  In Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the critical term is
paradigm-shift when it suddenly becomes evident that earlier assumptions no
longer are correct and the plurality of the scientific community that studies
this domain accepts the change. These types of events can be scientific
findings or as in social science system shock that creates a punctured
equilibrium that sets the stage in the developments. In information warfare,
recent years studies and government lines of efforts have been to engage fake
news, electoral interference, and fight extremist social media as the primary
combat theater in the information space, and the tools to influence a targeted
audience. The COVID-19 pandemic generates a rebuttal of these assumptions. Even
if fake news and extremist social media content may exploit fault lines in our
society and create a civil disturbance, tensions between federal and local
government, and massive protests, it is still effects that impact a part of the
population. What we have seen with COVID-19, as an indicator, is that what is
related to public health is far more powerful to swing public sentiment and
create reactions within the citizenry that are trigger impact at a larger
magnitude that has rippled through society in multiple directions.
