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Propaganda

Propaganda is strategic persuasion: selective truth, repetition, symbolism, and emotional leverage used to shape belief and behaviour. This hub examines techniques, delivery systems, and how propaganda blends with modern platform dynamics to create polarisation, compliance, or hostility.

Two Wartime Videos, one Battlespace

Two Wartime Videos, one Battlespace

Two wartime videos. Two propaganda languages. One polished and state-centered, the other mythic and identity-driven. Different aesthetics, same strategic aim: to shape perception, steer emotion, and compete over meaning long before facts are weighed in depth.

The Invisible Army: Bots, Trolls, and the Architecture of Cognitive Warfare

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The Invisible Army: Bots, Trolls, and the Architecture of Cognitive Warfare

Armies of bots and human trolls now operate at industrial scale. The tactics are old. The cost has collapsed. This briefing maps the architecture, names the effects, and tells you what protection practice needs to look like in this environment.

TikTok USDS and Cognitive Warfare: Shifting the Threat Model from External to Internal

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TikTok USDS and Cognitive Warfare: Shifting the Threat Model from External to Internal

A thesis-based reassessment of TikTok’s strategic risk profile: how the USDS (U.S. Digital Security) deal alters the foreign control threat model, and which influence and governance questions remain unresolved.

Inside the Noise: How Narrative Became the New Risk Domain.

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Cognitive domain

Inside the Noise: How Narrative Became the New Risk Domain.

Storytelling has evolved from a branding tool into a strategic shield in contested perception spaces. It started with a Wall Street Journal article about companies paying serious money for storytellers. Most mornings, when I don’t work out, I meditate, then have my coffee and read the news. This one

When Your Ally Starts Campaigning In Your House.

Influence Operations

When Your Ally Starts Campaigning In Your House.

I remember a discussion we had during our international relations class, back when we still called the system “unipolar”. Someone asked what the world would look like if it slid back toward multipolarity. What framework would we use? How would we know we were already there? Looking back, one of