SITUATION ASSESSMENT In October 2022, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a coordinated inauthentic behavior campaign across multiple platforms that exemplified the blurred lines...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In September 2016, Facebook disclosed that Internet Research Agency (IRA) operatives purchased over 3,000 politically divisive advertisements, reaching an estimated 126 million American...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT: The Great Modern Con In March 2020, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University documented a striking convergence: the same psychological principles that enabled Depression-era...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In March 2022, researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue documented a 324% increase in extremist recruitment attempts targeting Ukrainian refugees across major...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In December 2023, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting European audiences through exploiting confirmation bias and availability...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In October 2024, NATO formally designated cognitive warfare as a sixth operational domain alongside land, sea, air, space, and cyber. This classification emerged...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In March 2022, the Stanford Internet Observatory published a comprehensive analysis of a documented influence operation spanning six years across 281 platforms, involving...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In February 2022, the Stanford Internet Observatory documented a sophisticated coordinated inauthentic behavior campaign targeting European audiences during the early weeks of Russia’s...
SITUATION ASSESSMENT In October 2022, the Digital Forensic Research Lab documented a coordinated information operation targeting European energy security discourse. The campaign, traced across 15...