technologia: Disinformation attack

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Disinformation attacks are strategic deception campaigns involving media manipulation and internet manipulation, to disseminate misleading information, aiming to confuse, paralyze, and polarize an audience. Disinformation can be considered an attack when it involves orchestrated and coordinated efforts to build an adversarial narrative campaign that weaponizes multiple rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also truths, half-truths, and value-laden judgments—to exploit and amplify identity-driven controversies. Disinformation attacks use media manipulation to target broadcast media like state-sponsored TV channels and radios. Due to the increasing use o…

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Weapon and Poison: Framing Disinformation in European Commission Speeches, 2016–2024. Drawing on 238 speeches delivered by European Commission (EC) presidents, vice-presidents, and commissioners (2016–mid-2024), this paper examines how the ECnarrates “disinformation”. Using topic modelling, text-community detection, andqualitative content analysis, we show a generally self-absolving and fatalisticframing. Disinformation is considered the root cause of unwanted behaviours andevents, naturalized as a technological inevitability given citizen gullibility. Moreover,responsibility for the spread of disinformation is externalized to hostile states, “badactors”, and digital platforms. Battlefield…

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AI-driven disinformation: policy recommendations for democratic resilience.. The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital communication platforms has significantly transformed the landscape of information dissemination. Recent evidence indicates that AI-enabled tools, particularly generative models and engagement-optimization algorithms, play a central role in the production and amplification of disinformation. This phenomenon poses a direct challenge to democratic processes, as algorithmically amplified falsehoods systematically distort political information environments, erode public trust in institutions, and foster polarization - conditions that degrade democr…

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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

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The 2020 commission report on the North Korean nuclear attacks against the United States: a speculative novel

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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States

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Misunderstanding Terrorism: <i>The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States</i> by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks W. W. Norton, 2004, 567 pages

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The Russian government conducted foreign electoral interference in the 2016 United States elections with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. According to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the operation—code named "Project Lakhta"—was ordered directly by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The "hacking and disinformation campaign" to damage Clinton and help Trump became the "core of the scandal known as Russiagate". The Internet Research Agency (IRA), based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and described as a troll farm, created thousands of soc…

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Emotionally based strategic communications as a new tool in defensive cognitive warfare.. In modern cognitive warfare, adversaries deliberately target human cognition, emotion, belief, trust, and decision-making processes, seeking to destabilize democratic societies through disinformation and divergent media campaigns. This article argues that the growing accessibility and vulnerability of the human emotional brain to external influence in a technologically connected world has important repercussions for global defense and security strategy. Recent EU/NATO strategic documents emphasize the need to strengthen resilience, counter hybrid/cognitive threats, and protect societies against disinfo…