Basics
This country currently dominates the current information discourse
What is America?
In 2016, Russian disinformation targeted this country’s presidential election using trolls and bots.
What is the United States?
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” - This person gave this quote
Who is Sun Tzu
During Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, hybrid warfare included false claims that Kyiv was controlled by these extremists.
What are neo-Nazis?
This APT exploited a AI deepnude generator to distribute malware?
What is FIN7 or carbon spider?
This website is the worse perpetrator of fake news.
What is X/Twitter?
In Singapore, the government passed this law in 2019 to combat disinformation online.
What is POFMA
The EU’s East StratCom Task Force runs this database exposing Russian disinformation.
What is EUvsDisinfo?
Which 2015 conflict in the Middle East saw hybrid tactics mixing drone strikes with disinformation about responsibility?
What is Yemen (Saudi–Houthi conflict)?
This US based organisation holds a AI vulnerability research every year.
What is DERPA
This method exploits a current issue.
What is amplification?
This organisation launched the missile that hit the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Palestine.
What is Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)?
Estonia host this organisation that makes it a key part of NATO's Cyber.
What is NATO CCDCOE?
The deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or PR campaign as if it were unsolicited comments from ordinary people.
What is astroturfing?
This is the cost of a toy soldier.
What is $60 million.
This Soviet-developed theory of controlling an adversary’s perceptions laid the foundation for modern IW
What is Reflexive Control Theory?
This African country saw coordinated disinformation during its 2019 elections, fueled by WhatsApp forwards.
What is Nigeria?
India uses the term “information influence operations” mainly in the context of which region?
What is Kashmir?
AI-assisted disinformation is especially hard to counter because it overwhelms defenders with too much content, a problem known as ____.
What is the firehose of falsehood?
This critical procedure used in many financial institutions is currently struggling with deepfakes.
What is KYC, Know Your Customer
The ability to “see, understand, and act faster” in the information space is often described using this decision-making loop.
What is the OODA loop (Observe–Orient–Decide–Act)?
In 2017 Jharkhand, disinformation campaigns in India spread fake WhatsApp messages, sometimes leading to this type of violent outcome.
What are mob lynchings?
This ASEAN member is often studied as a “digital society,” but also faced election disinformation via WhatsApp in 2019.
What is Indonesia?
In hybrid warfare, disinformation campaigns aim not just to deceive but to create this, making people doubt all information.
What is the liar’s dividend / truth decay?
What southeast asian country just had all its citizen's financial data leaked yesterday?
Hint: (Its on sale for 175k on a clearnet forum that is currently being used by the same APT that just hacked Salesforce)
What is Vietnam?