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🚀 Tech Command Investing - Episode 6 Recap

October 16, 2025

Alain Gavin

Alain Gavin

Managing Partner - Chief Investment Officer

🚀 Tech Command Investing - Episode 6 Recap

The Invisible War: Disinformation as the New Frontline of Security

In Episode 6, host Alain Gavin sits down with Ksenia Iliuk, Founder and CEO of Let’s Data, to uncover how the next generation of warfare is being fought — not with missiles, but with narratives, algorithms, and influence operations.

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🔸 From Ukraine’s Frontline to Global Awareness — Drawing from Ukraine’s decades-long battle against Russian information warfare, Ksenia explains how Let’s Data was born out of necessity — to defend against the invisible attacks that shape global perception and political outcomes.
🔸 Not About “Fake News” — About Organized Crime — Disinformation isn’t a content problem or a censorship debate; it’s a coordinated, well-funded operation aimed at undermining institutions. Let’s Data treats it as a matter of security and defense, not moderation.
🔸 The Rise of Disinformation Security — As cyber and cognitive warfare converge, a new market is forming. Let’s Data is pioneering this field, providing early detection tools for governments, militaries, and corporations to identify and neutralize influence campaigns before they escalate.
🔸 AI Model Poisoning: The Next Threat Vector — Hostile actors are now flooding the web with synthetic content to poison large language models, seeding bias and misinformation into the AI systems that will power future decision-making.
🔸 Case Study: The OpenAI Impersonation Attack — Let’s Data uncovered a global malware campaign that cloned ChatGPT and Sora pages to spread malware, a striking example of AI-on-AI deception and how even advanced AI companies have critical blind spots.
🔸 Military Intelligence in the Narrative Space Working with NATO and Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ksenia’s team has detected information operations that revealed military intentions before ground offensives began proving that narrative warfare can predict kinetic warfare.
🔸 The 12-Hour Rule — In one European case, Let’s Data identified a Russian narrative operation 12 hours before it went viral but a delayed response allowed it to spread, showing how early detection must be matched by rapid action.
🔸 A New Sovereign Capability — Ksenia argues that disinformation security should be treated as a sovereign defense domain, on par with cyber and signals intelligence a hybrid threat that demands hybrid solutions.
As Ksenia Iliuk puts it:
“Disinformation isn’t a freedom-of-speech issue — it’s a matter of security, sovereignty, and survival.”
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🎧 Listen to the full episode to understand how Let’s Data is helping nations and investors confront the unseen war for digital truth.

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