Truth Dies First: Storyweapons on the InfoOps Battlefield
By Renny Gleeson
| July 27, 2020
Storyweapons are adversarial narratives that use algorithms, automation, codespaces, and data to hijack decision-making, and the stories of who we are, what we believe and why it matters. They leverage vulnerabilities and weaknesses against people and populations; they subvert freewill to bend actions to self-sabotage. Storyweapons exploit attack vectors across our new mixed reality of code and cognition, and they move the frontlines into the minds and software connected to any strategic objective. Defending the US against storyweapons requires a reconsideration of battlefields, operational models, and threat actors.
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