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Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:21AM (#597615)

    Also the detector works 100% on the premise that their shit don't stink.