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Infiltrating Our Minds: The Future of Cognitive Warfare
The Epoch Times ^ | 19 Oct 2023 | John Mac Ghlionn

Posted on 10/19/2023 2:25:19 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

In the words of James Giordano, a biosecurity expert, “The brain is the battlefield of the future.” And, as he tells me, no other world government is as determined to control the mind as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If recent, credible reports are to be believed, Beijing has made it a primary mission to conquer the cognitive domain—not just at home, but across the world. Society is, after all, nothing but a collection of minds. To control the mind is, in many ways, to control the overarching narrative. According to the aforementioned Mr. Giordano, a professor of neurology and director of the neuroethics program at Georgetown University Medical Center, cognitive warfare has two primary dimensions. *snip* Take social media, for example, which is little more than a collection of symbols (emojis, etc.), content (videos, photos, etc.), constructs (framed problems, solutions, etc.), and "contexts of narrative" (subjective, objective, etc). Pro-China influence campaigns have already infiltrated social media platforms and various news websites, and Mr. Giordano expects this aggression to intensify in nature, especially with a presidential election only 12 months away.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; propaganda; tiktok; war
We don't see "influence campaign" stuff here on FR, do we? And not just from the Chinese...do we? Nah........
1 posted on 10/19/2023 2:25:19 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

a) Stay away from social media like the plague

b) Derive your own opinions from principles and logic, not from popular opinion

Then you’ll be mostly immune to this kind of thing.


2 posted on 10/19/2023 2:31:12 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Hell no, I won’t go.


3 posted on 10/19/2023 2:36:52 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Naah. Just all this Soros & Schwab-approved globalist-Marxist propaganda pushing for WW3 with Russia. Right, Chad ?


4 posted on 10/19/2023 2:37:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The Chinese need to eat General Tso’s Chicken.


5 posted on 10/19/2023 3:24:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

not j7st “social” media...ALL MEDIA


6 posted on 10/19/2023 3:42:08 PM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We don’t see “influence campaign” stuff here on FR, do we ?

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Or as I like to chide them as...

The narrative control cubicle

who perform for their masters like clapping seals for rewards of doughnuts

( they’re cheap , morally and ethically as well as financially /-), they gladly sell their own souls, family , and country for as little as a doughnut. )


7 posted on 10/19/2023 4:58:53 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If you can control the information you can control the thinking.
If you can control the thinking you can control the behavior.

Our news and media have been infiltrated by the CIA which has been operating influence campaigns (domestic propaganda and spying) for half a century - see Operation Mockingbird.

There is a war on for your mind.


8 posted on 10/19/2023 5:19:20 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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