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Editorial graphic of Western democracy and digital censorship merging into a single narrative system.
Information Operations

The Disinformation Industry: Inside the New Epistemic Regime

By David x Davis

Strategic censorship, narrative laundering, and the rise of domestic disinformation frameworks

Information Operations

Weaponised Fact-Checking: The New Infrastructure of Censorship

Signal InterceptOriginally designed to counter misinformation, fact-checking has evolved into a core mechanism for narrative…

Information Operations

Propaganda Supply Chain: Commercial Players in the Info War

How corporate actors, platform logic, and narrative contractors turned propaganda into a scalable global industry

Information Operations

Format Over Facts: The Structural Edge of Modern Disinformation

A Forensic Analysis of Why Western Counter-Disinformation Efforts Fail to Match Structural Influence Warfare

Information Operations

The Architecture of Russian Disinformation

How Russia Engineers Systemic Influence Through Narrative Motifs, Repetition, and Contradiction Loops