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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the following-in-leader's-footsteps dept.

Elections in 18 separate nations were influenced by online disinformation campaigns last year, suggests research.

Independent watchdog Freedom House looked at how online discourse was influenced by governments, bots and paid opinion formers.

In total, 30 governments were actively engaged in using social media to stifle dissent, said the report.

Educating users to spot fake news and making tech firms police their networks could combat the manipulation, it said.

Hacking must explain why voters are going off-script.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:38PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:38PM (#597376) Journal

    Hostile foreign intelligence agencies are waging misinformation campaigns against American citizens? What about that one time CNN got a story wrong?

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