What Is Truth? The Rashomon Effect and Warfare in the Information Environment

The Information Environment and the evolving nature and character of warfare: Social media has created a new career field: influencer. If social media can influence people to buy products, could it also influence people in other ways? Could an adversary use social media to influence a population to create change? Is this not the goal of warfare? In a democracy, how do we develop a citizenry able to discern the truth? Join us as we examine information and warfare through the lens of the film Rashomon. The film Rashomon contains non-explicit references to sexual and physical violence. Sponsored by the War, Peace, and Justice Project and Cor Christi Institute, Inc.