Women - The Achilles Heel of ISIL and Khorasan
While many will marvel at the UAE's progressive outlook on women's rights; and how this photograph will be a beacon for women in the Arab League of Nations - there is a larger play here. And it's an exceptional masterstroke of IO/PSYOP.
Prisoners of the Information War
Can you remember the last time you clicked on a headline that factually represented the story it claimed to report? No spin?
Social media war: Kurdish supporters vie with Islamic State in bid to win recruits
Social media influences people's decision-making: it serves to normalise highly abnormal situations - such as what conflict zones are like, when trying to attract foreign fighters.
On The Project: ISIS using social media to radicalise children
On the 28 May 2013 edition of The Project I spoke with Waleed, Gretel, Gorgi and Peter about talking to children about ISIS how they use social media as a radicalisation tool.
The Crisis Economy
Nothing sells news like a scandal, but while security companies are busy protecting their clients’ people and assets, who is looking out for them?
On Air! ABC Radio: Countering propaganda with propaganda not the solution
I caught up with ABC Radio's 'The World Today' program to talk about how fighting propaganda with propaganda is a narrow sighted view to combating radicalisation.