Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the ...

Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View

Machine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because the attacks are so varied—and it seems that each new one is weirder than the next. Here’s the latest: a training-time attack that forces the ...
The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?

Persuasion is as old as our species. Both democracy and the market economy depend on it. Politicians persuade citizens to vote for them, or to support different policy positions. Businesses persuade consumers ...

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 ...
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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 ...
Security Boulevard

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 ...
Dr. Strangelove (7/8) Movie CLIP - Kong Rides the Bomb (1964) HD

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 ...
Via Cagle Comes This ThoPenned Editorial Cartoon Entitled 'The Torch of Truth'

Steve Sack’s ‘Russian Troll’

via Cagle.com comes this thought-provoking editorial cartoon entitled 'Russian Troll'by the eponymous Steve Sack. Permalink ...