Fallopia japonica, better known as Japanese Knotweed, is a highly invasive plant that forms dense thickets, outcompeting native vegetation. Present day disinformation is a lot like Japanese Knotweed. It takes just one post (or plant) …
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Last week, the US Department of Justice unsealed a significant criminal complaint. Police officers from China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) were charged with creating ‘thousands of fake online personas on social media sites, including …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. The cyberworld is a place of falsehood and fights, but also of ideas and identity and …
Planet A At the G20 summit this week, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged that his country would be carbon neutral by 2050. This would see Japan—the world’s seventh largest emitter of greenhouse gases—join Europe …
A billboard firm cleverly lures clients with a simple slogan on an otherwise blank canvas—unsee this. Its genius rests on a human trait: we can’t unsee, unhear or unsmell anything. Our senses are primordial devices …