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Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes

By Michael Yankoski, Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger | Disruptive Technologies

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jake A, aka Yellowstone Wolf (C), enter the US Capitol on Wednesday. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity

Herb Lin testifying in Congress.

Congressional testimony: How the Pentagon can fight information warfare

By | Disruptive Technologies

Trump takes off his mask.

Can Trump cure America’s vaccine hesitancy?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (Photo credit: US Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)

The Abraham Accords effect: more armed drones in the Middle East

By Ali Arfa | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Watch now—The Artificial Intelligence Era: What will the future look like?

By Halley Posner | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Patriot missiles.

Worried about the autonomous weapons of the future? Look at what’s already gone wrong

By Ingvild Bode, Tom Watts | Disruptive Technologies

A biologist releases genetically modified mosquitoes in February 2016 in Piracicaba, Brazil. Technicians from the Oxitec laboratory released genetically modified mosquitoes Aedes Egypti to combat Zika virus. (Photo by Victor Moriyama/Getty Images)

Paradise altered: EPA approves first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida Keys

By Taylor White | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

An intelligence forecast and the Doomsday Clock coincide. For better or worse.

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock

Perdix drone swarm test.

Meet the future weapon of mass destruction, the drone swarm

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies