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Information Warfare: Why America Needs a Deterrence Strategy

Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.

Gary Geipel

11 Feb 2025 · 6 min read

The red REDnote app on a phone with Chinese currency in the background.

REDnote and the TikTok Refugees

If they manage to stay on REDnote long enough, former TikTokers will surely begin to notice that all is not as it seems in modern China.

Aaron Sarin

28 Jan 2025 · 6 min read

How the Media Broke the Immigration Debate

What good is a free press if it lacks the courage to ask difficult questions about our most important problems?

Tomás Sidenfaden

21 Jan 2025 · 11 min read

From Skies to Screens

Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.

Robert Huddleston

20 Dec 2024 · 9 min read

Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse

A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources.

The Quillette Editorial Board

29 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

The Digital Mirror of Narcissus

Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part.

Timandra Harkness

23 May 2024 · 11 min read

Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill

Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.

Toadworrier

23 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online

Instagram being #HereForYou? Hahaha, please

Freya India

8 Feb 2024 · 7 min read

The Case Against Content Moderation

Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic.

Sam Kahn

2 Feb 2024 · 15 min read

Hamas Cheerleaders Are All Over Instagram

Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.

Christina Buttons

16 Nov 2023 · 11 min read

Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.