Cognitive warfare: Red Cross warns of dangers (#11)
Update: 2025-05-27
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How new technologies and online platforms are reshaping the battlefield of the mind.
In this episode, Sandra Casalini talks to Mauro Vignati from the International Red Cross about cognitive warfare, with a focus on online and offline radicalisation, as well as the role of social media. Mauro explains that cognitive warfare involves new technologies from neuroscience, for example neurotechnologies that can read and influence brain waves. He warns of the danger of online radicalisation, which can reinforce extremist ideologies. Democracies are particularly vulnerable as their open, digital information environment is exploited. Mauro emphasises the need to protect societies without jeopardising democratic values. The episode ends with a warning about the further development of cognitive warfare in social media.
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