When you talk about disinformation, we don't have a strategy for counter-disinformation.
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Waging war on disinformation isn't easy, because not everyone agrees on what disinformation is.
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Go deeper: The latest Facebook disinformation campaign Go deeper: See the political disinformation Facebook just axed
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"Europe is drowning in disinformation," said Christoph Schott, campaign director at Avaaz, an anti-disinformation group.
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Allstate has since broken ties with several sites classified as disinformation by the Global Disinformation Index.
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While domestic disinformation multiplies, foreign disinformation appears to be less prominent — or may be more hidden.
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Talk about what that means, because a lot of this is disinformation, the idea of disinformation.
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Disinformation and phishing: although the Census Bureau has already been working to combat disinformation campaigns, disinformation operations are increasingly leveraging social media and multiple platforms to launch advanced social engineering attacks.
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Russia's pro-Trump disinformation campaign We now know that Russia's disinformation campaign was far more politically biased than previously acknowledged.
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EU versus Disinformation, a site that specializes in dissecting pro-Kremlin disinformation, reports that In The Now is Kremlin-owned.
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That Mr. Joko's government has chosen to respond to disinformation with disinformation signals a dangerous backsliding for democracy in Indonesia.
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The Global Disinformation Index is a nonprofit that assesses websites' risk of spreading disinformation and rates them based on transparency.
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Cybersecurity experts that specialize in disinformation say they have witnessed several coordinated disinformation campaigns aimed at influencing the 2020 campaign.
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But The Global Disinformation Index has previously estimated that 20,000 disinformation sites it analyzed pull in $235 million a year.
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To counter the believability of disinformation, we need to address racial grievances and the established precedence from which disinformation is derived.
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This type of elite disinformation, from politicians many voters trust, is one of the most insidious and damaging forms of disinformation.
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"We're not talking enough about disinformation and how we counter disinformation," Hurd said in a recent interview in his Capitol Hill office.
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Twitter, Facebook and Hong Kong disinformation Big Tech has a new and high-stakes battleground over disinformation: the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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She called on companies to work together and with government to address disinformation, and also to alert users when they're impacted by disinformation campaigns.
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Disinformation: The number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled, to 70, in the past two years, according to a new report.
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That volume focused on disinformation efforts, and included recommendations that social media platforms be more transparent with users if they are exposed to disinformation efforts.
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Russia hack 'bid to discredit' UK anti-disinformation campaign Britain's Institute for Statecraft is a government-funded body that is supposed to counter Russian disinformation.
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Precedent 2: Using the bully pulpit for disinformation Trump has also gone beyond his predecessors when it comes to using the bully pulpit to propagate disinformation.
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Tracing individual strands of disinformation is difficult, but in Sweden and elsewhere, experts have detected a characteristic pattern that they tie to Kremlin-generated disinformation campaigns.
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Disinformation: At least 70 countries have engaged in disinformation campaigns, according to a study from Oxford University that is the most comprehensive yet on the subject.
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And there are others coming into this field, including the Britain-based Global Disinformation Index, as advertisers recognize the dangers of buying space on disinformation sites.
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These things have not been verified, saying that the Russians have information on Trump, that they can blackmail him, putting out this disinformation, not even misinformation, disinformation.
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"We see this as a shift from disinformation content to disinformation tactics, which makes people believe the hateful voices are actually very popular," Schott told VICE News.
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Spread of disinformation: The number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled, to 70, in the past two years, according to a report released today.
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Fighting disinformation across our products Kristie Canegallo, Google's vice president of trust and safety, links to a new white paper [PDF] about the company's efforts to reduce disinformation.
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Whether Putin's agents were merely dabbling with Brexit disinformation as they geared up for a more major disinformation push focused on the US election remains to be seen.
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Bipartisan warnings about the disinformation threat of deepfakes are growing louder ahead of the 2020 election, with experts warning that deepfakes will be the next phase in disinformation campaigns.
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The agency also "anticipates the arrival of $40 million ... to counter propaganda and disinformation," and will be reviewing "proposals from civil society groups to fight Russian disinformation," she said.
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The national party has also held biweekly calls with campaigns to talk about cybersecurity and disinformation and run anti-disinformation war rooms during the Democratic debates, Thomas told me.
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Disinformation-as-a-service providers — rentable, private-sector contractors providing full-service disinformation for anybody who can pay for it — have claimed to operate in English-speaking countries before.
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Even though disinformation is a much-discussed topic these days, campaigns seem not to have a grasp on what a solid plan to deal with disinformation should look like.
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"We're not talking enough about disinformation and how we counter disinformation," Hurd said in a recent interview with The Hill's Morgan Chalfant and Ali Breland in his Capitol Hill office.
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" However, testifying to Congress, Simpson quoted Steele as saying that any intelligence, especially from Russia, is bound to carry intentional disinformation, but that Steele believes his dossier is "largely not disinformation.
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But on a platform of two billion users, disinformation campaigns are hard to detect, and Facebook remains a gathering ground for groups eager to spread disinformation to the widest audience possible.
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"This is about disinformation and the way to fight disinformation is to call it out, show what it is and give everyone full information as quickly as possible," Warren told reporters.
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" Earlier, the Turkish president called reports of clashes "disinformation.
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The Future of Privacy: Disinformation Sam Lessin says disinformation is the (bleak!) future: This is a strategy in general that we should all expect to see more and more in the world.
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Propaganda is proving exceptionally difficult to tackle because, while the companies can more easily delete content they find originates with a foreign disinformation campaign, the primary sources of disinformation nowadays is domestic.
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That suggests that culprits have moved beyond relying on Facebook advertising to increase the spread of disinformation, said Renee DiResta, director of research at New Knowledge, an organization that studies disinformation campaigns.
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Davey Alba, the tech team's new reporter on disinformation, wrote about how Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, told Congress that the company would share a huge amount of data related to disinformation.
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"As regards the use of disinformation, there has been a number of instances with forged telegrams and disinformation in Russian media that have been circulated and at times caused confusion," he said.
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Researchers have already observed extensive efforts to distribute disinformation through user-generated posts — known as "organic" content — rather than the ads or paid messages that were prominent in the 2016 disinformation campaigns.
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Background: Facebook has come under fire for its failure to prevent the spread of targeted disinformation during the 2016 U.S. election, as well as similar state-coordinated disinformation campaigns in other countries.
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The HLEG favors the term 'disinformation' — arguing (quite rightly) that the 'fake news' badge does not adequately capture "the complex problems of disinformation that also involves content which blends fabricated information with facts".
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And while Facebook has taken a hands-off approach to political campaigns that spread lies and disinformation in paid advertising, it has a specific policy that bans any disinformation about polling or voting.
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Russia's efforts to spread disinformation have been a point of focus in light of the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Moscow tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election using cyberattacks and disinformation.
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But the problem is, we live in a disinformation society.
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The proposals relating to disinformation are a little more worrisome.
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Not all, or even most, disinformation is imported from abroad.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren calls Facebook a "disinformation for profit" machine.
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In such a campaign, disinformation is the ammunition of choice.
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Donovan said it's not surprising that a politician repeated disinformation.
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But there's also a threat in the form of disinformation.
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Creating and sharing disinformation is punishable by prison in Indonesia.
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His department released the photo to counter "disinformation," he said.
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But perhaps disinformation is in the eye of the beholder.
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And Facebook notoriously obliged, permitting the widespread sharing of disinformation.
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They failed to identify disinformation and false news flooding Facebook.
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Facebook became a swirling morass of disinformation during the election.
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As a weapon of disinformation, they can be devilishly effective.
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The Kremlin responded with a barrage of disinformation blaming Ukraine.
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I mean, disinformation is a little bit outside our bailiwick.
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Viral disinformation doesn't spread in a vacuum; it adds additional
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For example, disinformation has spread on social networks about Myanmar.
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The disinformation, dishonesty and lack of access left me outraged.
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I mean, you have one around identity and misinformation, disinformation.
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Russian disinformation isn't the only deceptive political advertising on Facebook.
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I'm not talking about spin — I'm talking about actual disinformation.
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Zimbabwe's central intelligence organization has a history of spreading disinformation.
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Experts say these groups are a breeding ground for disinformation.
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Nor are you being primed for a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Disinformation campaigns on Facebook have continued ahead of November's midterms.
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Newly empowered House Democrats will focus on the disinformation threat.
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Russia's disinformation campaign had a corrosive effect on our democracy.
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Iran is also increasingly posing security risks through disinformation online.
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But what about deep fakes and the potential for disinformation?
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It might seem, then, that Russia's disinformation campaign wasn't illegal.
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But they should not allow disinformation to influence their choice.
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He now believes Mary was part of the disinformation campaign.
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By 1989, Exxon was already mired in another disinformation campaign.
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The company has taken action against malicious accounts spreading disinformation.
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A real historical record or a strange Soviet disinformation operation?
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Could you elaborate on this incisive tweet about political disinformation?
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Disinformation and propaganda disseminated online have poisoned the public sphere.
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In the bizarre world of conspiracies and disinformation, both things
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Republicans including President Donald Trump have increasingly used disinformation online.
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In June, Biden promised no bots, deep fakes or disinformation.
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The politicians are spreading disinformation and sowing panic in society.
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Nina Jankowicz is a disinformation expert at the Wilson Center.
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On Monday, YouTube laid out its policies for handling disinformation.
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Ms. Jankowicz is the disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Tillerson are both experts at disinformation.
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No more sleepwalking through disinformation about what technology can do.
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There's no telling how much disinformation content is being spread.
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The Koch network's disinformation campaign has already claimed one victory.
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The call to stop amplifying disinformation agents is probably intuitive.
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Disinformation experts say that charge lacks evidence, and is irresponsible.
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And U.S. foreign policy is complicated by disinformation. Wow. Huh.
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Basically, Reddit is quashing lies and disinformation on the site.
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The hacking and disinformation attack on Qatar is not unprecedented.
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Davey Alba, who covers disinformation, discussed the tech she's using.
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You're covering disinformation in politics ahead of the 2020 election.
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But disinformation campaigns exploit less obvious cognitive biases as well.
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On the other hand, disinformation is growing faster than ever.
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WikiLeaks seems to have a playbook for its disinformation campaigns.
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A political crisis revolving around disinformation is easy to imagine.
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Americans are also highly concerned about disinformation on social media.
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But they can be highly vulnerable to rumors and disinformation.
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U.S. officials have subsequently pointed to continued Russian disinformation efforts.
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Christopher Wylie The Obama campaign didn't rely on scaled disinformation.
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So it's no wonder that political disinformation spreads so quickly.
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Social platforms continue to struggle with disinformation and its consequences.
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No. Should FB pay them and intentionally amplify their disinformation?
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In fact, they already have -- through cyberwarfare and disinformation campaigns.
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Russia has easy access to Donbas for its disinformation campaigns.
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Russia created a playbook for spreading disinformation on social media.
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Meanwhile, Ukrainians continue to get bombarded by propaganda and disinformation.
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Warnings about new disinformation tactics The committee warned that disinformation campaigns have begun moving to messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat, which are more difficult to monitor than platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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The warnings about disinformation campaigns come after the U.S. intelligence community overwhelmingly concluded that Russia not only hacked Democrats, but they also carried out a sophisticated and widespread disinformation campaign during the 2016 election.
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Internet firms should aggressively work to limit disinformation on their platforms by developing algorithms — perhaps driven by A.I., as suggested by Mr. Zuckerberg — that can detect disinformation and flag it for fast human review.
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Facebook's ex-security chief on disinformation campaigns: 'The sexiest explanation is usually not true' Alex Stamos talks to Victoria Kwan about the disinformation landscape: STAMOS: At some point, you start to realise it's mostly scammers.
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"I have seen intelligent disinformation researchers on social media, people that I respect, point at a conversation online and suggest that foreign disinformation was responsible for it, and they were just flat wrong," he said.
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Initially, I honestly didn't know if she meant that the false news we're seeing out there is the disinformation, or if she was referring to us as news producers putting out what she calls disinformation.
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Though they remain under complete control of the government in power and the ruling party and wouldn't tackle political disinformation, they could make a beginning with apparently apolitical disinformation such as rumors of child kidnappings.
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Russia's disinformation efforts targeting the US were discussed, but so too were threats from Iran and Chinese disinformation efforts targeting protesters in Hong Kong, a person familiar with direct knowledge of the meeting told CNN.
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Social media giants have long come under pressure to halt the flow of disinformation on their sites, where policies have been weakly enforced, and algorithms can propel fake news and disinformation to millions of readers.
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On this election day, it's Americans peddling disinformation and hate speech.
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"It's a master class in disinformation warfare," Bannon said (The Hill).
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Some of the Facebook pages pushing Russian disinformation were not sophisticated.
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But that was an easy, and relatively crude, case of disinformation.
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Some governments have set up disinformation units to counter Russian propaganda.
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" In Wallace's paradigm, "curiosity" is the "antidote to misinformation and disinformation.
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A Myanmar-related post run by several accounts aimed at disinformation
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But disinformation in the media system is not a new phenomenon.
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How do we keep social networks from being overwhelmed by disinformation?
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The effects of that disinformation went beyond Likes, comments, and shares.
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Yes, they can be used for wasting time and spreading disinformation.
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There's still plenty of disinformation to be found online, of course.
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It has disrupted democratic systems and facilitated a global disinformation crisis.
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Hence political ads are just the tip of the disinformation iceberg.
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YouTube is dealing another blow to conspiracy theorists and disinformation peddlers.
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The de facto outcome is to amplify outrage, and hence disinformation.
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So this approach could never entirely stop disinformation in its tracks.
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DG: ... to the particular problem of disinformation and privacy, more broadly.
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Russia ran a disinformation campaign that was intentionally hard to track.
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As disinformation tactics spread, such ethical questions get even more complicated.
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Well-funded foreign disinformation campaigns seek to sway American public opinion.
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Moore also blamed disinformation campaigns for his loss to the Democrat.
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The Committee recently held a hearing focused on Russia's disinformation efforts.
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"Governments are real offenders when it comes to disinformation," Kaye said.
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On certain days, Russia's disinformation efforts appeared to have exceptional reach.
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What do you know about bots spreading disinformation on social media?
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Belfer also trained local officials on handling social media disinformation efforts.
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Times Insider A lifetime of browsing offers lessons in spotting disinformation.
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The approach of disinformation is basic, but "it works," he said.
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We need a similar response to tackle disinformation and fake news.
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Hedge is, for all intents and purposes, a Russian disinformation operation.
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"It's bad for society if they're funding this hate and disinformation."
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Facebook has been plagued with disinformation posts placed by foreign operatives.
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Decades of disinformation and public manipulation have been compressed into weeks.
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Facebook and the Brazilian government have scrambled to counter the disinformation.
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The census has become another disinformation test for social media companies.
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The vote was preceded by Russian disinformation against the name change.
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The Chinese government has been linked to disinformation campaigns in Taiwan.
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Second, outlets should change the way they approach reporting on disinformation.
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Congressmembers are calling for Google to take action against climate disinformation.
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The team will be especially focused on disinformation operations, she said.
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Should we just accept disinformation as part of our digital fate?
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We have a disinformation campaign designed to discredit the president-elect.
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However, the influence of disinformation campaigns extends well beyond partisan politics.
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Unlike the typical Twitter bot, it fights disinformation with actual facts.
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What Does It Mean its information, or, more precisely, its disinformation.
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Mr. Nimmo's path to disinformation research was not an obvious one.
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In dealing with election-related disinformation, YouTube faces a formidable task.
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Banning deepfakes should be an incredibly low floor in combating disinformation.
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And Iran has disinformation networks it has activated in the past.
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Coronavirus disinformation has spread online since news of the virus broke.
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What tech tools do you use to discern or trace disinformation?
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What makes it hard for a campaign to deal with disinformation?
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How does The Times fact-check in an age of disinformation?
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Algorithms are sending ads by American brands onto Russian disinformation sites.
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Officials have also turned the disinformation battle over to the public.
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In 2016, Facebook didn't take an integrated approach to combating disinformation.
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The conservative media pumps out disinformation and propaganda as legitimate news.
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Solving misinformation and disinformation isn't as simple as following a checklist.
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One is concern about nation-state disinformation campaigns, principally Russian campaigns.
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The term describes the spread of disinformation by Russian troll farms.
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Neither did the Communist movement limit its disinformation to Russian matters.
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Democrats have said Johnson's investigation could aid disinformation efforts by Russia.
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Yeah, disinformation is, really, they're preying on your confirmation bias, right?
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As with all effective disinformation, their power lay in their plausibility.
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The purpose of the experiment was nominally to show how easily online disinformation campaigns can be set up, Critics lambasted the experiment, in which Jigsaw paid for a Russian troll army to orchestrate a disinformation campaign.
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At least $235 million in revenue is generated annually from ads running on extremist and disinformation websites, according to a new study from the Global Disinformation Index provided exclusively to CNN ahead of its September release.
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Axios has discussed some of the implications of these commercial disinformation services in the past — namely, that no American law would prevent a political campaign from contracting one to run a disinformation campaign on its behalf.
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When I talked to dozens of campaign staffers, members of both political parties, and disinformation researchers for my piece, the resounding consensus was that almost no campaigns, including 2020 presidential campaigns, have proactive counter-disinformation teams.
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" The op-ed touched on disinformation efforts by foreign actors, with the officials noting that these foreign adversaries are "continuing to spread disinformation to discredit politicians and views that are counter to their interests and ambitions.
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But Farid pointed out with the current disinformation landscape and the active foreign disinformation campaigns targeting the US, coupled with a polarized electorate, it doesn't take a wild stretch of the imagination to picture deepfakes being used.
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The same CISA official told reporters earlier on Tuesday that there was "constant" and "low level" disinformation activity seen on social media but that the agency had not observed a spike in disinformation associated with Election Day.
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Driving the news: "At least $235 million in revenue is generated annually from ads running on extremist and disinformation websites," according to a new Global Disinformation Index study reported by CNN that will be released in September.
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Will Hurd (R-Texas) argued during a panel discussion on disinformation that the department's budget cannot be cut because U.S. diplomats need to be engaging with their partners abroad to counter disinformation, particularly that spread by Russia.
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Since the election, Facebook has been reviewing its role in spreading disinformation.
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"Where the rubber hits the road is misinformation and disinformation," he said.
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A YouTube spokesperson pointed to a whitepaper Google published on tackling disinformation.
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This will be tasked with combating disinformation by state actors and others.
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Schiff will take appropriate steps to report this effort to spread disinformation.
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You might think vigilance is at an all-time high for disinformation.
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The internet provides a never-ending stream of information, disinformation and rumour.
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With Social Media Disinformation, What — and Who — Should We Be Afraid Of?
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For one thing, there's a tremendous amount of disinformation online — as Our.
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That means we need to figure out who those disinformation agents are.
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Lastly, exposing Russian plots could make Western populations more resilient to disinformation.
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She researches media manipulation, disinformation, and adversarial media movements that target journalists.
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Critics of Hunter Biden have sought other areas ripe for sowing disinformation.
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WhatsApp Users Spread Antivaccine Rumors in India Same platform, different disinformation campaign.
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Networks in Iran have been spreading disinformation to the US and Britain.
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These bills are our best chance at limiting the spread of disinformation.
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The blizzard of disinformation will cause some people to tune out altogether.
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Disinformation, especially around elections, is a new focus for Mr. Huntley's team.
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He saw data being scraped and sold and he saw disinformation campaigns.
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Ben Nimmo is a UK-based analyst of disinformation and information warfare.
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Jigsaw chose a cheaper option, a 2-week disinformation campaign for $250.
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But these disinformation tactics are just the beginning of global vote meddling.
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To YouTube, where Russian-backed disinformation agents promoted hundreds of divisive videos….
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THERE IS NOTHING new about either fake news or Russian disinformation campaigns.
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It was a classic piece of Russian disinformation — comprimat, they call it.
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Some European countries are trying to strengthen themselves against web-borne disinformation.
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In a culture of disinformation, power must redirect attention from the truth.
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The UK parliament's DCMS committee is running an enquiry into disinformation online.
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"Cyber was the tool to use in the disinformation war," he says.
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Since these platforms aren't going to provide any early warning disinformation alerts.
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The United States is not the first country subject to Russian disinformation.
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Lawmakers have acknowledged the challenge posed by Russia's cyber-enabled disinformation operations.
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"With days to go until EU elections, Europe is drowning in disinformation."
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Disinformation, as we see it, is about the intention of the distributor.
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Before November 2016, most people weren't thinking about disinformation on social media.
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The outlet has been accused of spreading disinformation in Sweden, the Czech
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In the wrong hands, however, it has been used to circulate disinformation.
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There has been much disinformation by partisan Democrats and their media accomplices.
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The latest revelations show that disinformation campaigns are not limited to Moscow.
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Disinformation is still rife on the platform and is continuing to grow.
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Technology companies and DC policymakers are lost in the fog of disinformation.
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Here's a look at the state department's fumbled fight against Russian disinformation.
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White also said Russia has begun a disinformation campaign on the situation.
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There's also a Disinformation Review Facebook page and that has 35,000 followers.
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Some fight disinformation with facts and others are meant to distract trolls.
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If you spot a piece of political disinformation online, let us know.
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A lot of spotting disinformation is hanging out in the right places.
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Or they might turn to Russian disinformation, which exploits this trust gap.
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The bureau is already fighting disinformation that could stop people from cooperating.
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In 1986 he opened the university's Program for the Study of Disinformation.
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We can avoid posting bogus material so as not to spread disinformation.
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Russia's government has so far denied being involved in any disinformation campaigns.
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Aggressively push back against rumor and disinformation with frequent, fact-based communication.
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Its capability raised concerns that people could manipulate videos to spread disinformation.
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They finally found the technology that most matches their methods of disinformation.
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China appears willing to finally start to flex its muscles on disinformation.
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Rob Goldman, Facebook vice president for ads, tweeted about Russia's disinformation effort.
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Reflexive control is a "uniquely Russian" technique of psychological manipulation through disinformation.
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The media manipulation and disinformation have even extended to the coronavirus outbreak.
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It was months of pressure that made Facebook take disinformation issues seriously.
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Experts, however, are skeptical that disinformation can be stemmed before the election.
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And there are warnings that the disinformation problem is likely to spread.
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Democrats have warned that Johnson's investigation could aid disinformation efforts by Russia.
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As President Donald Trump contines to share disinformation on coronavirus, Republican Sen.
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It even has regulations in place that prohibit the broadcasting of disinformation.
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But the trolls now had a shared objective: disseminate disinformation about Cruz.
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Warren's beefiest proposals for dealing with disinformation, then, are essentially just requests.
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Democrats regularly blast tech companies for not doing enough to fight disinformation.
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"Disinformation on social media is our No. 1 problem," Mr. Hall said.
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Not surprisingly, the virus has also been the subject of online disinformation.
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The documents turned out to be linked to a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Russian disinformation campaigns, opens a rare window into how and why someone
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But disinformation was the heart and soul of it for the KGB.
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Disinformation is a highly organized attempt to deceive us into believing it.
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It was spreading disinformation via 50 Instagram accounts and one Facebook account.
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Researchers say social media platforms should increase collaboration to monitor disinformation campaigns.
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Russian hackers are sowing discord through disinformation and working to undermine elections.
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Parody videos aside, is there any hope for combating more serious disinformation?
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The government has responded with both force and a virulent disinformation campaign.
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And the Labour Party is far from innocent in the disinformation war.
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Those include disinformation campaigns over social media networks and state-run media.
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We know that disinformation is not declining, and certainly isn't going away.
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It is still remarkable to see the disinformation coming from conservative media.
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Democrats have warned that the investigation could aid disinformation efforts by Russia.
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One of the channels in there is related to disinformation and misinformation.
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"This is yet another example of Russian disinformation intended to confuse audiences and discredit an organisation which is working independently to tackle the threat of disinformation," an Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed News.
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Congress needs to establish a legal framework within which the metadata of disinformation actors can be shared in real-time between social media platforms, and removed disinformation content can be shared with academic researchers under reasonable privacy protections.
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Most worryingly, the dissemination of disinformation is speeding up: Avaaz estimates that in the last three months there were 203 million views of disinformation, which is more than 218 times as many as during the preceding 24227403 months.
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To that end, the extent of the Kremlin's disinformation efforts — and its leap from the depths of social media to the webpages of the country's most well-read publications — raised alarms with top Democrats investigating Russia's disinformation campaign.
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"Facebook's tactics are extremely ineffective in stopping these networks of hundreds of Facebook pages and accounts from spreading disinformation," said Natalie Martinez, a fellow at Media Matters, a nonprofit in Washington that monitors disinformation from conservative American sites.
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The experts lay out a wide set of recommendations that can be broadly applied to future disinformation campaigns, noting that the problem is "broader than Russia" because other foreign entities are already looking to deploy digital disinformation tools.
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The European Union's External Action Service, which researches and combats disinformation online, said in an internal report that since January 22 it had recorded nearly 80 cases of disinformation about the Covid-19 outbreak linked to pro-Kremlin media.
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This, Mr. Decker says, is often the central goal of a disinformation campaign, completing a "feedback loop" through major news outlets, which can often lead to searches on Google for the topic and feed more interest in the disinformation.
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CARTER: Well, it&aposs profound because they want to continue this disinformation campaign.
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"When you want to beat disinformation, blocking is never an option," he said.
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This is perhaps best captured in how the companies approach dealing with disinformation.
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Last year, a Russian hacking and disinformation campaign targeted the US presidential election.
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Facebook has been in an ongoing fight to remove disinformation from its platform.
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So what can corporations do to protect their brands and valuations from disinformation?
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He will float conspiracy theories and spread disinformation to raise doubts about them.
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An Iranian disinformation operation impersonated media outlets, targeted journalists, and created fake identities.
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The same is happening with anti-vaccination disinformation across Facebook, YouTube, and others.
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Organized disinformation campaigns are as prevalent in Israel as anywhere in the world.
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The two most prominent disinformation campaigns identified were false claims about Planned Parenthood.
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"In the Netherlands Russia is being blamed for disseminating disinformation," the statement read.
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New Hampshire's Democrats have already passed at least one disinformation warm-up test.
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Shulman says that misinformation, rather than disinformation, poses the bigger threat next week.
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But many experts believe that domestic disinformation is now the more urgent concern.
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Facebook announced a slew of policy changes this week surrounding elections and disinformation.
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However, much of the intent to spread disinformation was attributed to American accounts.
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A post from Russian actors aimed at Ukraine in a campaign of disinformation
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Even more than false information, disinformation campaigns happen largely outside of Facebook's control.
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You don't just fire up your disinformation guns ahead of a particular election.
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Is it a broader problem about how social networks spread disinformation and extremism?
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On top of that, disinformation meant to discourage voting is rampant this election.
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Its origins are in rumor campaigns, fake news, disinformation all around the world.
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Once you start doing negative propaganda, I think it quickly turns into disinformation.
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They did not engage in a disinformation campaign disseminating lies about Hillary Clinton.
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Contrary to the pop, parades, propaganda and disinformation seen during the CCP's Oct.
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Despite growing fears about national disinformation campaigns, the news startled some officials there.
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Far-right political groups across Europe emulate Russia's disinformation tactics and its themes.
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The escalating disinformation campaigns bear striking resemblances to Russian campaigns, according to analysts.
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New Knowledge, one of the firms hired by the committee, tracks online disinformation.
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That report was prepared by New Knowledge, a firm that tracks disinformation online.
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Moving forward, disinformation operators will act with ever greater speed, scale, and sophistication.
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Which means Russia's 2020 disinformation campaign is most likely in the works, too.
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So the Kremlin can be expected to continue escalating its disinformation and propaganda.
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The centerpiece of the industry's efforts is a campaign of obfuscation and disinformation.
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First, the Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine.
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Unfortunately, opponents of reform have launched a media disinformation campaign to stop it.
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And indeed to target masses of political disinformation to carry out election interference.
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RT and Sputnik are bellwethers for the progressing American policy response to disinformation.
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And they're combatting coronavirus-related election disinformation aimed at sowing panic and confusion.
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Social media disinformation campaigns were the specialty of Russian-linked operatives in 2016.
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In xenophobic remarks full of factual errors and disinformation on Wednesday, Republican Sen.
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The best medicine against online disinformation is an informed society that's thinking critically.
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This could limit the spread of disinformation or insensitive jokes about the virus.
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At the same time, the campaign disagreed that the tweets amounted to disinformation.
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It resembled those old State Department reports chronicling Soviet active measures and disinformation.
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The hysteria about Russian disinformation serves two purposes, one purposeful, one perhaps not.
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"Patient Zero": Facebook Tried A New Approach To Counter Disinformation In The Philippines.
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But deepfakes are not an efficient form of a long-term disinformation campaign.
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That means the disinformation problem won't be solved through technology or policy alone.
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The good news is that platforms are getting better at identifying disinformation campaigns.
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China is officially very mad that Facebook and Twitter banned its disinformation accounts.
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Brazilian authorities began warning about the threat posed by online disinformation months ago.
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The spread of disinformation has been helped by the basic design of WhatsApp.
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CISA also warned of disinformation campaigns, as well as kinetic attacks — including bombings.
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But Trump's weaponized disinformation is corrosive to democracy no matter whom it targets.
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Trump said he had been informed about "disinformation" by "Democrats" a week ago.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter have created teams that look for and remove disinformation.
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Russia has denied the allegations of being behind the alleged coronavirus disinformation campaign.
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That arguably makes this kind of disinformation more effective in the long term.
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It's time to recognize disinformation as a prominent threat in the digital age.
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"It really looks, in many ways, like classic disinformation," Graham told NBC News.
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Welcome to the Nigerian election season, where disinformation and propaganda are nothing new.
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FireEye's project also showed AI language software could help clean up disinformation campaigns.
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And domestic disinformation efforts in the United States are also on the rise.
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Moscow denied being involved in any disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting allied troops.
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It was a widespread disinformation campaign that largely played out on social media.
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Like other social media platforms, TikTok also must tackle the spread of disinformation.
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For now, Facebook appears willing to risk disinformation in support of unfettered speech.
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The coronavirus panic has provided an opportunity for a pile-on of disinformation.
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He also has a demonstrated tendency to spread disinformation in times of crisis.
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Volunteers on Reddit found an Iranian disinformation campaign on the site in 2018.
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That we live in a world that seems to be awash in disinformation?
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Harris argued that the platform's design itself incentivizes the rapid spread of disinformation.
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The committee has sought input from experts in social media and online disinformation.
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The Russian president is clearly delighted by the success of his disinformation crusade.
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Instead, he knows how to use power asymmetrically, with cyber tools and disinformation.
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Perhaps it was the spread of disinformation that got everyone all riled up.
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The creation of disinformation or manipulated media is the most common communication strategy.
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The 2016 election marked a turning point for disinformation aimed at black Americans.
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The report describes China as "a major player in the global disinformation order".
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Morgan's company tracks online disinformation, and he has studied online radicalization for years.
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The number of countries waging disinformation campaigns has more than doubled since 2017.
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For example, quarantining problematic content doesn't address problems related to misinformation and disinformation.
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The DNC has painted Guccifer 2.0's claims as a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Studies have shown that the boomer generation is more susceptible to online disinformation.
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Communities are being ripped apart as prejudice, hate and disinformation are peddled online.
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Why was Secretary of State Pompeo in possession of this packet of disinformation?
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Many dismissed them as forgeries or the product of a Soviet disinformation campaign.
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Moscow may also seek to spread disinformation, launch cyberattacks and manipulate data. Sen.
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Silicon Valley has faced fierce criticism over disinformation, privacy breaches and political bias.
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This is actually a great analogy to disinformation and how it's targeted, right?
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The disinformation is coming, the disinformation is coming For those who want to believe propaganda because it fits a certain worldview they have formed, it doesn't matter much if the content comes from Russia, a conspiracy blogger, or anyone else.
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When his 43 years of spying, forgeries and fake news ended with his defection, Mr. Martin-Bittman began to write books about espionage and disinformation, among them "The Deception Game" (1972) and "The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider's View" (1985).
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Returning to the report, the researchers say China has entered the global disinformation fray in a big way — using social media platforms to target international audiences with disinformation, something the country has long directed at its domestic population of course.
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Intelligence agencies had assessed that the Russian troll farms that create and spread disinformation in the United States and Europe were likely to step up their disinformation activity on the day of the vote and while votes were being counted.
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The wider question for all these user generated content platforms is how their stated preference for free speech (and hands off moderation) can co-exist with weaponized disinformation campaigns conducted by hostile foreign entities with apparently unfettered access to their platforms — especially given the disinformation does not appear limited to adverts, with content itself also being implicated (including, apparently, people being paid to create and post political disinformation).
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There should be little doubt that the Russian disinformation campaign affected the presidential election.
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Pokes and likes have been replaced by Twitter wars, deepfakes, and mass disinformation campaigns.
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Facebook expected a fresh onslaught of disinformation from the Kremlin ahead of the midterms.
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There is clear evidence of them colluding to spread disinformation and smear the president.
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This guide is gleaned from the front lines of the social media disinformation wars.
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Kremlin-backed political disinformation scams are really just the tip of the iceberg here.
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The Democratic National Committee said the operation was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Mueller, however, did not establish coordination between Trump's associates and the Russian disinformation campaign.
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Mr. Zuckerberg had turned his company into a "disinformation-for-profit machine," she said.
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The tool tracks disinformation campaigns and tries to pin down their point of origin.
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So far, there's no public proof of deepfake clips being used for political disinformation.
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The wider problem with malicious disinformation is it pervades all content on these platforms.
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This is why our efforts to fight disinformation are focused on reducing its spread.
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Both sides have also accused each other of spreading disinformation to further their cause.
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For years Facebook was a rat's nest of trash content and systematically organized disinformation.
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And things are pretty bad, in terms of the media, veracity, lies, and disinformation.
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"Disinformation is probably the biggest challenge we've got on the internet today," he said.
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And more importantly, the scale of the disinformation and misinformation, people tend to underestimate.
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Twitter's relationship with US lawmakers investigating Russian disinformation has at times seemed similarly strained.
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I don't think you're ever going to stop disinformation from flowing on the internet.
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Are there potential government interventions you see as helpful in reducing thwarting disinformation campaigns?
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Others, like Israel-based VineSight, are tailoring their dragnets to pick up political disinformation.
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The problem of disinformation is growing much faster than our ability to combat it.
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Russia's disinformation campaign reached as many as 146 million people across Facebook and Instagram.
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But as Avaaz's investigation shows there's plenty of political disinformation flying by entirely unchecked.
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The U.S. blocked networks in order to prevent potential disinformation campaigns and election interference.
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A former foreign British spy who was basically peddling Russian disinformation into the FBI.
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Every day, it seems there is a fresh hell to deal with online. Disinformation.
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Old-fashioned tenets of the news business fade away in this fog of disinformation.
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Appearing on Fox, I became part of the disinformation machine rather than hobbling it.
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And that means that we need to figure out who those disinformation agents are.
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Such ads can stoke divisive public debate during elections and are prone to disinformation.
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You're a smart cookie, and would never typically fall for state-sponsored disinformation online.
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Russia denies U.S. allegations it hacked Democratic Party emails and ran a disinformation campaign.
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He'd actually uncovered an effort to share concealed links to disinformation on the site.
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The "War Room" where Facebook attempted to fight disinformation during the 2018 midterm elections.
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When you say "election hacking" it means something different than the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns.
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Eloise Todd, CEO, Best For Britain (& other panelists to be announced) • The Disinformation Economy
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Some lawmakers have already categorized today's revelation as proof of a Russian disinformation campaign.
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He has denied the allegations and has blamed disinformation campaigns for his loss. Rep.
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THE Brexit campaign has been plagued by little white lies, half-truths and disinformation.
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Sexual slander of the sort Ms Aro endured is a hallmark of disinformation campaigns.
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Ms Jankowicz notes that often the most convincing co-ordinated disinformation blurs its origins.
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This hearing comes one day after the Facebook news about a new disinformation campaign.
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Users, meanwhile, want a cleaner experience online; fake accounts and disinformation degrade their enjoyment.
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The report recommends several ways to address the disinformation campaigns and social media surveillance.
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Bernice King said that "disinformation" created the atmosphere that led to MLK's 1968 assassination.
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The most effective strategy for responding to Russian disinformation online is a proactive one.
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This has created a perfect environment for the spread of disinformation around the world.
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It isn't coincidental that the president shares the tactic of disinformation with our attackers.
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If the latter, U.S. politics has been torn apart by a Russian disinformation campaign.
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" A senior Trump administration official called Putin's remarks part of a Russian "disinformation campaign.
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The advent of the internet has also slashed the cost of conducting disinformation operations.
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Moreover, disinformation, propaganda and attempts to manipulate public perception have been documented throughout history.
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Misinformation and disinformation is spreading in a variety of ways all around the world.
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Finally, our lawmakers must understand that the disinformation problem is not exclusive to Facebook.
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Ufology is littered with such disinformation, people that make up conclusions without sufficient evidence.
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Two things I want to talk about, disinformation and regulation and the Google walkout.
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ExxonMobil: "Poor" -- Aggressively seeded disinformation about climate science and the risks of climate change.
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Representatives for Facebook, Twitter, and Google testified before Congress regarding Russian disinformation last fall.
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Why seeing is no longer believing "Deepfakes" may take disinformation to a new level.
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The result has been Russian disinformation spreading like a virus throughout the Western world.
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Selectively sharing information appears to be part of the government's strategy in countering disinformation.
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And in many cases, conservative-leaning or alt-right sites peddled considerable Russian disinformation.
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It also comes as the company grapples with criticism for disinformation and violent content.
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He described this as part of the Kremlin's "larger disinformation narrative" to sow confusion.
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And the worst part is, the new regulations haven't ended harassment, extremism or disinformation.
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Taiwan recognizes the threat of disinformation campaigns and is developing countermeasures to strengthen transparency.
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What the agents of social media disinformation began, Donald Trump, the new president, continued.
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WaPo has reviewed a draft report on Russian disinformation efforts during the 22019 campaign.
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Public officials should play an active role in combating rumors and disinformation, he said.
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The petroleum industry's decades-long campaign of cover-ups and disinformation is public knowledge.
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Another possibility — one that Mr. Steele has not ruled out — could be Russian disinformation.
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Mr. Coats again singled out Russia on Thursday, saying its disinformation campaign is ongoing.
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Last month Facebook said it would limit disinformation about the spread of the virus.
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube come under fire every day over disinformation, harassment and more.
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In both cases, users publicly admitted to spreading disinformation about Taiwan's response to coronavirus.
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Governments from Pakistan to Mexico to Washington are woefully unequipped to combat disinformation warfare.
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The result was a real-time spreading of disinformation started by Americans, for Americans.
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Facebook is setting up a central hub to root out disinformation and false news.
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But the fight against disinformation in Taiwan started years before the current presidential election.
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Domestic actors also played a significant role in spreading disinformation in the 2018 midterms.
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"The most powerful person in the country is a disinformation agent," he said, exasperated.
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Singer's PR firm recently launched a service specifically to deal with disinformation via deepfakes.
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THE KEY Online disinformation campaigns are not just a threat to the 2020 election.
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The measures, though, will do little to help the company with its disinformation problem.
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In 2016, election interference began with Russian disinformation and continued with America's amplifying it.
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Saudi Arabia appears to have simultaneously launched an online disinformation campaign to discredit Bezos.
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Russia has attempted to undermine our elections for years through disinformation and direct infiltration.
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YouTube should turn off recommendations on anti-Muslim content that pushes misinformation and disinformation.
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Go deeper: Senators briefed that CrowdStrike theory is Russian-backed disinformation campaign GOP Sen.
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What should we do about the disinformation and toxic content that fills the web?
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What we're reading: This deep dive into disinformation and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Last month, Twitter revealed details about a state-sponsored coordinated disinformation campaign from China.
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But disinformation does not have to sway many votes to be toxic to democracy.
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However, sophisticated attacks combine both technology and disinformation tactics to inflict the most harm.
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Disinformation: The campaign is awash in doctored videos, dodgy websites and manipulated Twitter accounts.
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Stability, ethnic solidarity and harmony in Xinjiang is the best response to such disinformation.
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US intelligence agencies have identified that theory as Russian disinformation meant to deflect blame.
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But bad journalism — like tabloid sensationalism, hyperpartisan fear-mongering, and deliberate disinformation — exploits them.
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Anxiety about outside influence has grown, usually centered on Russian hacking or disinformation efforts.
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It has nothing to do with being led astray by evil companions or disinformation.
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They also were successful in waging a pro-Trump disinformation campaign through social media.
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The country wants to know if Facebook will put the brakes on digital disinformation.
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And Facebook has decided not remove some of the more egregious examples of disinformation.
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Those disinformation efforts were likely to be in full force during the 2020 elections.
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Last year, Facebook announced it had taken down two separate Iranian-linked disinformation campaigns.
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Many EU governments have yet to set up their own disinformation monitoring command posts.
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Now we know for certain that Reddit was also part of Russia's disinformation strategy.
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That disinformation could influence the outcome of the 22016 election is hardly surprising, but "what is surprising is that the surge of disinformation affecting 22020 is happening much earlier than the 033 election," Luca Nicotra, a senior campaigner with Avaaz, told VICE News.
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Staffed with both policy and technology experts, the new committee should define and deploy metrics for measuring the impact of disinformation to paint a full picture of the disinformation challenge and the threat it poses to U.S. security and foreign policy interests.
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The S.V.R., situated like its American counterpart in a forest outside the capital, inherited from the K.G.B. a large and skilled unit in charge of disinformation, Service A. The "A" stood for active measures, as disinformation was renamed in the early 1960s.
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If we accept prima facie that Russian disinformation poses a real threat to democracy, is it acceptable to quote anonymous government officials who attempt to diminish or spin the dangers posed by that threat when they are the chief beneficiaries of disinformation?
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Among the recommendations, the paper calls for the creation of a so-called "Counter Disinformation Coalition" comprised of government and private sector representatives that would develop "best practices" for defending against disinformation, such as standards for social media companies to voluntarily adhere to.
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Alan Duncan, the former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, struggled to get her to focus on the extent of Russian disruption: "The current Russian disinformation activity is precisely the sort of disinformation that this project is designed to counter," he said.
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The House Intelligence Committee heard from four experts in artificial intelligence and disinformation Thursday morning.
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They look like epidemics of disinformation, meant to undercut the credibility of valid information sources.
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Facebook's new guidelines will also cover disinformation about whether or not your vote will count.
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India is a fascinating issue, because most of the disinformation is driven by domestic actors.
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But the social media disinformation campaign didn't end with the election of President Donald Trump.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the pitfalls of crowdsourcing knowledge in an era of disinformation.
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"All of this, to speak in literary language, is lies and disinformation," the spokesperson said.
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Those photos were then being used in website articles as part of a disinformation campaign.
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For Facebook, the evolution of Russia's disinformation techniques means it cannot afford to lose vigilance.
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"This will help them to use new tools and technologies to fight disinformation," Ansip suggested.
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It will also have access to autonomous weapons, devastating cyberattacks, and supercharged disinformation and propaganda.
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"I would stress that the Philippines could preview disinformation innovations in other countries," he said.
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After the El Paso and Dayton shootings, disinformation spread across spaces the public couldn't see.
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"It was basically a bunch of people getting together to talk about disinformation," he said.
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Nor why it hadn't closed them before if they were indeed Kremlin disinformation-spreading bots.
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That's what makes digitally amplified disinformation an existential threat to democracy and to civilized societies.
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And the weird way Macedonian teenagers pumped out disinformation about Trump during this election cycle.
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Disinformation, that was wide spread to manipulate the American people and she break an election.
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But this new development would come with new challenges like technological malfunctions and disinformation campaigns.
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There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences.
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But as we've come to discover, it's equally difficult to repress the spread of disinformation.
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The story of "Lisa" is an example of the same disinformation effort, except in Germany.
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Ukraine was a victim of Russian dezinformatsiya, or disinformation, long before it hit American shores.
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This involves more than identifying outright disinformation, of the sort published by anti-vaccination groups.
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This is a war on disinformation from the trenches, and children are the foot soldiers.
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Instead, they give more airtime to Santorum, so he can to continue to spread disinformation.
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Including countries with very fragile democracies where political disinformation could be a hugely potent weapon.
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With Facebook and Google, both hauled before Congress for questioning, the main problem was disinformation.
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All of the platforms had received sharp and deserved criticism for allowing disinformation to flourish.
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In America, the extent of Russian disinformation efforts became clear only when Congress began investigating.
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The firm is reported to have worked with Facebook and Google to spot disinformation campaigns.
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While misinformation may not be intended to deceive, disinformation is distributed intentionally and often strategically.
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There are problems with disinformation, harassment, "dehumanizing speech," and simply having a coherent public conversation.
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Fierce internet disinformation battles have gripped countries such as Brazil and Malaysia ahead of elections.
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I am concerned that disinformation is playing an outsized role in shaping our political discourse.
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Since becoming president, Donald Trump has waged a persistent disinformation campaign on the American people.
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One player in these sordid efforts at disinformation is former Obama Pentagon official Evelyn Farkas.
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Russia had employed similar disinformation tactics in the war against Ukraine, but never in Germany.
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Across the West, Russia has weaponized social media in disinformation campaigns, most notably during elections.
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Inoculation — against disease or indeed disinformation — helps protect the whole of us from damaging contagion.
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Nina Jankowicz of the Wilson Centre in Washington has dubbed such tactical smearing "sexualised disinformation".
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The latter point was made by disinformation researcher Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at Graphika.
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Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify to Congress about Russian trolls' efforts to spread disinformation.
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Another disturbing development revealed in the report: The increasing use of online disinformation in democracies.
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Even more automatized disinformation is likely with AI-enabled fakes — including of video and audio.
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I failed to prepare my employer for the disinformation campaign and that is on me.
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Lungescu said the most recent disinformation occurred earlier this month when Russian news website life.
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The similarities: The escalating disinformation campaigns bear striking resemblances to Russian campaigns, according to analysts.
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For example, only two (or fewer) national strategies explicitly address inequality, human rights, or disinformation.
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But the consequences of continuing to take no action against foreign disinformation are far worse.
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Will Hurd (R-Texas) argued that State Department cuts would only aid Russian disinformation efforts.
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And in many cases, concerted disinformation that has been traced back to the Russian government.
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And it appears that Russia may not confine its disinformation campaign to the European Union.
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He said that people spread disinformation about what happens when the light hits a card.
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Our mission is simple: Since the media won't prioritize correcting all the disinformation, we will.
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A Trump victory in November would not bode well for the fight against online disinformation.
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Disinformation doesn't just play with our heads; it can literally affect our health and safety.
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Pompeo has taken an aggressive approach in calling out disinformation, particularly from Beijing and Tehran.
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Its widespread disinformation efforts recently have been chronicled by a number of publications, including HuffPost.
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They are under fire for their role in undermining privacy, distributing disinformation and thwarting competition.
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The platforms and US government officials still aren't great at identifying and stamping out disinformation.
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"More needs to be done by the platforms to effectively tackle disinformation," the report said.
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Here's a look at the week's tech news: Almost everybody wants something done about disinformation.
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Until his assault, Mr. Orban's government had been "a dictatorship of disinformation," Mr. Hadhazy said.
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The European Union is weighing copyright regulations and rules to stop the spread of disinformation.
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Mr. Wray also cited attempts to manipulate news stories, spread disinformation and escalate divisive issues.
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That the leader of the government response consistently spreads disinformation about it is even scarier.
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Boris Johnson's UK government has set up a unit for combating disinformation relating to coronavirus.
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It is another facet of the disruptive disinformation campaigns that are unfolding on the site.
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We must try harder to avoid becoming a channel to spread disinformation, hatred or lies.
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Russian disinformation reached 126 million people on Facebook, but were any of them really swayed?
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"Fear is the biggest driver of disinformation; it's a perfect storm of misinformation," she said.
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And then the use of WhatsApp — WhatsApp: number one source of disinformation in Southeast Asia.
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But it will also prove just how consequential Trump's months of coronavirus disinformation really were.
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We've certainly seen that in the level of disinformation and the propaganda at both sides.
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Amid dwindling public trust, authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to combat potentially harmful disinformation.
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In order to deal with fake news and disinformation, countries are trying to legislate solutions.
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Almost immediately, a disinformation campaign began on social media to try to reframe the violence.
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One respondent said he's primarily concerned with the coordinated spread of disinformation across social media.
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She studies disinformation, she said, but Mr. Trump produced one claim she'd never come across.
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Making matters worse, cyber-enabled disinformation campaigns are sowing distrust in science, institutions and nations.
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It is not as though the United States hasn't dabbled in destabilization and disinformation campaigns.
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Disinformation thrives in a vacuum The campaigns aren't the only actors culpable in spreading misinformation.
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This is why the Russian disinformation and its grotesque twisting of facts is so effective.
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Nicknamed Truth Squads, it was a team that tracked and tried to expose Soviet disinformation.
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"We have this alternative media ecosystem that is driving a lot of disinformation," Higgins says.
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Conspiracy theories and disinformation, Jacobsen said, only serve to keep the facility's true purpose obscured.
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Perhaps the biggest amplification of disinformation, Mr. Decker said, can come from news media reports.
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Zhao has spread disinformation in the past and is known for his anti-US trolling.
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Good luck targeting messages when you can't be sure where misinformation ends and disinformation begins.
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The right-wing media is defending Mr. Trump, saying he is a victim of disinformation.
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Let's start with disinformation, which implies intent: Someone is trying to mislead when spreading it.
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Those efforts included disinformation campaigns on social media and the targeting of state election systems.
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It's hard to estimate the revenue the Russian disinformation sites earn from these programmatic ads.
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Reddit said on Friday that the leak was tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign.
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Reddit said on Friday that the leak was tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign.
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Indeed, to experienced observers, the dossier reads like a standard disinformation campaign of the Kremlin.
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And then Clinton, with help from Russia's disinformation machine, lost the 2016 election to Trump.
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Since then, Zuckerberg has vowed to improve the platform's safeguards against disinformation and election meddling.
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But taking a stand against scientific disinformation supports all scientists, wherever we may be employed.
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In Myanmar, disinformation shared on Facebook fueled chaos and confusion, leading to violence and riots.
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Peddling polarizing content and disinformation only grew easier and more lucrative as the decade progressed.
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The immediate concern is disinformation by hostile governments ultimately trying to influence our 2020 election.
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A specialist EU database has recorded almost 80 cases of disinformation about coronavirus since Jan.
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The leaks were, after all, not disinformation, even if they were obtained by criminal means.
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Mr. Zuckerberg has repeatedly tried to rid Facebook of toxic content, disinformation and other problems.
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" The report also noted that Russian cyberespionage often included "disinformation campaigns and political dirty tricks.
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This included disinformation, attempts by foreign countries to influence elections, and risks to personal data.
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And then you have the broader cyber issue, which I know you've covered extensively. Disinformation.
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Facebook lost several executives after a bruising series of privacy and disinformation scandals since 2016.
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Journalists are not employed by Twitter or Facebook or Google, but in reporting content to them that violates these platforms' rules, or actively pushing back against disinformation, they are fundamentally doing valuable work for them: "We do benefit," from journalists fighting disinformation, Dorsey said.
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Also notable: It continues to reject entirely the idea that Russian-backed disinformation campaigns have had any impact on domestic democratic processes at all — despite public remarks by prime minister Theresa May last year generally attacking Putin for weaponizing disinformation for election interference purposes.
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As part of research into state-sponsored disinformation that it undertook in the spring of 2018, Jigsaw set out to test just how easily and cheaply social media disinformation campaigns, or "influence operations," could be bought in the shadier corners of the Russian-speaking web.
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In March 2018, after negotiating with several underground disinformation vendors, Jigsaw analysts went so far as to hire one to carry out an actual disinformation operation, assigning the paid troll service to attack a political activism website Jigsaw had itself created as a target.
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Facebook had previously announced that $100,000 was spent on Facebook ads from June 2015 to May 2017 by Russian-linked disinformation sources, while an additional $50,000 was spent by Russians that signals indicate weren't or were only weakly connected to an organized disinformation campaign.
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"Often the term [foreign interference] implicitly assumes a state actor, but this campaign appears to be a notable instance of a citizen-led, grassroots foreign disinformation attack," said Nick Monaco, the head of the of Digital Intelligence Lab and a researcher of Chinese-language disinformation.
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The effort led by the W.H.O. "is very new," said Danny Rogers, who teaches about disinformation and narrative warfare at the New York University Center for Global Affairs and is also the chief technology officer of the Global Disinformation Index, which tracks misinformation activity online.
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He added that the efforts were "consistent" with disinformation campaigns Facebook has seen in the past.
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It's possible that Facebook's response to Russia's disinformation campaign could eventually start to hurt its business.
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Screenshot: TumblrAmerica was the target of broad, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns waged through social media platforms.
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" Koenders added: "We're still seeing a great deal of disinformation and attempts to discredit the investigation.
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Concerns range from attacks on the internet or power grid to disinformation campaigns on social media.
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The danger here lies in the fact that disinformation ecosystems are self sustaining and self propagating.
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Once again there is no truth to the disinformation put forth by anonymous sources and leakers.
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The account was finally removed by Twitter — more than two hours after it began tweeting disinformation.
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The specific disinformation identified by researchers was often connected to long-running conspiracies or false claims.
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Key to the spread of hate, division, and disinformation online is inaction from social media companies.
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"It's important to remind ourselves that Russian disinformation isn't the only game in town," he said.
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Russia is expanding the scope of its disinformation campaigns by focusing on a new target: Africa.
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It was about online disinformation and the way it feeds on irregularities both real and imagined.
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But the platform wants to cherrypick only the permissive aspects of regulation: don't moderate for disinformation.
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Other state actors have seen the success of Russia and realize the value of disinformation operations.
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CNN previously reported that this effort has extended to initiatives to monitor and tackle online disinformation.
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But Facebook said on Monday it is taking further steps to combat disinformation on its platform.
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Through their callow, craven behavior, McConnell's majority actually surrendered its chamber to the president's disinformation campaign.
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"Knowing that disinformation and propaganda accounts are out there makes it harder for them to operate."
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Disinformation and media manipulation researchers say Facebook's announcements Monday left them frustrated and concerned about 2020.
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At the height of the cold war 15,000 officers were working on psychological and disinformation warfare.
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We don't know if the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russians to help their disinformation operation.
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The flow of disinformation across these private spaces is both harder to track and to counter.
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But as Facebook's strategy for dealing with disinformation revealed earlier this year, that's no small task.
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What if the Kremlin's disinformation machine attempts to turn a European election, as German spooks fear?
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But there's no shortage of political disinformation flowing unchecked across its platforms as user uploaded 'content'.
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Abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots and human coordination, disinformation campaigns and divisive filter bubbles.
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In November 2016, Facebook and Google announced initiatives to curb mis- and disinformation on their platforms.
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That means improving election security, fighting harassment, weeding out disinformation, but also reconsidering its design ethics.
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Equally advertising revenue may be used to sustain sites responsible for 'fake news' content or 'disinformation'.
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She said reports of tens or hundreds of Russian casualties were disinformation inspired by Russia's opponents.
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Several Democratic campaigns said they rely on the Democratic National Committee for help protecting against disinformation.
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But foreign aggressions — including cyber-attacks, disinformation and financial influence — should not be downplayed or tolerated.
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Mr. Rosen then uses that information to link pages or groups with posts containing the disinformation.
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The Census Bureau, until now, has kept mostly mum about how it plans to counter disinformation.
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Her boss, General H.R. McMaster, closely studied Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its use of disinformation.
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Pelosi "is running the most sophisticated political warfare, the most sophisticated political disinformation campaign," he added.
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And Twitter said it's reviewing its own practices to prevent such disinformation campaigns from happening again.
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And why WhatsApp is talking about the need for collective action to combat the disinformation problem.
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Both Twitter and Facebook infamously failed to detect expansive disinformation campaigns run from Russia in 2016.
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What separates hate speech from offensive ideas, or misinformation from coordinated disinformation intended to incite violence?
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For some, this was a misguided attempt to document the problem of disinformation and fake news.
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Facebook's News Feed speeds up how friends show us photos but also how malcontents spread disinformation.
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Concerns over the artificial intelligence's ability to spread disinformation may be overblown, according to one expert.
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As a result, it's difficult to assess how successful the company is at ferreting out disinformation.
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YouTube has repeatedly been criticized for letting hateful content and disinformation run rampant on its platform.
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It is possible that there is some misinformation and disinformation because you don't know who's editing.
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In fact, it was more likely a disinformation or deception campaign by Russian state-sponsored hackers.
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It is psychological manipulation, executed with targeted digital disinformation designed to weaken a country from within.
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Ironically, Twitter and other social media outlets, notably Facebook, were the primary vector for Russian disinformation.
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With "How to Fake a Moon Landing," Cunningham reveals the roots of misinformation and intentional disinformation.
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In that case, the dossier becomes an instrument of Kremlin disinformation yielded by Putin's inner circle.
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The project's efforts included Facebook posts with disinformation intended to convince voters not to back Moore.
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A significant portion of the disinformation was related to U.S. involvement in regional conflicts, Gleicher said.
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But I do wonder, once all disinformation outlets are finally banned, where will their followers go?
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Supporting the journalists reporting these stories should be the top strategic priority for countering Russian disinformation.
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The best approach, I quickly decided, was to provide him a mix of information and disinformation.
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The New York Times: Repercussions of social media companies' inability to handle disinformation and hate speech.
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"Such a call never took place and this was an obvious example of disinformation," she said.
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The presumption is that disinformation campaigns will target Yanukovych's replacement, current president Petro Poroshenko, in particular.
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But what if Zuckerberg's vision of AI saving Americans from Russian disinformation agents is a mirage?
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Moscow used cyberattacks and disinformation to interfere in that election, according to the U.S. intelligence community.
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Social media companies have come under intense scrutiny over their failure to stop the disinformation campaigns.
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So far, China's attempts to spread disinformation and sow discord have been less sophisticated and obscure.
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"Russia is being blamed for disseminating disinformation," Moscow's embassy in The Hague said in a statement.
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So, tl;dr, don't expect Facebook to pro-actively investigate Russian disinformation; government must lead here.
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It spread disinformation and sowed division, posing as US citizens online, violating laws and geopolitical norms.
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" That term encompasses "false news, disinformation, or networks of fake accounts aimed at manipulating public opinion.
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Facebook has discovered Iranian disinformation activity on its platform and is working to reduce its impact.
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The Russian disinformation attacks could still make users weary to learn about voting from social media.
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Other members of Congress say they share some of his concerns about disinformation, privacy and competition.
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Astroscreen is a startup that uses machine learning and disinformation analysts to detect social media manipulation.
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They believe the poor approval ratings are because of what they perceive as disinformation and attacks.
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You've been covering the spread of online disinformation in the run-up to the midterm elections.
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In addition, Twitter has had to deal with disinformation, foreign interference and accusations of political bias.
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Strong one-off actions against widespread disinformation tactics, such as Twitter's recent move, can also help.
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Fierce internet disinformation battles gripped countries such as Brazil and Malaysia last year ahead of elections.
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But, in an era of widespread disinformation and harassment online, its time has come, Costolo said.
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RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming '5G Apocalypse.
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So how is this forgotten history of disinformation linked to today, and to the coronavirus outbreak?
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Europe has spent years preparing for an onslaught of election meddling, hacking, and disinformation from Moscow.
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Renée DiResta is the director of research at New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company that monitors disinformation.
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The Australian government launched a chatbot to address citizen questions and quell the spread of disinformation.
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Omar described disinformation networks such as that promoted by Power10 as a threat to US democracy.
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Democrats have said such an investigation is politically motivated and could even aid Russian disinformation efforts.
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But they still need media disinformation campaigns to dissuade the public from supporting Medicare for All.
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With the midterms approaching, Facebook has stepped up efforts to root out disinformation and rogue accounts.
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As COVID-19 continues to spread, major social networks like Facebook and Instagram are targeting disinformation.
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It has already been hacked even if not another ruble has been spent on spreading disinformation.
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How the seven rules of Soviet disinformation are being used to create today's fake news stories.
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Similar types of disinformation spread on social media in 2016, which makes companies like Twitter nervous.
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Since the dawn of vaccination there has been a war of disinformation, propagated by both sides.
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This is just the perfect nexus of fear and distrust for purveyors of disinformation to manipulate.
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"We see Russia is trying to meddle, to spread disinformation," Mr. Stoltenberg said in an interview.
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For that reason, around here we pay attention when the platforms take action to fight disinformation.
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Some recently released Russian disinformation shows how the Kremlin's professional trolls are adapting to Facebook's defenses.
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The technique has drawn laughs on YouTube, along with concern from lawmakers fearful of political disinformation.
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Making more data available would help researchers figure out more about how disinformation works and spreads.
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YouTube updated its policies on political disinformation just in time for the 2020 Democratic primary elections.
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Since 2016, there have been multiple congressional hearings about the challenges posed by misinformation and disinformation.
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Disinformation is intentional — it is created and spread by people who know it is not correct.
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Its disinformation campaign in 2016 is believed to have reached as many as 126 million Americans.
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The aim of any disinformation campaign is to foment bewilderment by trashing publicly agreed-upon facts.
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"You're going to see a lot of disinformation on TV about 'Medicare for All,'" Sanders said.
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She also said she would consider sanctions against countries that engage in election interference through disinformation.
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Many also noted that paid advertising represented only a small portion of disinformation on social media.
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In an effort to assuage the public on political disinformation, Facebook has only muddied the waters.
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After speaking out about her beating, Ms. Ghosh became the victim of a vicious disinformation campaign.
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White House Counsel for President of United States on the floor of Senate engaging in disinformation.
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It said the hackers had mixed false documents with authentic ones to "sow doubt and disinformation".
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Others saw its publication as evidence that Mr. Trump was the victim of a disinformation campaign.
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" And a Twitter spokesman said, "Disinformation is a societal problem and therefore requires a societal response.
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"This disclosure helps the public to gain a better understanding of how online disinformation is evolving."
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We also need to add intensity where states' defensive capabilities are least mature: disinformation and influence.
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The report recommends major chances to how disinformation and election interference are handled in this country.
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Horowitz notes some of the information Steele collected could have been disinformation planted by the Russians.
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Accordingly, his administration and supporters have employed several disinformation tactics to justify US aggression toward Iran.
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In recent days, hackers have defaced government websites and pursued divisive disinformation campaigns on social media.
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Soon, any attempt to contain the spread of the disinformation in the video would prove futile.
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Governments are spreading disinformation to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs.
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And it drew quick rebukes from some disinformation researchers who warned it's irresponsible without hard evidence.
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Governments are spreading disinformation to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs.
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US officials say they have uncovered a Russian disinformation campaign spreading conspiracy theories about the coronavirus.
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But the tour imagery takes on a lot more: information and disinformation, war, surveillance, consumption, persuasion.
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Matthew Rosenberg, who covers political disinformation and is based in Washington, discussed the tech he's using.
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One of those problems is the impact of foreign disinformation campaigns targeting service-members and veterans.
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Former CIA Cindy Otis and other disinformation experts highlighted some of the misinformation in Twitter threads.
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Global elections are under threat from disinformation, and not enough is being done to protect them.
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A security and disinformation newsletter from the D.N.C. highlighting best practices is also sent out regularly.
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They have publicly stated that Russia aims to influence, demoralize and confuse us through disinformation operations.
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Because we do not have a strategy on dealing with disinformation from a nation-state actor.
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"Once [disinformation campaigns are] found, society as a whole is faced with a choice," he said.
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On Sunday, Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, was on "Meet the Press" spreading this disinformation.
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Cyber and informational attacks on these targets can take the form of disinformation campaigns orchestrated, e.g.
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During Tuesday's debate, the DNC will use a software tool called Trendolizer to track trending disinformation.
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They have endangered our democracy and enabled the spread of disinformation and hatred on their platform.
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But the same tools would also be exploited to promote disinformation and fringe or hateful ideologies.
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But it's difficult to say whether that will be enough to stem the tide of disinformation.
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"Viral disinformation is being used to manipulate and agitate actual people, real people, into hateful actions."
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The platform has been used to spread hate speech and disinformation about the Rohingya Muslim people.
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On the one hand, the company wants to curtail the spread of disinformation across its site.
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" Tumblr said the Russia-linked accounts were solely focused on spreading disinformation by posting "organic content.
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You don't want to get so fatigued that you check out, because that's how disinformation works.
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"This Iranian active measures campaign shows that third-party adversaries have learned a lesson from 2016, disinformation works, and it works best when combining social media with old-school local newspaper outreach," Thomas Rid, a professor at Johns Hopkins who studies government disinformation campaigns, told CNN.
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"From what we've already seen, it's clear that the 2020 election campaign will be shot through with mis- and disinformation," said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University who has written about disinformation in the coming campaign.
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Another new measure announced today is a dedicated Rapid Alert System which the EC says will facilitate "the sharing of data and assessments of disinformation campaigns and to provide alerts on disinformation threats in real time", with knowledge-sharing flowing between EU institutions and Member States.
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But it is also encouraging work on innovative tech-powered fixes to the complex problem of disinformation — describing AI ("subject to appropriate human oversight") as set to play a "crucial" role for "verifying, identifying and tagging disinformation", and pointing to blockchain as having promise for content validation.
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Although much of the focus has been on activity linked to trolls working for the Russian government, which used disinformation spreading tactics to try to influence the outcome of the election, Iran has emerged as a separate powerhouse in its use of spreading disinformation on the platform.
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In a disinformation age, Macedonian and Western officials say the flurry of social media activity is just that — disinformation directed by Russian-backed groups trying to stoke fears and depress turnout in a vote that could put this Balkan nation on a path to join NATO.
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Disinformation is another cult hallmark, Hassen saidHassen said cult leaders also make liberal use of disinformation — a tactic which Trump has embraced with vigor, from exaggerating crowd sizes to redrawing hurricane maps, often with the goal of demonstrating that a false claim he made is actually true.
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David Karpf, a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington, makes a parallel argument in an article titled "On Digital Disinformation and Democratic Myths": The first-order effects of digital disinformation and propaganda, at least in the context of elections, are debatable at best.
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Although the US government observed Russian disinformation campaigns on social media during the revolution in Ukraine in 2014 — and even sent teams to that country to help counter them — it didn't think such disinformation attempts would be effective against the US, Hayden told CNN earlier this year.
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The researchers say their results show that Google is not adhering to the spirit of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation, a self-regulatory commitment the company signed up to, in order to stop disinformation-focused websites from generating revenue off the back of fake news.
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Twitter bots, trolls, and social media disinformation campaigns have taken a prominent role in Mexico's democratic process.
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Echoing assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies, Clinton said the Russian government wanted to spread disinformation about her.
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It was as if a coordinated disinformation campaign had been orchestrated, creating an inscrutable buffer around him.
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Iran and Russia have denied allegations that they have used social media platforms to launch disinformation campaigns.
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Woolsey said it would be fair to say there is evidence that Russia was guilty of disinformation.
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Fake news and disinformation are just a few of the symptoms of what's wrong and what's rotten.
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Tait, who spoke about the history of (mainly Russian) disinformation, won the conference prize for best speaker.
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Once it recognizes what is happening, the company should identify the accounts and users propagating the disinformation.
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During and after police and protesters clashed on the street, different types of disinformation have spread online.
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Zakharova said media reports about dozens or hundreds of Russian dead in the Syria clashes were "disinformation".
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As the cathedral burned, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and coordinated disinformation campaigns began to spread across social media.
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In the United States, Russia's social media disinformation campaigns are often seen as an election-tampering issue.
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" The report dubs this technique "ephemeral disinformation" because "the message remains even though the evidence is ephemeral.
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For example, Russia used the platform to run a disinformation campaign that interfered in the 2016 election.
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The second volume, on Russian efforts to spread disinformation on social media, was made public in October.
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Wickrematunge recalled meeting a representative from Facebook at a conference on online disinformation at Stanford in 2017.
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That could favor populists like Trump, whose rhetoric often veers into the realm of conspiracy and disinformation.
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This unit was charged with foreign disinformation, which it spread through a network of officers outside Russia.
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"While the correlation is clear, the causation is not," says Peter Pomeranzev, an expert on Russia's disinformation.
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The second volume, on Russian efforts to spread disinformation on social media, was made public in October.
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Facebook adds that open source reporting and work by partners which investigate disinformation helped identify the network.
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It may turn out that Parscale did nothing wrong and had no connections to Russia's disinformation campaign.
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MI5's Parker said Russia had sowed large-scale disinformation in an attempt to divide the West.
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We've been talking about Russia's efforts to sow division in America and spread disinformation for a while.
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Social media's filtering and sorting algorithms also crucially failed to make any distinction between information and disinformation.
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Obama administration official and current CNN commentator Van Jones called Clinton's comments "disinformation" on that network Friday.
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A Twitter spokesperson also told us: Disinformation is a societal problem and therefore requires a societal response.
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Privacy seems to be an obvious one that has clearly been breached in the context of disinformation.
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Facebook has estimated that 126 million users saw Russian disinformation on the platform during the 2016 campaign.
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Second, there&aposs the doggie dossier which is about Russian disinformation being used to slander Donald Trump.
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Taiwan's is worried about disinformation campaigns from China, which it accuses of trying to manipulate Taiwanese elections.
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The campaigns have echoes of the Russian-inspired disinformation effort in the US during the 2016 election.
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Social media companies obliged to take down known sources of harmful content, including proven sources of disinformation.
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The company has struggled, as most social media companies have, with disinformation campaigns, malicious behavior and spam.
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CNN reports that the platform has blocked hashtags like #vaccinescauseautism and #vaccinesarepoison, the most obvious disinformation campaigns.
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Our goal was to literally lay out the map of the mechanics of how disinformation operations work.
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Fierce internet disinformation battles have gripped countries, such as Brazil and Malaysia last year ahead of elections.
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The attacks dovetailed with other Russian disinformation campaigns The report covers more than just the hacking effort.
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They identified certain accounts, some overseas, that were supposedly behind the distribution of a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Beyond advertising, Facebook also has been blamed for spreading disinformation more generally, with deadly consequences in Myanmar.
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Dartmouth College Political Scientist Brendan Nyhan has studied the ways information and disinformation affect political processes extensively.
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In Russia, the Kremlin finances a huge army of trolls who post disinformation all over the web.
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" He added that "foreign aggressions, including cyberattacks, disinformation and financial influence, should never be downplayed or tolerated.
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A second incident of a disinformation campaign during the race was revealed this week by the Times.
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In November, the European Union launched "Disinformation Review," a weekly compendium of pro-Kremlin distortions and untruths.
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"When an individual sees this disinformation, believes it, and then shares it, that's misinformation," the report said.
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Representatives from nine countries have gathered for an international hearing on disinformation, starting at 5:30 a.m.
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Notably, the German Marshall Fund runs a Russian social media disinformation tracking site known as Hamilton 68.
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This case demonstrates that strong reporting from media groups like Bellingcat will easily disarm Russian disinformation campaigns.
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His heir, Octavian, used a disinformation campaign to convince the Senate to declare war against Mark Antony.
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Disinformation is when false or manipulated information or imagery is deliberately used to do harm to someone.
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It's the first time Facebook has revealed any Saudi-linked efforts to spread disinformation on its platform.
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The 85-page report outlined Russia's disinformation campaign through social media channels, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Make the public more aware of Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign — with the assistance of reputable media organizations.
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The report also accused Google's search engine of elevating disinformation and extremist content and gave an example.
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Experts say there are post-2016 examples of disinformation campaigns in the U.S. that aren't election-related.
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Disinformation campaigns could seek to misinform voters in an effort to deter them from casting a ballot.
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The search engine giant has not responded to requests for comment on the Hong Kong disinformation campaigns.
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But Russians were there during an election, offering bribes, spreading disinformation and recruiting an apocalyptic cult leader.
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There was a disinformation campaign on social media and an attempt to bolster so-called spoiler candidates.
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When you talk about the potential uses of AI in disinformation, and influence in perspective, that's scary.
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"That's the point of disinformation," Brookie said "They're inserting themselves into a very real and organic conversation."
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Several newspapers — including The New York Times — have noticed that Twitter is a breeding ground for disinformation.
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The Disinformation Review is published every Tuesday to show the latest examples and trends in Russian trolling.
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Watts added that the FBI had taken note of Russia's disinformation campaign on social media in 2014.
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This disinformation is being spread by interest groups and advocacy organizations on both sides of the aisle.
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Spreading disinformation about the shooters motivations and political affiliations doesn't help anyone and deepens America's political divides.
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In response, the European Union established the East Stratcom Task Force to highlight and debunk Russian disinformation.
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Amid the disinterest and disinformation, I started running into some genuine outsider interest in the MMA world.
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I'd like them to work with the investigators who are tracking patterns of both disinformation and harassment.
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Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will testify at the Senate Intelligence Committee's hearing next week on disinformation.
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"I failed to prepare my employer for the disinformation campaign and that is on me," Stamos tweeted.
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Or a double agent, sent by Tehran to spread disinformation, or to learn what the Americans knew?
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We have the inside story of a rare blow against Russia's global campaign of disinformation and subversion.
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We've seen disinformation spread on WhatsApp as well, in ways that have been incredibly harmful to people.
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They would contribute to the crisis of trust that makes Russian disinformation successful in the first place.
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In 21990 he became the deputy commander of the Czech service's Department for Active Measures and Disinformation.
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At the same time, mistrust in voting systems has grown around disinformation campaigns during the 2016 election.
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But ahead of the U.S. midterms next month, more online disinformation is now being made in America.
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Essentially, conservatives want to create a world where objective information and right-wing disinformation are treated equally.
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It may well be the case that Russian disinformation did not swing the election for Mr. Trump.
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The doctored video of Mr. Zuckerberg shows that A.I. technology is also being used to create disinformation.
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Every Democratic candidate should have a plan for how to counter disinformation and misinformation in American politics.
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Yet European officials said the report was significant because it highlighted the "new normal" of disinformation campaigns.
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Independent investigators had long warned that Europe was vulnerable to disinformation campaigns ahead of last month's vote.
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This activity caught the attention of Caroline Orr, a Virginia-based researcher who studies disinformation and elections.
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Other outlets that routinely push out disinformation subsequently picked up the theory and added their own twists.
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Since then, Russia has spread other disinformation in Lithuania and in other countries in the Atlantic alliance.
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The Russian disinformation operations that affected the 2016 United States presidential election are by no means over.
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THE STONE The toxic disinformation of social media has rendered traditional forms of humor quaint and futile.
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Disinformation can be defeated by treating the crisis as we responded to infectious diseases in the past.
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On his agenda: A discussion with President Vladimir Putin about disinformation efforts before European elections this month.
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Facebook has similarly issued several statements this month about planned changes to address disinformation on its platform.
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Do you see those as solutions for this disinformation, or will it come from big companies instead?
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By Friday, the social media giants, already under pressure to fight online disinformation, were forced to respond.
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The company's latest purge of disinformation highlighted the role that cybersecurity companies play in policing social platforms.
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The World Health Organization's director-general said last month that disinformation is as dangerous as COVID-19.
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Facebook said it had removed 652 fake accounts, pages and groups that were trying to sow disinformation.
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The Brennan Center report's findings echo warnings from top federal officials around Russian disinformation in recent months.
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Meanwhile, the Russians show no signs of slowing their efforts to disrupt American elections through disinformation campaigns.
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Finally, Facebook and law enforcement officials seem to be on the same page in the disinformation fight.
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I'm asking if they are willing participants in acts of disinformation, both in technique and in substance.
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At the time, Facebook had no policy on disinformation or any resources dedicated to searching for it.
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Disinformation has been a common theme throughout the conflict, and it was unclear exactly who was responsible.
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Opinion Russian Disinformation: From Cold War to Kanye CreditCredit WATCH: This is a three-part film series.
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Why it matters: Social media companies have battled disinformation campaigns from Russia and Iran, among other countries.
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As the coronavirus spread across the world, Fox News became the epicenter of disinformation about the crisis.
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It has accused of China of spreading disinformation and lying about the number of cases it has.
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Democrats, too, are warning of a potential Russian disinformation effort at the heart of the Biden investigation.
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Ben Nimmo, who helped create the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, is pioneering the disinformation investigations.
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As in other countries, disinformation in Taiwan also highlight and widen existing political social and cultural rifts.
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Disinformation tactics will evolve as Silicon Valley invests heavily to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election.
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Facebook has gotten into hot water over how it deals with health-related disinformation in the past.
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Until they shift gears, they will be part of the problem when it comes to Russian disinformation.
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What we're reading: This deep dive by The Atlantic into disinformation and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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"Although it uses common disinformation techniques, I do not think the intention is to deceive," he said.
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Let it stay up and potentially misinform voters, or take it down because it flirts with disinformation?
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His campaign did not respond to Tony yesterday about whether he planned to pledge against sharing disinformation.
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The new policy comes amid a raft of changes aimed at improving election security and combatting disinformation.
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Disinformation has long been used by states, organizations, or groups to support their ambitions, interests or ideologies.
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China typically focuses its disinformation efforts inward, toward the citizens of mainland China and its disputed territories.
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Disinformation campaigns used to consist of trolls and bots orchestrated and manipulated to produce a desired result.
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Climate change and technological innovations—particularly in the realm of disinformation and cyberwarfare—also threaten global stability.
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"Trying to blame Ukraine for the interference is not inconsistent with Russian disinformation active measures," said Sen.
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And that's just bad for democracy and it only paves the way for more disinformation and corruption.
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Their experiments involve testing how well the software can mimic or amplify online disinformation and propaganda material.
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The EU regulators said Facebook needs to step its partnerships with fact-checkers and academics researching disinformation.
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All social media CEOs have said they&aposve had moderation, disinformation, and manipulation decisions escalated to them.
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Fittingly, Mr Giuliani's main source of disinformation on Ukraine was Yuriy Lutsenko, a controversial former prosecutor-general.
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The book is unscientific propaganda from authors with connections to the disinformation-machinery of the Heartland Institute.
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And that has changed, where people now have many platforms they turn to for information or disinformation.
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Schiff is the Democrats' go-to carnival barker when it comes to spreading copious amounts of disinformation.
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As part of that policy, Warren pledges not to employ disinformation in her campaign in any way.
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Elizabeth Warren, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, unveiled a plan to fight online disinformation.
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The American government completely missed the significance and potential power of the disinformation component of the attack.
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The American government completely missed the significance and potential power of the disinformation component of the attack.
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Already, viral conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus have been spreading on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
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Facebook could not escape the shadow of the dueling electoral scandals of Cambridge Analytica and Russian disinformation.
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Russia is also suspected of orchestrating a broader disinformation campaign to smear NATO&aposs reputation in Lithuania.
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The brief details how Russia uses "active measures" and "actors" to spread disinformation and influence politics worldwide.
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There is a disinformation campaign raging right now, and this time it's being led by President Trump.
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But this misses the larger point: that both the main contenders have turned disinformation into an art.
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The company zeroed in on this grey area to VICE News, disputing The Global Disinformation Index methodology.
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Foster, for example, cited trolls impersonating journalists or other more reliable figures to give disinformation greater legitimacy.
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Zeman and his team have a track record of using Russian techniques such as provocation and disinformation.
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In 22019, Britain's top scientific academy, the Royal Society, called on Exxon to stop funding climate disinformation.
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Russia jails bloggers and shuts down nongovernmental organizations while flooding the country, and the world, with disinformation.
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Michael Bennet: The greatest tech-related challenge in the short term is disinformation in the 2020 election.
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Publishers are also prevented from including reports or links to outside websites that could be considered disinformation.
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We will also examine the possibility that cyber-interference and disinformation campaigns could affect how people vote.
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And indeed it is more likely that this is part of Russian disinformation campaign, in my judgment.
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While Russian spies do occasionally assassinate foreign experts and opposition spies, most of their work is disinformation.
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Its responsibilities included "active measures," a form of political warfare that included media manipulation, propaganda and disinformation.
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AI will amplify disinformation campaigns and create new problems like computer-generated deepfakes designed to undermine truth.
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It was the first time Facebook and Twitter had taken down accounts linked to disinformation from China.
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It was the first time Facebook and Twitter had taken down accounts linked to disinformation from China.
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Mr. Trump's penchant for disinformation long ago left America's friends scratching their heads over what to believe.
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More recently, it has also had to deal with disinformation, foreign interference and accusations of political bias.
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On social media, filter bubbles calcify ideologies, recommendation algorithms quietly radicalize users, and trolls peddle outright disinformation.
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And it drove more engagement with Russian disinformation in 2016 than Facebook, according to the NYU report.
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Russia used cyberwarfare, disinformation and military force to inhibit ties to the West by Georgia and Ukraine.
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"The disinformation campaign is a non-military measure for achieving political goals," it said in a statement.
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"If a country can't recognize that domestic disinformation is just as much a threat as the foreign variety then they will be unable to counter either," Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and author of the upcoming book How to Lose the Information War, told CNN.
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A study released Sunday by The Global Disinformation Index, a UK nonprofit that rates sites' trustworthiness, found that 70% of roughly 1,700 disinformation sites it analyzed were getting so-called "programmatic ads" — ads placed automatically — from Google, putting brand names such as Audi and Sprint next to junk content.
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad WolfChad WolfUndocumented aliens should stay away as COVID-19 rages in the US Hillicon Valley: Twitter says Chinese official's virus disinformation doesn't violate rules | Hackers target WHO | Senators urge agencies to stop coronavirus robocalls DHS chief: False reports of national shutdown may be part of Russian disinformation campaign MORE said Sunday that false reports that the U.S. is imposing a national quarantine because of the novel coronavirus are part of a "disinformation campaign" possibly stemming from Russia.
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Meanwhile, disinformation campaigns are fueling conspiracy theories about the Parkland shooting and the malicious cryptojacking trend rages on.
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They are the co-authors of "Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet."
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Memes, disinformation campaigns, and political messages can bubble up through alternative sites onto mainstream ones, the researchers noted.
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With its lickspittle questions and cheerful disinformation, it feels like nothing so much as North Korean state press.
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Feinstein wanted to know how many automated bot accounts that spread disinformation have been taken down by Facebook.
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The wise man and the villagers had entered the Disinformation Age and no one was better for it.
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The bans have, in one sense, served their purpose; officials say that overt Russian-originated disinformation has decreased.
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That's where internet trolls often plan online harassment and disinformation campaigns aimed at generating outrage and media coverage.
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"The level of detail is staggering," said Nina Jankowicz, a Russia scholar who has studied Russian disinformation campaigns.
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Sandberg and Dorsey both faced questions concerning how their respective companies were combating Russian interference and disinformation campaigns.
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Michelle Goldberg notes that disinformation spread over Facebook sows discord internationally as well as in the United States.
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That means the task of fighting mis- and disinformation will largely fall to players within the political system.
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In an age of social media and disinformation, that kind of adoption presumably happens faster than ever before.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Google representatives are about to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee about Russian disinformation online.
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The platforms on which fake content appears (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter) have taken some steps to combat disinformation.
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So no pressure for regular collaborative moots vis-a-vis tackling things like botnets spreading malicious disinformation then.
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Zuckerberg also said this year's midterms would be subjected to a "version 2" of Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign.
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There's this bottleneck, and part of the stranglehold on it has been decades of disinformation and climate denial.
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They said they were unaware of the disinformation efforts until the tech giant announced them publicly last week.
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The efforts by presidential associates like Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine are helping set up a 2020 disinformation campaign.
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"President Trump will no doubt gloat about these findings and misuse them in his ongoing disinformation campaign," Rep.
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Disinformation, disseminated through the awesome channels of the bully pulpit, will likely be integral to Trump's reelection campaign.
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As described in the report, almost all the important elements of disinformation campaigns are outside of Facebook's control.
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It's recently become popular with trolls and far-right activists as a private place to plan disinformation campaigns.
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