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Air Power Australia: Australia's Independent Strategic Think Tank; Editor-in-Chief, Webmaster and Website Designer; Head of Strategy and Capability Analysis

 Melbourne, Australia
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Joined July 2011
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An excellent media summary of the disinformation defeat white paper: defence-blog.com/researchers…

Researchers publish tool to rate disinformation defense

Researchers at Monash University have published a capacity maturity model for assessing how prepared a country is to defend itself against disinformation campaigns, backed by a 103-page white paper...

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A White Paper on disinformation defeat. Targeting professional and academic audiences: doi.org/10.26180/33221805
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Explainer for my CMM project on disinformation, published by Monash Lens: lens.monash.edu/why-defeatin…

Why defeating disinformation is harder than it looks

Disinformation has become one of the defining security challenges of the digital age. Unlike traditional cyber attacks, which target computers and networks, disinformation attacks target something...

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Explainer with Monash co-authors covering the Frontiers paper. Explains many of the challenges with counter-propaganda: livescience.com/human-behavi…

'When people gather in groups, bizarre behaviors often emerge': How the rise of online social...

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of online networks. Combatting it has become an "arms race" between truth and...

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Latest paper with Monash coauthors is online entitled "Ignorance of the crowd: dysfunctional thinking in social networks", dealing with cognitive dysfunctions and their malign exploitation, e.g. for propaganda: frontiersin.org/journals/com…

Frontiers | Ignorance of the crowd: dysfunctional thinking in social networks

Cognitive dysfunction, and the resulting social behaviours, contribute to major social problems, ranging from polarisation to the spread of conspiracy theori...

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What's real – and what's not? From #deepfakes to carefully crafted political narratives, deception is more sophisticated than ever. Our expert @APA_Editor breaks down the psychology, tech and tactics behind modern disinformation on #MonashLens.  lens.monash.edu/@technology/…
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Latest explainer published in Monash Lens. Primer on disinformation with plenty of links to papers. #MonashLens #disinformation #AIPropaganda lens.monash.edu/@carlo-kopp/…
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Latest paper is online this week (but paywalled) HAISA 2024 Conference paper entitled Defining Measures of Effect for Disinformation Attacks based on the Ball survivability model. Access at: link.springer.com/chapter/10…

Defining Measures of Effect for Disinformation Attacks

This study proposes three measures for assessing the survival of beliefs in a population subjected to a disinformation attack. The intent of these three measures was to simplify the task of assessing...

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I did a seminar last week on deception and disinformation @MonashUni mainly dealing with mathematical modelling methods: monash.edu/it/ssc/cybersecur…

Understanding the Science of Deception and Disinformation

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Background on pandemic fake news spread in 2018 briefing #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #outbreak #pandemics : users.monash.edu/%7Eckopp/Pr…
New article on the fake news pandemic: #Coronavirus #covid19outbreak #chloroquine #pandemic #cov #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #outbreak #pandemics lens.monash.edu/2020/03/26/1…

Fake news, and its fatal consequences – Monash Lens

The spread of misinformation has striking parallels with the biological pandemic – and it, too, has cost lives.

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Check out my latest article: Fake news, and its fatal consequences linkedin.com/pulse/fake-news… via @LinkedIn

Fake news, and its fatal consequences

I have just published an expert commentary in Monash Lens dealing with the problem of SARS CoV 2 pandemic fake news. https://lens.

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Previous Forbes #PS752 cites: forbes.com/sites/jeremybogai…
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Cited in Forbes on #PS752: forbes.com/sites/jeremybogai…
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Cited in SMH/Age on "fake news", final two paragraphs: smh.com.au/business/companie…

Online fact-checkers confront deluge of bushfire misinformation

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has urged Australians to maintain a "healthy scepticism" towards online content.

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UK Parliament DCMS Committee Inquiry on Disinformation and #FakeNews publishes our submission detailing findings from @PLOSONE paper @MonashInfotech @kbkorb #PLOSONEauthor. Putting scientific research into practice: data.parliament.uk/writtenev…
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Dr Michael Brand comments on new paper by Kopp, Korb and Mills - Information-theoretic models of deception: Modelling cooperation and diffusion in populations exposed to "fake news". @PLOSONE @APA_Editor @MonashInfotech #FakeNews doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
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Replying to @PLOSONE @MonashInfotech
Supporting materials, explainers, slides here @PLOSONE @MonashInfotech #FakeNews : users.monash.edu/~ckopp/fake…
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Modelling Fake News - the New PLOS ONE Paper on Information-Theoretic Models of Deception linkedin.com/pulse/modelling…
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