“Disinformation will become the next iteration of warfare…the government should identify vulnerable populations”
On July 9, 2020, Kaplan records a podcast on “The Next Iteration of Warfare.” She says:
— “A lot of the way that this is approached, at least from a defensive perspective, is a lot of the same lessons that we learned from counterterrorism and social media,” she explains. “Where are the ISIS guys in chat rooms trying to recruit people to fly to Raqqa [in Syria]?”
— “I'm not going to sit here and tell you guys in your audience the history of warfare, but when we think about the fact that governments have always had a monopoly on the mechanisms needed to conduct war and then, you know, obviously, we have had an emergence of terrorism and this feels like the next iteration of warfare in the sense that these tactics to cause chaos, these tactics to sow discord, they're, they're more diffuse….”
— “Nobody is better positioned I think than the United States government to fight disinformation with the wealth of resources and analytic capabilities and intel that the government is able to get about these disinformation campaigns.
Like Jankowicz and Otis, Kaplan urges regulation, saying, “The US Government has unmatched capacity to address disinformation, but needs to work towards legislation that will allow it to act in this space.”
One year earlier, Kaplan had founded the Alethea Group.
“I've always been fortunate to work in organizations where we've been mission-driven and part of a team, and we're all working to accomplish a goal together.”
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