In this episode of NISKALA Signal Podcast, we explore a term that feels bureaucratic on the surface, but is quietly shaping the psychological terrain beneath our feet: FIMI—Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
While governments and institutions often frame FIMI as a strategic threat or policy challenge, we approach it differently: as a lived condition. A slow, systemic disruption of meaning. A method of interference that doesn’t seek to dominate your thoughts, but to dismantle your capacity for coherent belief.
This episode offers a clear and grounded introduction to FIMI’s structure, purpose, and psychological payload. We examine how foreign actors—both state and non-state—exploit existing fractures, deploy emotional manipulation, and flood information environments with contradiction, spectacle, and calibrated chaos. FIMI isn’t always trying to convince you of something. More often, it simply wants to leave you confused, outraged, or numb.
We’ll also discuss why most countermeasures fail—not because they are wrong, but because they are surface-level. Detection, moderation, and fact-checking can only go so far when the real target is the public’s sensemaking infrastructure itself.
P.S.: The audio in this episode was AI-generated as a part of our ongoing exploration. It forms one of our live testbeds for narrative engineering.
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