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The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map

The most influential media network operating inside a dozen allied countries today has no masthead, no headquarters and no country of incorporation. It has roughly 50 million members across more than [...] More

The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment

The future of disinformation is no longer about creating better content. It is about teaching machines what to retrieve, summarize and recommend. In the AI era, the editor matters more than the [...] More

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The War Before the War Has Already Begun

There are 65 active state-based conflicts in the world today, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. That is not 65 separate crises. It is [...] More

Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage

Entrepreneurs realize that speed compresses learning. They know some of their initial assumptions will be wrong or only partially right, so going [...] More

Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead

One of the most consequential geopolitical and technological races underway is the competition to shape the future of large language models. For a [...] More

The New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

OPINION -- Technology has a way of helping us skip steps.China skipped mass adoption of credit cards and went straight to mobile payments. Nigeria [...] More

How Extremist Groups Are Sharing a Global Media Strategy

In the private sector, we analyze competitors to understand where they excel, so we can improve our approach. With this same mindset, I reviewed how [...] More

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future

Iran is the right place to start. Not because it is the most sophisticated adversary in disinformation—but because it is the most instructive. It has [...] More

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

Senior policymakers, military leaders, technologists and narrative strategists had one thing on their minds as they gathered in a Reston conference [...] More