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Artificial Personas and Public Discourse
Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on ...
Influence Operations Kill Chain
Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as the dissemination of propaganda in pursuit ...
Fake News and Pandemics
When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The ...
What Does Fake News Have to Do With Cybersecurity? A Lot
We’ve all heard of the fake news phenomena, especially over the last few years. As understood by the general public, fake news spreads false stories shared on social media that intend to ...
Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government
On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections ...
Simple.Concise.On-Target
What more do you want (or need, for that matter), in an astute and equally important - truthful - examination of what makes those pesky Rooskies tick. In this case, personified by ...
Steve Sack’s ‘Russian Troll’
via Cagle.com comes this thought-provoking editorial cartoon entitled 'Russian Troll'by the eponymous Steve Sack. Permalink ...
