China's disinformation and control efforts have a long, troubling history. During my research, I came across a fascinating 1957 paper by Albert D. Biderman...
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
An artificial intelligence firm announced that it will end its partnership with Chinese companies following the United States issuing security concerns.
Suspicions have been raised by Russian legislator, Irina Yarovaya, regarding the possible connection between U.S. bio-laboratories in Ukraine and mysterious, hard-to-treat infections reported in the Ukrainian military.
NATO is set to conduct its most extensive military exercises in Western Europe since the end of the Cold War, with the aim of bolstering its readiness against potential threats.
