#133 Joe Littell on Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this episode, US Army MAJ Joe Littell discusses his recent article:</span> <a href= "https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/aci_books/14"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">the Future of Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">–including emergent technologies, disinformation, and implications for democracy. Joe also presents some of the things we can do to protect ourselves.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Question</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: How did China use social media to control the COVID narrative within China? How was Chinese state media messaging oriented, both in frequency and content, prior to their invasion of COVID19 Lockdown Protests? </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Was Chinese messaging uniform, both in frequency and content, across languages and regions, or was it tailored by either? </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Did Chinese messaging change, either in frequency or content, in response to increased publicity from Western outlets?  </span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Resources</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-41"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">#41 Toomas Ilves on the Estonian Perspective</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a h