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The Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information Age Statecraft
"In this Perspective, the authors urge strategists to consider a new concept for adapting U.S. grand strategy to the information age—noopolitik, which favors the use of “soft power”—as a successor...
An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why.
"In a time of extreme political polarization, algorithmically enforced filter bubbles, and fact patterns dismissed as fake news, Wikipedia has become one of the few places where we can meet to...
Hong Kong’s protest movement faces its defining moment
“You see the emergence of the truly decentralized, networked movement,” said Edmund Cheng, a professor of politics at Hong Kong Baptist University whose research group has interviewed 6,600...
"In a world where conspiracy theories — medical, scientific and, of course, political — are proliferating, this is more than just a useful insight. It should be the beginning of a new way of...
"Our work is cut out for us. If we fail, the world is at increasing risk of large-scale and long-term societal fracture, the end of the Enlightenment, and the start of an informational Dark Age...
"This paper defines information warfare and influence operations (IW/IO) as the deliberate use of information (whether true or false) by one party on an adversary to confuse, mislead, and...
A number of long-term trends, many reflecting the emergence of new information and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, are undermining the social and political stability and fundamental...
AI Is Making Fake News Look Real
"Disinformation is a serious problem. Synthetic disinformation—written not by humans but by computers—might emerge as an even bigger one. Russia already employs online “trolls” to sow discord;...
"The playbook of the aggressive policy advocate these days apparently recommends the weaponization of the narrative; turbocharging criticism through the “discovery” of criminal behavior in those...
"European Union investigators, academics and advocacy groups say the new disinformation efforts share many of the same digital fingerprints or tactics used in previous Russian attacks, including...
"Russian electoral interference is a long game: many of these methods are used, in varying degrees, far in advance of elections themselves, and only intensify during campaign periods. Influence...
Once on the fringes, Vox blazed across the Internet, dividing its own country while connecting with the far right in many others. Now it’s in parliament.
"The links and connections are certainly visible online. Among those watching the rise of Vox in the Spanish elections was a Madrid-based company called Alto Data Analytics. Alto, which...
Nicolas Maduro has deployed a social media apparatus, coordinated by current and former government officials to preserve his hold on power amid a challenge from Juan Guaido.
The government’s self-described “digital militia,” drives government-sponsored hashtags, intended to bolster Maduro and undermine his opponents, to the top of Twitter’s “trending topics” for...
Russia’s 2016 memetic warfare is generating pearl clutching monographs
"Meme warfare is definitely a thing. Memes are a significant component of how far right extremists recruit young men into white supremacy. Memes provide, via their veneer of humor, a deniable way...
"The true value of online propaganda is the real-time response from the audience. The real-time response is what enabled the RIRA to iterate on messaging, refining and changing it based on data...
Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers, and here’s what I learned about Twitter’s spam detection tools
When social proof on Twitter is defined by the number of non-bot followers and retweets that you have, what happens when an anonymous actor suddenly inflates your number of bot-based followers?...
An understanding of culture and Worldview Theory can provide a diagnostic framework. Targeted groups, or victims, may share common identifiable features that can be used or manipulated to produce...
The article identifies Russian tactics used throughout social media platforms in the United States that were aimed at American voters. Due to the sheer volume of posts and messages from Russian...
How lies become truth in online America
This article illustrates the difficulty in using humiliation and ridicule to inoculate people against false online narratives. It shows how clearly marked satirical articles to go viral online,...
Misinformation and social networks have sullied the country’s politics since at least 2010. This time, it was worse than ever.
The evolving techniques in distributing narrative materials combined with a coordinated distribution platform that moved misinformation through WhatsApp groups made disinformation in the 2018...