Strawberry Terrorism: Why ISIS are interested in Australia’s Strawberry Crisis
With no primary saboteur yet in custody over the insertion of needles into fresh Australian strawberries, ISIS have published a …
Tag: Info Ops
We Don’t Have A Fake News Problem, We Have A Reality Problem
First published with permission on Renegade Inc: If the marriage between technology and the democratisation of information was meant to …
Believe it or not – Daesh’s Alrawi App is a game changer.
There is some contention on the interwebs about whether or not Daesh have in fact developed an Android app called Alrawi …
Why we don’t need a CVE “counter narrative”: this war is about actions, not words
In the race to ‘do something’ to counter Daesh propaganda, Governments in the West have forgotten that actions speak louder …
Prisoners of the Information War
Misinformation is now the global weapon of choice and YOU are the one being held hostage by the highest pay-per-click …
Holy Crap! I wrote a book!
Two years ago I decided I was going to write a book. It was May 2013. I’d just published a …
On Air! ABC Radio: Countering propaganda with propaganda not the solution
Speaking at Australian Security Research Centre’s Social Media & Extremism conference in Canberra, Australia on March 25 – I caught …
Diplomacy isn’t #Diplomacy
The words warfare and diplomacy are by definition diametrically opposed. One is meant to prevent, or at the very least, pre-empt …
INCOMING! 77TH BRIGADE’S SOCIAL MEDIA WARRIORS
I’ve been reading the news coverage generated by the Ministry of Defence’s announcement on the establishment of 77th Brigade with …
Socialveillance: Are you tuning in?
First published for ‘Surveillance Magazine.‘ Surveillance on Social Media, or socialveillance, isn’t often discussed as part of the information revolution that …