In 2016, Facebook’s internal documentation revealed that the platform could identify when teenagers felt «insecure,» «worthless,» or «stressed» — emotional states that advertisers could then...
Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and encountering a post claiming that government health agencies deliberately suppressed effective treatments during the pandemic. The post...
In 2020, a senior intelligence analyst at a European defense ministry found herself compromised not by foreign operatives wielding classified documents or financial incentives, but...
In December 2020, a senior IT administrator at a major U.S. water treatment facility clicked on what appeared to be a routine software update notification....
Media literacy as a mental shield: Building cognitive defenses in an age of weaponized information Imagine analyzing an intelligence report in your secure facility when...
In October 2020, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a troubling pattern across Facebook’s network in Myanmar. Users who followed mainstream news sources were...
Cold War Psychological Operations: Doctrine, Deployment, and the Enduring Intelligence Challenge In 1950, the United States Army established its first formal Psychological Warfare Center at...
The shadow war of the 21st century operates not through conventional weapons, but through carefully crafted narratives designed to reshape how entire populations think and...
In December 2016, Russian state media outlets broadcast nearly identical segments claiming that Ukrainian forces had crucified a three-year-old boy in eastern Ukraine. The story...