In 1971, psychologist B.F. Skinner demonstrated that pigeons could be conditioned to obsessively peck at levers through variable ratio reinforcement schedules—the same psychological mechanism that...
Operation Overlord’s Deceptive Legacy in Cold War Propaganda Imagine you’re a Soviet intelligence analyst in 1952, poring over captured German archives about Allied deception operations...
The Ideological Battlefield: How Cold War Propaganda Shaped Modern Information Warfare In 1961, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stood before the United Nations General Assembly and...
The cognitive vulnerability of confirmation bias in modern disinformation warfare In 2016, a fabricated story claiming Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump spread across social...
When Psychological Science Becomes Adversarial Tradecraft In December 2019, attackers impersonating a CEO convinced a Hong Kong subsidiary to transfer $35 million to fraudulent accounts...
Understanding Online Radicalization Pathways in the Digital Age In 2018, researchers at YouTube conducted an internal investigation into their recommendation algorithm’s role in directing viewers...
The Cognitive Architecture Behind Modern Information Warfare In October 2016, Russian operatives designed social media advertisements with surgical precision, targeting swing voters in Pennsylvania with...
Operation Infektion: How Soviet disinformation created the AIDS conspiracy theory In March 1987, a seemingly credible medical report appeared in a Kenyan newspaper claiming that...
The Persistence of Disinformation: How Operation Infektion Shaped Modern Cognitive Warfare In 1987, as the AIDS epidemic ravaged communities worldwide, a survey revealed that 30%...