The PLA National Defense University is developing brain control weapons that use browsing histories, shopping records, and social activity to identify susceptible individuals.
Posted by Bannon`s War Room, Checked
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Bannon`s War RoomAug 17, 2026
Independent sources support that the PLA has pursued 'brain-control weapon' concepts and that NDU-linked writing discusses them, but none of the provided independent sources says NDU is developing a system that uses browsing histories, shopping records and social activity to pick out susceptible individuals.
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What was said
… tech can then learn a person's political preferences, psychology, and behavior, analyze voting propensity, and use the response to refine the next message to better target them with propaganda. Direct quote: Classify voters by their degree of susceptibility. The PLA National Defense University is busy developing, their words, not mine, brain control weapons, where they're using and taking in browsing histories, shopping records, and social activity to reveal a target's values, political position, weaknesses, and needs, so they can, quote, select susceptible individuals with high influence value to shift their votes. And in another one, they're actually targeting Gen Z. …
Bannon`s War Room · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. NDU Press (2026-09-16) reports that PLA researchers explore brain-machine interfaces for command and control and quotes Gen. He Fuchu anticipating 'a new brain-control weaponry' that controls people's consciousness.[1]
Supports. FDD (2026-04-12) states that the PLA's National Defense University textbook and related work treat biology and brain control weapons as a new domain of military struggle, though it does not describe browsing or shopping data.[2]
Supports. RAND (2026-08-14) describes PLA writings imagining brain control operations and brain-computer technology that analyzes behavior, supporting the general concept of targeting individuals' psychology.[3]
Context. Natalie Winters' Substack and X thread (both 2026-08-17) describe a 2023 NDU-sourced article using the term 'brain-control weapon' and browsing histories and shopping records to select susceptible individuals; this is the claimant's own coverage and cannot independently corroborate the claim.[4][5]
Context. Extraction is faithful to the passage: the post attributes the 'brain control weapons' wording to the PLA publication ('their words, not mine'), and the claim's 'developing' and 'identify susceptible individuals' track the post's own wording. No source contradicts the claim.
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Minds at War: China's Pursuit of Military Advantage through ...ndupress.ndu.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2[PDF] Biotech Battlefield: Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomicsfdd.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3[PDF] Chinese Next-Generation Psychological Warfarefie.undef.edu.ar · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Chinese State Researchers Mapped How To Target ...nataliegwinters.substack.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5PLA and CCP-linked research maps a blueprint for ...x.com · not rated · cited for: context
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