A troubling statistic from a recent MIT study: on Twitter, lies are 70% more likely to be retweeted than facts. What’s more, a false story reaches 1,500 people six times quicker, on average, than a true story.

Information warfare (Listen, Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp fans) -  An attack on cognitive infrastructure, on people themselves, on society, and on systems of information and belief (Interesting Article)



American Enterprise Institute’s Phillip Lohaus -  “We tend to think of our cyberdefenses as physical barricades, barring access from would-be perpetrators, and of information campaigns as retrograde and ineffective. In other words, we continue to focus on the walls of the castle, while our enemies are devising methods to poison the air.”

There isn’t much out there for dealing with information warfare, and that gap is leaving democratic societies vulnerable.


https://www.justsecurity.org/59152/information-operations-cybersecurity-problem-strategic-paradigm-combat-disinformation/