How does a pathogen with little pandemic potential threaten international security and defence? What happens when adversaries create and reuse conspiracies against a traumatized public? Ji Young Kim explores the current hantavirus outbreak, illustrating how hostile actors weaponize institutional betrayal and post-COVID trauma to disrupt NATO logistics and outline the urgent next steps required.
Author: Ji Young Kim
Ji Young is an undergraduate pursuing the social sciences at the University of Toronto, intending to focus her studies in International Relations, Sociology, and Public Policy. Alongside her work with the NATO Association of Canada, she is also a researcher for the UofT HanVoice Chapter, where she analyzes systemic human rights issues and produces reputable content that strengthens Canadian engagement and overall public understanding of a system of absolute, centralized, and hereditary totalitarianism- North Korea. Ji Young is also curious about the implications and catastrophes on the political climate from the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), more specifically, how this second phase of the industrial revolution will shape the political identity of future generations and the legitimacy of war.
How AI-Generated Misinformation Creates Friendly-Fire Confusion Among NATO Allies
How can allied democracies inadvertently amplify each other’s friendly-fire of confusion and panic? What existential threat does this pose to content creators, journalists, or news anchors? Ji Young Kim examines how AI-generated misinformation shapes interpretation in the context of recent geopolitics and modern media culture.
Spamouflage in Canada: How Targeted Disinformation Undermines Democracy
Two years have passed since Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) Canada, which detects foreign interference and disinformation, identified the first Spamouflage campaign. First detected in 2023, the Spamouflage campaign refers to a covert disinformation operation that relies on networks of newly created or hijacked social media accounts, frequently seen to amplify narratives aligned with PRC (People’s Read More…



