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Our multiverse of disinformation

The rise of populism and populist leaders worldwide rely on a key human trait: it’s far more convenient to blame someone or something else for our misfortunes than to accept…

The disinformation network

The busting of India’s information warfare by EU DisinfoLab has caught much of the world unawares. The voluminous report on how the sophisticated ecosystem of disinformation has operated since 2005…

War Of Disinformation

War of disinformation

Using false flags is a primitive military tactic that can be virtually manoeuvred with the advent of digital warfare: thus turning fake news into 21st century propaganda – the age…

The unbreakable bond

Geopolitical smokescreen — separating fact from fear: In recent months, as Pakistan rightly diversifies its diplomatic outreach and navigates complex regional dynamics, a surge of speculative reporting has attempted to fundamentally…

At the threshold of a new world

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the process of reorganizing the world. The US and China are already in the midst of this reorganization process with the former far ahead of…

The new grammar of power

Statecraft has always evolved alongside technology. The compass enabled maritime empires, industrial machinery powered economic dominance and nuclear weapons reshaped global deterrence. In the twenty-first century, artificial intelligence (AI) is…

Where free speech ends

Pakistan and the UK’s relationship has traditionally enabled candid engagement on sensitive matters within a framework of trust and mutual respect. It is in this context that Pakistan’s recent diplomatic…

Pressing forward

I AM close to wrapping up an amazing semester teaching a news writing class to three Master’s students of journalism. They are some of the smartest women I’ve taught and…

Why transparency matters

Forty years and 4000 kilometres away, Nadya Pravyk gazed mesmerised at the ethereal, incandescent beam of light that shot up to the sky, ripping the heavens apart. And yet with…