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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I thought I was Putin.
That would make me Putin too.
Bradshaw said that while Russia and authoritarian regimes get most of the attention for manipulating social media, Western democracies have been using similar techniques. In the U.K., the British Army created the 77th Brigade in 2015, in part for psychological operations using social media. Bradshaw said democratic governments aren't forthcoming about their digital propaganda efforts.
"They are using the same tools and techniques as the authoritarian regimes," she said. "Maybe the motivations are different, but it's hard to tell without the transparency."
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Once again you demonstrate that you do not understand how journalism works. CNN trod the digital pavement, they have the privilege of asserting the claim. They are the ones making the allegation. They lay out the path they took. You can retrace it in an attempt to disprove their conclusions if you want, but you cannot reject the allegations without doing some work of your own.
originally posted by: Damiel
a reply to: interupt42
...read the *article before ejaculating irrelevant inaneties: it may help you stay on topic also
*Sorry that the article doesn't contain pictures !
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Because conservatives don't use nuspeak, only SJWs, BLMs, libtards....
originally posted by: DJW001
Am I the only one who noticed that this thread was immediately jumped upon by a half dozen members ridiculing the idea that the Russians are waging internet media warfare, and that these posts instantly received a lot of stars... even though it is only five o'clock in the morning in the United States?
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: DJW001
Am I the only one who noticed that this thread was immediately jumped upon by a half dozen members ridiculing the idea that the Russians are waging internet media warfare, and that these posts instantly received a lot of stars... even though it is only five o'clock in the morning in the United States?
Some of the most vocal American right-wing supporters on this site aren't even American.
Go figure.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I thought I was Putin.
That would make me Putin too.
Russian cyber operations, now well known for their role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, have also been used to exert influence to achieve policy objectives in Europe.
The 2007 DDoS attack on Estonia brought attention to large-scale attacks but network probing and small-scale hacks sometimes go unnoticed.
DNC-style hacks have targeted European political figures and institutions in Germany (2015), Lithuania (2016), Norway (2017), France (2017), and Montenegro (2017).
Nongovernment actors have also been targeted: in 2015 France’s TV5Monde was taken off the air, and in 2016 World Anti-Doping Agency data was stolen.
Crucially, critical infrastructure remains vulnerable, as evidenced by attacks on Ukraine’s power grid in 2015 and 2016.
This database represents a collection of all disinformation cases as they were reported by the East Stratcom Task Force’s network of contributors in the course of the Disinformation Review project.
Since the launch of the Disinformation Review in 2015, the database has grown into thousands of individual cases of disinformation, so you can use the search function below to get an overview of the content.
You can search for disinformation cases from a pre-defined period of time, in a particular language, from a particular source, or containing the keyword of your interest.