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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: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:04PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:04PM (#597412) Journal

    They hacked Trump's servers, too. [cnbc.com]

    Yet they only released dirt on Clinton.

    Lying by omission is misinformation.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @08:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @08:54PM (#597450)

    Maybe Trump doesn't have incriminating emails because he will tell you straight up what a piece of shit he is? It doesn't take a hack to find dirt on twitterman.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @08:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @08:28PM (#598749)

    "There was no evidence the hackers ultimately broke into server computers at the Trump Organization or other Trump interests," says that article.