Collaborate Disseminate
Facebook and Twitter got a lot of heat, but “Instagram’s appeal is that’s where the kids are, and that seems to be where the Russians went.” Continue reading Instagram became the preferred tool in Russia’s propaganda war
Good essay on the security risks — to democratic discourse — of chatbots…. Continue reading Security Risks of Chatbots
On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. On November 9, 2018, President Donald Trump started tweeting about the senatorial elections in Florida and Arizona. Without any evidence whatsoever, he said that Democrats were trying to… Continue reading Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government
In the wake of another bad news cycle for Facebook, the company has found an unlikely ally: the former chief information security officer whose exit was responsible for a previous round of controversy. Alex Stamos has been defending the social media giant following a Nov. 14 report in the New York Times which revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg sought to ignore systemic problems within the social media platform. Zuckerberg and Sandberg “ignored warning signs” that foreign operatives could exploit Facebook’s reach to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and inspire “campaigns of hate,” the Times reported. Both Zuckerberg and Sandberg have defended the company since the report’s publication. Stamos largely has stood alongside them, despite a reportedly acrimonious departure in which he wrote a note to colleagues blaming Facebook’s current woes on “tens of thousands of small decisions made over the last decade.” In an […]
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Over 1m tweets show that we’re suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders. Continue reading Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
In the 1950s and 1960s, the NSA was very worried about employees spilling secrets. Here’s some of the best internal propaganda posters that taught them to keep their mouths shut. Continue reading The NSA Just Released 136 Historical Propaganda Posters
The Republican party has apparently created a series of domains to discredit and attack former FBI director James Comey. Meanwhile, Democratic party sympathizers appear to have created similar domains to counter the Republicans’ anti-Comey campaign. Continue reading Evidence Suggests the GOP Bought at Least 17 Anti-James Comey Domains
A sloppy mistake linked Guccifer 2.0 to Russian military intelligence officers, according to a new report. But this was hardly the only mistake the hacker made in his months-long existence. Continue reading Guccifer 2.0 Was Always Sloppy
What more do you want (or need, for that matter), in an astute and equally important – truthful – examination of what makes those pesky Rooskies tick. In this case, personified by that old KGB spymaster Putin. Today’s Must Read.
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via Cagle.com comes this thought-provoking editorial cartoon entitled ‘Russian Troll’by the eponymous Steve Sack.
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