Navigating Noise
by Filter Labs
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Why Influence Operations Still Can't Prove They Work, with Carrick…
Why Influence Operations Still Can't Prove They Work, with Carrick…
About this podcast
Navigating Noise is a weekly interview show about how critical decisions get made when the data behind them breaks down. Hosts Jonathan Teubner, founder of AI intelligence company FilterLabs, and Erol Yayboke, former Pentagon deputy chief of staff, talk with analysts, operators, and decision-makers working in intelligence and information operations. Each episode asks one question: how do you know what's actually happening in places that are hard to see? Season 2 covers the data supply chain behind info ops, the analyst under pressure, and the future of the craft.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Why Influence Operations Still Can't Prove They Work, with Carrick Longley @ ZenithFlow · 45 minFor two decades, the information operations community has sold activity. Messages disseminated, impressions served, reach and click rates. Carrick Longley spent his career inside…
- How to Turn a Noisy Internet Into Actionable Signals for Irregular Warfare (with Jonathan and Erol) · 36 minOne of these founders spent his twenties reading Augustine of Hippo in the original Latin, watching how a theologian made sense of an empire falling apart. The other spent his…
- The Influence Operation That Never Sent a Single Message | Stephen Hunnewell · 43 minNavigating Noise is a weekly interview show about how the world's most critical decisions get made, and what happens when the data behind them breaks down. Hosts Jonathan Teubner…
- How to Fill an Information Vacuum Before Your Enemy Does with Kristian Ljungberg · 39 minOn February 4, 2025, ten people were murdered at a school in Örebro, the deadliest mass shooting in Sweden's history. Then came a silence that the internet filled for days…
- Why People Believe AI Videos Even When They Know They're Fake · 48 minIn May, Ukrainians woke up to an avalanche of posts about hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding into their country, exempt from the draft, replacing Ukrainians, even…
- How to Tell What's Real Online in the Age of AI Bots | Tetiana Haiduchyk · 44 minFor 6 years, Tetiana Haiduchyk has run a controlled experiment most people never hear about. Her team goes onto the open market, pays a few hundred euros for fake social media…
- Why the US Keeps Losing the Wars It Spends the Most to Win | Dr. Joshua “Bugsy” Segal · 54 minFor ten years, Dr. Joshua "Bugsy" Segal's job was certainty. As a US arms-control negotiator and on-site weapons inspector (the Chemical Weapons Convention, UNSCOM in Iraq), he…
- NATO's StratCom Director Breaks Down the AI Information War | Jay Janzen · 40 minIn 2024, Jay Janzen told this show weaponized AI content was "minutes away." Two years later he's back with a blunt update: "We're definitely there." And the adversaries…
- Introducing Filter Labs’ New CEO: Why We Made the Transition and What’s Next · 38 minOn July 1, 2026, Jonathan Teubner walked out of the CEO seat at Filter Labs and Erol Yayboke sat down in it. This conversation was recorded that same day. Jonathan decided years…
- How Iran Won the Internet with Memes While Losing the War with Blaise Misztal · 56 minAmerica won the war against Iran on the ground and lost it on the screen. Iran's axis of resistance has collapsed, its proxies are spent, its nuclear program is set back, yet…
- Why War With China Is NOT Inevitable with U.S.-China Relations Expert Ali Wyne · 46 minWhen Trump called a meeting with Xi Jinping "the G-2," he may have admitted something Washington has spent years avoiding: China is no longer a rising challenger. It's a…
- How Microsoft Predicted the Ukraine War Before the Pentagon with CSIS Director Emily Harding · 37 minWhen Russia invaded Ukraine, it wasn't a general who saw it coming first… it was Microsoft. Sensors planted across Ukraine picked up a massive spike in cyberattacks on banks…
- Why Truth Is More Dangerous Than Lies in an Information War | Maggie Feldman-Piltch · 55 minMaggie Feldman-Piltch calls herself a propagandist, and she means it. She made stickers of Putin's face with the Barbie movie font that spread to over two dozen languages, and…
- How to (Actually) Apply New Technology to Irregular Warfare, with Nickolas Wilcox @ CACI · 48 minNickolas Wilcox is a Senior Program Manager at CACI International and one of the lead practitioners shaping the future of irregular warfare and operations in the information…
- → How UFOs, Data, and Counterculture Collide: Chrissy Newton on Alien Encounters & Government Transparency · 37 minIn this episode of Navigating Noise, host Erol Yayboke sits down with Chrissy Newton, Founder of VOCAB Communications. They dive into the world of UFOs and UAPs through the lens…
- Why the U.S.–China Relationship Feels So Tense Right Now, with Rorry Daniels, Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute · 44 minA new normal? In this episode, Rorry Daniels, Managing Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Erol Yayboke discuss U.S. - China competition and the changing global…
- Rethinking Demographics, Power, and the Future, with Dr. Jen Sciubba, President & CEO of Population Reference Bureau · 42 minThe world is changing faster than our assumptions can keep up. In this episode of Navigating Noise, Erol Yayboke sits down with world-renowned demographer and President of the…
- Why Media Isn’t Dying—It’s Just Getting Smarter with AI, with Dmitry Shishkin, CEO of Ringier Media International, Switzerland · 48 minWhat happens when generative AI floods the internet with content—but journalists are the only ones who can still read between the lines? In this episode of Navigating Noise…
- From Silicon Valley to Sovereignty: Tech’s Great Power Reckoning, with Ansgar Baums · 53 minWhat happens when the tech industry is no longer built for global scale—but for geopolitical advantage? In this episode of Navigating Noise, Jonathan Teubner sits down with…
- Weaponized AI, Women’s Influence Networks, and Why Defense Tech Fails with Maggie Feldman-Piltch · 47 minGenerative AI isn’t just changing technology—it’s rewriting the rules of information warfare, influence, and decision-making. In this episode of Navigating Noise, Jonathan…
