Analyzing information warfare, cognitive manipulation, and psychological operations. Understand the weapons. Build your defenses.
In September 2001, Americans believed plane hijackings were extraordinary events confined to distant headlines. Four months later, a survey revealed that 78% of respondents overestimated...
The Doctrine of Deception: Understanding Russian Military Maskirovka In March 2014, as unmarked soldiers appeared across Crimea, Western intelligence agencies found themselves confronting a phenomenon...
In February 2018, a federal indictment revealed that thirteen Russian nationals and three entities had conducted a systematic campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S....
In March 2018, Christopher Wylie sat across from British parliamentarians and methodically described how Cambridge Analytica had weaponized the personal data of 87 million Facebook...
In 1999, two Chinese colonels published a book that would reshape strategic thinking for decades. «Unrestricted Warfare» argued that future conflicts would unfold beyond traditional...
In December 2022, a face swap video depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announcing surrender circulated on social media before being quickly debunked and removed. The...
In 2016, Facebook’s internal documentation revealed that the platform could identify when teenagers felt «insecure,» «worthless,» or «stressed» — emotional states that advertisers could then...
Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and encountering a post claiming that government health agencies deliberately suppressed effective treatments during the pandemic. The post...
In 2020, a senior intelligence analyst at a European defense ministry found herself compromised not by foreign operatives wielding classified documents or financial incentives, but...