Disinfolklore in Executive Orders

Why we need a concept of Disinfolklore and to understand the laws of Sympathetic Magic and Contagion in anti-disinformation work today.

In the past few weeks, the United States government has published an Executive Order and a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) that use Disinfolklore about an entirely fictional character called ‘Antifa’ to justify entirely un-American activities by the Federal government…

It’s precisely the pattern I watched the Russians use in Russia-occupied Ukraine (where I worked as a diplomat 2015-2018).

Source: Twitter Note (UNIQUE — Oct 2025)

War Magic deployed at the highest level of state power. The author identifies Executive Orders and National Security Presidential Memoranda using Disinfolklore about a fictional character — “Antifa” — to justify governmental actions. The critical observation is the pattern match: the same technique the author witnessed firsthand as a diplomat in Russia-occupied Ukraine (2015-2018) is now being replicated by the US federal government. This passage demonstrates that War Magic is not uniquely Russian; it is a transferable technology of authoritarian control.

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