ICIT Analysis: “Facebook Poses a Massive Risk to National Security: But It’s Worse than You Think…”
Dragnet surveillance capitalists turned dragnet surveillance propagandists remain under-controlled to the point that they knowingly operate on a spectrum from criminally negligent to negligently criminal. While it is essential that negligent data brokers face the consequences for their nefarious activities, it is also vital that the underlying disease that founded the environment of their growth .. read more
What is Facebook’s Relationship with China and How Has U.S. Data Been Exposed?
by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS) In addition to the questions that Facebook must answer concerning its relationship with Cambridge Analytica and the breach of privacy and security on its platform, legislators must also inquire about its relationship with China and how the .. read more
Information Warfare: The Meme is the Embryo of the Narrative Illusion
Abstract Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), but who does one become when the thought is hijacked? We are no longer a society ruled by geographic lines in the sand laid by men who won and lost wars 50 years ago. Rather, we are a society governed by ideological variation, led by chieftains .. read more
ICIT Introduces: Center for Cyber-Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS)
“This is an advisory that studies the weaponized digital applications used by foreign nation-states for influence operations” – James Scott, Sr. Fellow ICIT & CCIOS The weaponization of digital vectors for a more expedient and potent manner of message delivery has become a pandemic as nation-states use technological means to streamline distribution of fake news, .. read more
