How Modern Influence Operations Work, Part 1: The New Influence Stack

How Modern Influence Operations Work, Part 1: The New Influence Stack Authored by Charles Davis via The Epoch Times, On a Tuesday night in a dorm room, a student opens TikTok for a “five-minute break.” The first clip is a montage of rubble and sirens. The second is a professor-style explainer, neatly captioned, delivering a single moral conclusion. The third is a shaky phone video of a confrontation on another campus—shouts, police lights, a crowd surging like weather. The student doesn’t search for any of it. They don’t even follow the accounts....