News Accuracy versus Political Bias: An Experiment

News is a vital nutrient of the body politic. Without accurate information, democratic societies cannot survive, let alone produce the “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” necessary for their survival.

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Does Propaganda Have Intelligence Value?

Any society will have its biases and seams between different segments. Authoritarian leaders in particular make extensive use of divisive rhetoric in order to promote internal conflict that renders a population more amenable to control.

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Russian Propaganda Campaigns Spread COVID Disinformation to Harm the United States

The COVID pandemic has become a favorite leverage point for Russian propaganda efforts against the United States. Russia’s strategic objectives require the United States to have a diminished role in world affairs.

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Cybersecurity for the Confused

Materials from a recent presentation I gave on cybersecurity and keeping yourself safe online.

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Strong Passwords are Easy

By Sheldon Greaves It’s been conventional wisdom for a long time that a strong password must be a complex affair. Consisting of longish strings in which capital letters turn up in unlikely places, along with numbers and special characters to … Continue reading

The Case for “Eastern Civ”

By Sheldon Greaves If you’ve been to college, you have probably taken a course called “Western Civilization” or “Western Civ” for short. It was probably a required course, which means you did all you could to get through it quickly … Continue reading

The Ideological Turing Test

By Sheldon Greaves The quote above is a less well-known ancillary to Sun Tzu’s more famous quote: “Know your enemy as you know yourself, and in one hundred battles you will not be in peril. This post is about intellectual … Continue reading