Russia’s 2016 Election Interference: Dissecting the Mueller Investigation’s Findings On July 13, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office unsealed indictments against twelve Russian intelligence officers...
The Fifth Domain: Cyberspace as a Battlefield In December 2015, Ukrainian power grids went dark across three distribution companies, leaving 230,000 people without electricity for...
Generative adversarial networks: The technology reshaping why people believe conspiracies In October 2020, a deepfake video of Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès appeared to show...
The Cognitive Architecture of Conspiratorial Thinking In February 2016, Russian state media began amplifying claims that the U.S. military was developing biological weapons in Georgia’s...
The BITE Model: Understanding Systematic Control in Coercive Environments In 2019, former members of the political organization LaRouche PAC described a familiar pattern to exit...
The Psychological Vulnerability Gap in Cybersecurity When the Democratic National Committee fell victim to APT 28’s spear-phishing campaign in 2016, the initial breach vector wasn’t...
The Architecture of Deception: How Cognitive Biases Shape National Security Vulnerabilities In 2016, researchers at Oxford’s Internet Institute documented how Russian information operations systematically exploited...
Persuasive design: platforms built to manipulate In 1957, Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders exposed how advertisers weaponized psychology to influence consumer behavior. Six decades later,...
The Evolution of Mind as Battlefield: Understanding Psychological Warfare in World War I In October 1917, British intelligence officers dropped millions of leaflets over German...