PSYOP Manual for the US Army

Like to see how the US Army planned to psychologically manipulate foreign populations? It might be especially interesting now that we know that these techniques have now been turned against Americans. Here's Robert Malone's short post along with a link to the army PSYOP manual.

What is a PSYOP? According to p. A3 of the manual:

1.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP)

Psychological Operations are planned to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of PSYOP is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives.

I then asked Grok:

What types of psyop techniques described in this 1999 Army Psyop manual are being utilized by corporate media today to skew public understanding of what is going on in the world or how to think about it?

Grok's response:

Psyop Techniques from the 1999 Manual and Parallels in Corporate Media

The 1999 Joint Psychological Operations Task Force Headquarters Master Training Guide (CJCSM 3500.08) outlines frameworks for military psyop, focusing on influencing foreign audiences through planned information dissemination, analysis, and evaluation. While it's a military document (canceled in 2004), its principles—such as propaganda, deception, and target analysis—bear resemblance to strategies observed in corporate media today. Corporate media, including major networks and social platforms, often shapes public perception through selective framing, emotional appeals, and rapid narrative amplification, which can skew understanding of global events or issues like politics, economics, and social dynamics.

Below is a table summarizing key techniques from the manual, their descriptions, and observed parallels in modern corporate media. These parallels are drawn from analyses of media practices, including psychographic targeting, misinformation campaigns, and sentiment manipulation. Note that media entities may not intentionally label their actions as "psyop," but the effects align with the manual's methods. Claims are substantiated where possible from diverse sources, including academic studies, investigative reports, and public discourse, representing viewpoints from military, tech, and conspiracy-oriented perspectives.

Click "More" for Grok's table.

These techniques aim to induce favorable attitudes in the manual's context, but in media, they can skew understanding by prioritizing engagement over accuracy—e.g., dividing audiences ("us vs. them") or exploiting biases like Magruder's Principle (reinforcing pre-existing beliefs). Diverse sources note this in politics (e.g., election interference) and business (e.g., market manipulation), with X discussions highlighting perceived ops in everyday news. While not all media actions are deliberate psyops, the patterns enable narrative control at scale.

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EU Wages Vast Censorship Attacks Against US

Under no circumstances, should we allow EU countries to determine what American citizens should and should not say by levying existential fines on social media companies. There are a lot of important things going on right now, but I consider this the most important. Michael Shellenberger has been reporting on this threat for many months.

Mike Benz elaborates on this threat:

This is an issue on which the two political parties fundamentally differ. On the conduct of the Biden administration, a president, Harris would have invited this censorship. We won't now see how strongly President Trump can fight it. Success is by no means guaranteed here, as Benz explains.

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The World Changed, Not Me

My experience is similar. I was considered liberal for decades. I voted for Obama twice, then for Hillary and Joe Biden. I canvassed for Bernie and Hillary. Then unknown people/entities pummeled all of us with propaganda/censorship causing most "liberal" people I knew to flip without any explanation and often without any concern for the contradictions based on their former recent positions. Such a bizarre thing to witness. For the most part, I'm not the one who changed.

Colin Wright illustrated it well with this simple cartoon:

[Supp Feb 4, 2026]

"A new measure of issue polarization using k-means clustering: US trends 1988–2024 and predictors of polarization across the world."

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Michael Shellenger: The Never-Ending Battle Against Censorship

Michael Shellenberger has warned European lawmakers about an effort by both Europeans and Americans to censor us all. I highly recommend his entire article and video. Excerpt from an article that is definitely not hyperbole: "Within Three Years, The Most Intolerant People On Earth Could Control The Internet."

What is the Censorship Industrial Complex? The model isn’t that complicated to understand. The government chooses people whom they call “researchers” to serve as censors. These are government-funded individuals who often come from the intelligence community and foreign policy establishment. They work at non-governmental organizations funded by governments or at universities funded by governments. They conduct “fact checks” to serve as “trusted flaggers.” These “trusted flaggers” demand censorship by social media platforms. It’s all done in secret.

They’re looking to censor narratives. This is essential because, as decades of good cognitive science have shown, people understand and retain information through storytelling. We think in terms of stories, not bullet points. And so they were out to censor whole narratives. From the Stanford censorship project on COVID, the “Virality Project,” they said they wanted to censor “true stories” of vaccine side effects.

Why? Because it might “fuel hesitancy.” In other words, they want to control your behavior. They don’t want you to receive true information that might lead you to not get the vaccine.

If that isn’t totalitarianism straight out of 1984, I don’t know what it. These people were on the verge of passing legislation in the United States that would’ve authorized the National Science Foundation to choose these “researcher” censors.

I’m presenting slides to Europeans and the world for situational awareness into what totalitarian politicians and bureaucrats have planned because this is still going strong.

Stanford helped the US government censor COVID dissidents, and then they lied about it. You might be detecting a pattern. They’re really not interested in censoring “misinformation.’ They’re very interested in censoring true information.

The censors flagged an Israeli preprint which came out in December, 2020 and found, lo and behold, that natural immunity is a real thing. In fact, it’s more protective than the vaccine.

But the censors flagged somebody’s Google Drive. “See the following Google Drive links being used to compile testimonies about vaccine shedding, Covid videos, showing side effects and whatnot.” Google then removed that content from that person’s Google Drive. You don’t control your Google Drive.

Contrary to Stanford’s claim that the project did not ask social media platforms to remove any content, they privately said they did. And we know that many hundreds of thousands of tweets and Facebook posts were removed, even though they were a hundred percent accurate. In fact, in 2021, Stanford’s “Virality Project” flagged accurate claims that the World Health Organization did not recommend vaccinating children.

The people who spread the misinformation are the people demanding the censorship. They claimed Covid couldn’t have come from a lab, that the Covid vaccine prevented infection, and that natural immunity didn’t exist.

The only solution to hate speech and misinformation is free speech. If you censor false information, how would anybody get the true information? The whole point is the debate.

They lied when they said false information travels faster than true information. It’s a completely bogus study and involved six seconds of content on Twitter.

Who are these people? As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees at Twitter that they called them “Bu alumni.” They created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals.

Intriguingly, we discovered that the general counsel of the FBI — arguably the second most powerful person of the FBI, or maybe the first, if you think, consider that what their actual job is to decide what the FBI can and can’t do — resigned from FBI in early 2020 and went to Twitter to take the deputy general counsel role.

Isn’t that interesting? Somebody in one of the most powerful legal positions in the world would take a junior legal role at a social media company. Why would that be? ...

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