In an OpEd for “Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung”, Mateusz Łabuz describes memetic warfare, looking at new forms of conducting cognitive activities aimed at controlling the narrative, and consequently also influencing the perception of reality by recipients. Mateusz draws attention to the relatively low social awareness, which makes societies and democratic systems more sensitive to sophisticated manipulation. At the same time, he refers to examples of building social resilience based on grass-roots initiatives and implementing new communication strategies aimed at counteracting the activities of adversaries in the information space proactively.

Read the OpEd entitled „Memetic Warfare – sind wir bereit für dieses Schlachtfeld?” here.

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