Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

2 episodes

Chapter 1: The Zone
2/03/2026 | 50 mins.
When Frances Haugen worked on Facebook’s counter-espionage team, she uncovered massive PSYOP operations intended to spark violent uprisings. In this chapter, we hear Frances’ story, learn how troll farmers in Russia have evolved, and author Gregg Hurwitz uncovers the methods they use to try to destroy America from within.

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Chapters:

(00:52) - The Murder of a College Professor
(05:13) - Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Speaks Out
(09:15) - The Birth of Unrestricted Warfare
(10:40) - Lessons From ‘The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street’
(15:42) - Vladislav Surkov and a New Approach to PSYOPs
(24:50) - Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Rise of the Internet Research Agency
(29:51) - Uncovering PSYOPs on Facebook
(42:57) - A PSYOP Unfolds in Real Time
(47:59) - The Algorithm Effect

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Prologue: Who's Really Pulling the Strings?
1/26/2026 | 5 mins.
An introduction to Target Intelligence: PSYOP from Shawn Ryan

In each episode, we look at a different method of psychological operations, how they’ve evolved, and how they are being deployed. Here’s why getting to the truth about PSYOPs matters.

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About Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY Explore the dark world of real psychological operations In this 10-episode docuseries, former Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and host of The Shawn Ryan Show, Shawn Ryan, takes listeners inside the real PSYOPs being conducted across the world. Discover how secret PSYOPs have shaped nations, manipulated minds, and continue to wage silent wars on the unsuspecting public. From paramilitary Russian troll farms and the Chinese Communist Party's cognitive warfare operations to intelligence agency infiltrations of Hollywood, social media influence campaigns, and even futuristic direct energy weapons, the series explores how sophisticated psychological operations have become. Featuring insights from whistleblowers, insiders, military officials, tech innovators, and intelligence experts, each episode takes us deeper into the rabbit hole to discover where these operations are headed—and how we can stop them. Who’s really pulling the strings? Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan is an IRONCLAD Original Sponsor: SBIR: If you’re serious about selling to the military, visit https://www.sbiradvisors.com Mention PSYOP and get your first month free.

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