Security and Intelligence

On August 27th, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an unclassified summary of the results of its 90-day review of the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.  The DNI serves as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC), a coalition of 17 intelligence agencies and organizations. Key points of the summary are: SARS-CoV-2 probably...

“Disinformation vulnerability,” i.e., vulnerability to inaccurate, misleading or incomplete information is oftentimes a byproduct of asymmetric information.  Such inaccurate, misleading or incomplete information may be disseminated innocently or by design.  The “degree” of vulnerability is a function of:  the perceived or real expertise of the information provider; the importance to the recipient of the subject matter to which the information...