#ReflexiveControlTheory
Reflexive Control Theory is a Russian military and intelligence doctrine that involves manipulating an adversary’s perceptions and decision-making so they “freely” make choices that serve the manipulator’s goals.

#ReflexiveControlTheory #FightDisinformation
March 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The strongest move?

Never accept the frame without question.

Reflexive control thrives on unexamined assumptions.

#ReflexiveControlTheory #FightDisinformation #ThinkBeforeReacting
March 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Percepticide & Perspecticide: Naming the Crime Behind Disinformation

You can’t fight what you can’t name.

And what disinformation does to us goes far beyond lies.
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Understanding the nature of the algorithms underlying social media are rooted in principles of #ReflexiveControlTheory, that it is a system designed to nudge one towards emotional reactions rather than reasoned responses, and to entrench cognition in biases, grievance, existential crisis, and dogma.
November 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Consider this in regards to the #AttentionEconomy particularly as it relates to #propaganda and #disinformation in connection to #ReflexiveControlTheory and #AmygdalaHijacking, which is in essence, the primary objective of political propaganda.
Neuroscience JUST Did the IMPOSSIBLE
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December 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The nature of propaganda and disinformation and its underlying algorithms derived from #ReflexiveControlTheory is designed specifically to emotionally nudge people into these kinds of zero sum contentious exchanges. I refuse to participate, and I will call it out when I see it.
November 16, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Fundamental to why this is the case has a lot to do with #ReflexiveControlTheory, as it relates to #AmygdalaHacking, and how the science of stimulating the fight-or-flight response in our consumption of information directly influences our perception of issues and events.

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Social Media and Baudrillard’s Simulation and Simulacra
Social media is relatively new, and the way we interact with it and understand our identities within the context of it is an area that…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Over the past days, we’ve explored 30 additional disinformation tactics, beyond the first 24 we previously covered.

Why?

Because disinfo evolves — and so should our ability to spot and fight it.

Here’s what we covered. 🧵 #FightDisinformation
March 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A fundamental part of that curriculum should be education about #ReflexiveControlTheory which is in essence the science of #AmygdalaHacking
To understand it amounts to better media literacy.
December 29, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Generally, speaking, all good rules to live by. Especially in the face of #CognitiveWarfare via social media algorithms derived from principles of #ReflexiveControlTheory and #ActiveMeasures, #HumilityIsCritic #StoicismIsEssential
December 12, 2024 at 5:47 PM
If you aren’t familiar, research the terms #ReflexiveControlTheory and #AmygdalaHacking
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM