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How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
We investigated the effects of Facebook’s and Instagram’s feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered feeds instead of the default algorithms. Moving users out of algorithmic feeds s…
View full recordHybrid warfare: Strategies and countermeasures
theoretical and applied aspects of the russian-ukrainian war hybrid aggression and national resilience
In modern military science, there are processes of theoretical understanding of the realities of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the political, economic, military, virtual, and cognitive sectors, which today have become the theaters of military and…
View full recordIn Quest of Peace and its Subject
conatus - journal of philosophy
The dynamics of warfare have undergone significant transformations, necessitating a comprehensive reevaluation of the study of wars. It is no longer sufficient to solely focus on analyzing military operations, instead, a broader perspective is required. Postc…
View full recordLe cognitive warfare : contexte, concept et enjeux
ensc
Le cognitive warfare est un concept émergent dans la littérature, en lien avec le perfectionnement des nouvelles technologies et le développement des connaissances sur la cognition, ainsi que l’implication de l’opinion publique dans les conflits. Il est actue…
View full recordLes opérations d’influence psychologiques russes et la Maskirovka comme état d’esprit
ensc
Maskirovka is an ancient method of masking and concealing Soviet military actions. Today, it has become a veritable doctrine that permeates every dimension of the Russian state. It constitutes a culture of information manipulation and influence in the service…
View full recordlinguocultural specifics of artificial intelligence representation in the english language media discourse: corpus-based approach
vestnik volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta seriya 2 yazykoznanie
The article deals with the discursive construction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the English-language media discourse. Corpus methods establish semantic, figurative-perceptual and axiological specificity in the media representation of AI in various media…
View full recordMechanics and Experience in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Opportunities for Civic Empathy
simulation and gaming
Background: Videogames are widely considered effective learning environments, with powerful lessons relevant to those who design teaching and learning experiences. Violent videogames, however, are often left out of such conversations. Intervention: In this co…
View full recordMerging the Great Patriotic War and Russian warfare in Ukraine. A case-study of Russian military patriotic clubs in 2022
political research exchange
This article examines the exploitation of political war myths within military patriotic youth clubs in Russia, predominantly based on content from social media accounts. These clubs frequently propped up the ongoing warfare in Ukraine with narratives and symb…
View full recordModern Cognitive Operations and Hybrid Warfare
journal of strategic security
Concepts of cognitive warfare and operations are explored in the context of hybrid warfare, including how cyber technologies promote greater asymmetric opportunities for influence, control, and undermining of one’s adversary. Research areas are analyzed in th…
View full recordMulti-domain operations in hybrid warfare
theoretical and applied aspects of the russian-ukrainian war hybrid aggression and national resilience
The task to counter the aggressor, whose potential and resources significantly exceed the capabilities of the victim of the attack, remains relevant throughout the entire military history of civilization. To counteract such an aggressor, a wide range of measu…
View full recordNew Era National Security and Governance Series Cognitive Security Issues in the Age of Intelligence: Basic content, analytical framework and risk management. [新时代国家安全与治理系列研究报告 智能时代的认知安全问题： 基本内涵、分析框架与风险治理]
Since 2020, a new generation of artificial intelligence technology has been widely used, and the world has accelerated its entry into the rapid flow of information. In the era of intelligent intelligence of individuals deeply interconnected and social panoram…
View full recordNew Perspectives on Cognitive Warfare
proceedings of spie - the international society for optical engineering
Cognitive warfare is not new. Weaker parties in an asymmetric conflict have manipulated information and ideas to convince stronger opponents to not fight (e.g., the Trojan Horse).1 What is new is the extent to which technologies enable cognitive warfare – res…
View full recordNews Verifiers Showdown: A Comparative Performance Evaluation of ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, Bing AI, and Bard in News Fact-Checking
proceedings - 2023 ieee future networks world forum future networks imagining the network of the future fnwf 2023
This study aimed to evaluate the proficiency of prominent Large Language Models (LLMs) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0, Google's Bard/LaMDA, and Microsoft's Bing AI - in discerning the truthfulness of news items using black box testing. A total of 100 fact-che…
View full recordNote sur la Guerre Cognitive
View full recordOn challenges of AI to cognitive security and safety
Recent advances in deep learning have led to disruptive breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), fueling the jump in ChatGPT-like large language models (LLMs). As with any emerging technology, it is a two-sided coin, bringing not only vast social impact…
View full recordPeace of Mind: Cognitive Warfare and the Governance of 21st Century Subversion
This policy brief explores the emergence of cognitive warfare – which aims at controlling what and how an adversary thinks – and the rise on the international stage of non-kinetic means of subversion enabled by emerging technologies. It proposes the establish…
View full recordReshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions
We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any reshares over a 3-month period. We find that removing reshared content sub…
View full recordRussia’s Nuclear Propaganda: From the Cold War to Ukraine
journal of slavic military studies
Through comparative historical analysis, we find that Russia’s strategic communications regarding nuclear weapons use in Ukraine broadly reflect Soviet strategy during the Cold War. The Soviet Union employed a combination of aggressive and defensive propagand…
View full recordSeeing Through the Fog: The Impact of Information Operations on War Crimes Investigations in Ukraine
international conference on cyber conflict cycon
As Russian forces closed in on Kyiv, a MiG-29 Fulcrum swooped in and took down six Russian jets. The next day, the same MiG shot down ten more. Stories of the hero fighter pilot spread like wildfire throughout Ukraine and across the internet, turning the 'Gho…
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