Dear Facebook: please tell us more about your Crisis Response Centre.
Dear Facebook, I’ve got some questions about your latest iteration of safety check, your new Crisis Response Centre (CRC). I …
Author: Nicole Matejic
Nicole is an internationally recognised and trusted authority on navigating national security, crisis and emergency management challenges in environments of converged threat and risk. A regular instructor and guest speaker for NATO, Nicole is highly regarded for her work in distilling how terrorist organisations use influence operations in violent extremism, radicalisation and influence vectors within information disorder. A Non-Resident Fellow at The Krulak Center at the United States Marine Corps University, Nicole also holds the appointment of Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in the School of National Security and Terrorism. Nicole is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, where she is researching the path to jihad. Her thesis ‘The Jihadi Nudge’ is a multidisciplinary body of work that investigates how terrorist organisations use behavioural economics models of choice architecture (or decision science) to influence individuals toward radicalisation and recruitment. An early adopter of using social media for OSINT in the law enforcement, intelligence and later military environments; Nicole's time serving with Australia’s Customs and Border Protection Service (now Australian Border Force) saw her work extensively in passenger air operations and intelligence fields. Nicole’s first book ‘Social Media Rules of Engagement’ was published by Wiley in 2015.
We Don’t Have A Fake News Problem, We Have A Reality Problem
First published with permission on Renegade Inc: If the marriage between technology and the democratisation of information was meant to …
Why Businesses Hold the Key to Stemming the Tide of Radicalization
Mathew Sweeny spoke to Nicole about radicalisation and the Info Ops HQ report into Australian Foreign Fighters in this piece …
PVE answers from the grave: what extremists hope to achieve in life, they fail through death
Core to Islamic extremists beliefs is that Allah approves of jihad; and should a warrior die as a result of …
Ready for a career in social media? Be a great allrounder!
When people ask me how I “got into social media” they’re always surprised to learn that my journey into the …
4 minutes in North Korea
During the Korean Summer of 2014, I boarded an early morning bus at Camp Kim USO in Yongsan, Seoul and …
Red Hands: Syria – the epitome of slacktivism
“That gun is loaded, but it’s not in my hand The fire burns, I’m not the one with the match …
Demystifying the PR Spin Cycle
The Advertising and PR fraternities have a long history of, at times, being highly creative with the truth. From clean …
Faking it for the News
Nicole writes on crisis communications and social media for the Firebrand Talent blog: In what will almost certainly shock to …
Your freedom was never ‘free’ – why Trump’s press ban is an attack on democracy.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. …