc­tion to the pri­ma­ry source.
2. An excerpt com­pris­ing the ini­tial lines from that source, accom­pa­nied by a “Read More” link.
3. The four most sig­nif­i­cant points derived from the source.

These key points are gen­er­at­ed with the aid of AI, sig­nif­i­cant­ly light­en­ing our work­load. We hope this revamped for­mat will enable read­ers to swift­ly scan the con­tent and deter­mine whether to delve into the orig­i­nal source. In addi­tion, time per­mit­ting, we also hope to gen­er­ate some longer form content.

Addi­tion­al­ly, we’ve reor­ga­nized the post cat­e­gories by elim­i­nat­ing Qatar and Turkey, inte­grat­ing these posts into a new cat­e­go­ry titled “Glob­al.” This adjust­ment allows us to expand our cov­er­age to more nations beyond the main influ­encers in the space—Russia, Chi­na, and Iran, each retain­ing their exclu­sive cat­e­gories. While the transna­tion­al Islamist net­work cat­e­go­ry remains intact, we’re intro­duc­ing a nov­el transna­tion­al cat­e­go­ry: the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA), which encom­pass­es the polit­i­cal coali­tion of right-wing and far-right groups glob­al­ly. (Pre­vi­ous­ly, we includ­ed GNCA under “Rus­sia”). As always, we take pride in being the sole pub­li­ca­tion to explore these transna­tion­al net­works with­in the realm of influ­ence operations.

With firm inten­tions to remain active this time, we echo our pre­vi­ous sen­ti­ments of grat­i­tude for your sus­tained inter­est in the GIOR. Giv­en the tur­bu­lent nature of the times, we are con­vinced that there is more need for the kind of infor­ma­tion we strive to pro­vide. As always, feel free to con­tact us with any ques­tions, com­ments, sug­ges­tions, or any­thing else you want us to know.

Warm regards,

GIOR Senior Editor