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martyb
on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:53AM
from the following-in-leader's-footsteps dept.
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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Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year
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(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:14PM
It looks like so called mainstream got themselves into catch 22 situation. They were feeding so much bullshit to the population for so long, the said population lost all the defenses and now only lazy can't feed anything to "the People" at will. Tough spot indeed.
I am surprised there are still no offerings of "election toolkits" similar to say site penetration ones.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.