Propaganda

Lukasz Olejnik (LukaszOlejnik.com) is an independent cybersecurity and privacy researcher and consultant. He holds a Computer Science PhD (INRIA, France) and an LL.M. in Information Technology Law (University of Edinburgh). He worked at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), and was a research associate at University College London. He was associated with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, with Oxford's Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, with Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and was elected a Member of World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Technical Architecture Group. Former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, where he worked on the humanitarian consequences of cyberwarfare. He advised on science and new technologies at the European Data Protection Supervisor. He helps various companies and organisations, including with cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, and technology policy. Author of book “Philosophy of Cybersecurity”. His comments appeared in places such as Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais, or Le Monde. He authored scientific papers, reports, opinion articles in venues like Wired or Foreign Policy.

1. The concept of propaganda—the evolution of meaning, 2. Theoretical background: Information environments, and propaganda as modulation of information space, 3. Technological methods of digital propaganda and information operations, 4. Commercial propaganda and PR, 5. Norms, rules, international law—legality of propaganda and disinformation, 6. Political and state propaganda, 7. Propaganda and military affairs, war propaganda, and information warfare, 8. The end is near