And people say that TikTok is nothing to be worried about.
Researchers in China’s military are studying how to use influence operations to sow no abroad and encourage a mentality of defeat in the United States, according to one expert.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), are engaged in “cyber-enabled influence operations” against the United States and looking to further expand their capability for disruption, according to Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
“There is a group of PLA researchers, often focused on [influence operations], who argue that the cognitive domain is the new focus of warfare,” Mr. Beauchamp-Mustafaga said in prepared testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Feb. 1.
Such “cognitive domain operations,” or CDO, are ultimately aimed at encouraging “a psychological or cognitive decision to surrender,” he added.
Thus, by leveraging technologically enhanced propaganda, like AI-generated deepfakes, the regime hopes “to win a conflict with as little kinetic destruction as possible and force the adversary to accept defeat short of total destruction.”
This is just one reason we were right in the Trump Administration to want to ban Tik-Tok.
Chinese Military Studying ‘Cognitive Attacks’ Against US Population | The Epoch Times https://t.co/2On8m2MvPV
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) February 4, 2024
