Iran has suffered greatly from US bombing, but it has been outmanoeuvring the superpower in the information domain. Each of the two countries is using internet culture against the other during hostilities that began on …
US-Israeli airstrikes may dominate the footage from Tehran, but a decisive contest is also unfolding in code: a live demonstration of how modern coercion targets a state’s digital nervous system as deliberately as its physical …
The key destabilising feature of today’s information environment is no longer simply that democracies are targeted by adversaries’ misinformation and disinformation. Increasingly, the danger is coming from uninhibited partners in the allied ecosystem itself. The …
Last week X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, made an allegation of enormous consequence with remarkable casualness: China controls millions of spam accounts used to censor the platform during periods of political unrest. Responding publicly …
A rise in anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese public in the past month is not unprecedented, but rather an extension of a steady rise since 2023. The surge, which followed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remark …




