The Digital Bridge

Mind Fields: A History of Military PsyOps and the Coming AI ... by Joshua McDonald

Episode notes

Based on Chapter 4

Episode Description: From the jungles of Vietnam to the server farms of Silicon Valley, the cost of influence is collapsing. We listen to the haunting "Ghost Tape No. 10," a supernatural PsyOp used against the Viet Cong. Then, we fast-forward to the digital age, analyzing how ISIS used "Grand Theft Auto" aesthetics to gamify terror, and how Cambridge Analytica turned military-grade psychological targeting against civilian voters. This is the moment the "public square" died and the "feed" took over.

Keywords: cambridge analytica, isis, vietnam war, social media, psychological operations, big data, privacy, election interference, facebook, history

Keywords
cambridge analytica, isis, vietnam war, social media, psychological operations, big data, privacy, election interference, facebook, history