The terms “disinformation” and “Information warfare” were not coined until long after 1775, but America’s Founding Fathers absolutely understood the importance of them and controlling the narrative.
U.S. Special Operations Command (USASOC) announced on Saturday that it conducted its first simulated defense of Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.
The alleged hacking of the ProtonMail accounts of Brexit supporters including a former spy chief and leading Members of Parliament (MPs) was the work of Russian hackers, an official from ProtonMail competitor Google has claimed.
The Navy recently hosted an “inaugural diversity, equity, and inclusion summit” for information warfare sailors.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday declared total victory in the “ambitious war to shape global opinion” during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Ukraine on Wednesday shut down several television channels owned by businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the action as “difficult” but necessary to protect his country against propaganda from the “aggressor country” of Russia.
Chinese state-run media made much of a tiny rally held in Los Angeles on Sunday to oppose the Hong Kong protest movement and accuse it of using violence to achieve its ends.
The South China Morning Post on Wednesday noted a sharp escalation in Chinese information warfare against the Hong Kong protest movement as an army of trolls poured out of a forum supported by Chinese state media to push pro-Beijing memes and harass protest supporters.
If a fair and thorough investigation establishes that Jussie Smollett faked the attack he claimed was perpetrated by white men wearing MAGA hats, then he should be charged with a hate crime. Fake hate crimes are hate crimes.
