Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia are top sources of online misinformation Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). The think tank's International Cyber Policy Centre report and corresponding website examined datasets in Twitter's …
That was an odd video given the Bbc ended up essentially being apologists. Apparently it's ok to wear nazi symbols if your President is Jewish. It's now not ok to use 'Z', because that does offend President Elensky and his Aov battalion.
Biggest issue though is figuring out why people think Twitter is a reliable source, and who gets to decide the truth. Something the Bbc is notoriously bad at determining. The UK is deciding it's next attempt at energy policy, which means the impartial Bbc is promoting 'renewables'. Last week, the UK's wind fleet ran at around 5% capacity, or 3% of demand. Germany had 4 days of virtually no wind, and being winter, little solar. Luckily Germany burns a lot of coal.
The Bbc's solution is of course that we should throw billions more at the 'renewables' lobby.
Pronounce it in the manner of one hand strangling. Or it's just my way of protesting a stylistic change based on how a name sounds rather than how it should be styled. So until the Bbc can get NATO or NASA's names right, I'll keep getting their branding wrong.
I'm also still convinced the new style came about because people got fed up fighting auto-correct, and didn't have permission to override their local spellchucker's dictionary.
Notice wording: " state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns,".
It's not an accident that billions of dollars in "private" money used in USA is blatantly omitted. Eventually all of it paid by taxpayers as every cent is deduced from taxes, so it's at least sponsored by state.
And the biggest of them all? Fox News / Murdoch empire. But not in Twitter so it doesn't matter?
Funny thing that them Aussies decided to forgot that, despite Murdoch basically running the news in there. All the news.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute is weird organization, it's funded mostly by governments and military, also overseas and not just Australia. Now you might ask yourself: Why would military fund an "independent" think tank?
Particularly relevant given current events, in which the press (not just US) and US intelligence agency were just proven to spread misinformation, together with the concerted effort of social media networks to censors of reports that suggested otherwise.
https://ijr.com/ny-times-confirms-emails-hunter-laptop-not-russian/
Then came the whopper: More than 50 former intelligence officials claimed in a letter that the emails had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” While they provided no evidence to support their claim, the letter read, “If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hunter-bidens-emails-are-genuine-the-new-york-times-admits-ccf76cjc2
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/hunter-bidens-emails-expose-the-big-tech-threat-to-democracy
There was also the small matter of Clinton and the DNC being fined by the US Electoral Commission for lying about opposition research and making up their own 'Russian' disinformation. Dutifully reported and amplified by large sections of the MSM.
It's all rather messy, especially given trust in MSM is at an all time low, and YT channels can get much higher ratings than CNN.
I think that's why there were fines, ie $800k spent on dirt got filed in the wrong category. Only a small fine, but converts a 'conspiracy theory' into something closer to the truth.
The laptops got more interesting because of the efforts to deny, obfuscation and de-platforming that went on around it. Especially from the MSM and 'fact checkers' who couldn't possibly know the truth. It still might contain disinformation, ie the laptops stolen and salted after one of Biden's parties.
Problems are the usual ones though, ie the damage comes from the cover-up, not the conspiracy, and the dangers of crying wolf.
Yet sometimes misinformation backfires. Thanks to Russia, "Z" is the new "卐" and it's irreparably associated with Russia. Might take a long time for the Russian people to learn that, given how many Russians still don't know they were Nazi allies from September 1939 with the co-invasion of Poland until June 1941 at Barbarossa.
The Belorussian President revealed a Russian invasion plan showing each battle group had a different invasion marking. So Z forces were the ones attacking via Crimea. Which made it a bit odd when the media showed images of destroyed 'Russian' vehicles with Z on them far from Crimea. Some also appeared to show Russia was using fireproof white paint, because heavily burned vehicles ended up with fresh looking white Zs.
But such are the dark arts. Because Ukraine & Russia are using mostly the same vehicles, it's easy to turn the loss of a Ukrainian T-72 or BTR into a victory with a can of white paint and some propaganda. Using Z on your own vehicles to ambush Russians is, however, a war crime.
.....the problem is that millions of people BELIEVE the misinformation without any attempt at verification. In fact, for these folk, any attempt at verification proves that you ARE THE ENEMY!!!
Some examples from the Republican bubble of lies in the USA:
(1) Obama is a muslim.
(2) The affordable Care Act continues to HARM the health care provisions of millions.
(3) (Saint) Ronald Reagan never raised taxes.
I could go on......
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