The idea of any democratic government essentially #censoring an app or platform for political reasons is deeply worrying $ hypocritical
Yet, I strongly freel something has to be done about TikTok, and its potential as a tool in #Chinese state-led #disinformation campaigns. But there's a more fundamental problem. Why should TikTok have access to the US, Japanese & European markets when platforms like #LINE, #Spotify, #Facebook#Whatsapp & #Signal can't be used in China?
"Africa's top anti-fake news digital platform, FactCheckAfrica, has announced the launch of an AI-infused platform to assist journalists and ordinary citizens in verifying the accuracy of information."
My book 'PROPAGANDA: from disinformation and influence to operations and information warfare' treats the subject adequately, comprehensively, broadly, expertly. Information surrounds us. How does information influence work? An expert arrangement of the subject. https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/propaganda-my-book-on-information-security/
#Journalism#Media#News#Denmark#Objectivity#FakeNews#Disinformation#Misinformation: "In this article, we examine how journalists try to uphold ideals of objectivity, clarity, and epistemic authority when using four overlapping terms: fake news, junk news, misinformation, and disinformation. Drawing on 16 qualitative interviews with journalists in Denmark, our study finds that journalists struggle to convert the ideals of clarity and objectivity into a coherent conceptual practice. Across interviews, journalists disagree on which concepts to use and how to define them, accusing academics of producing too technical definitions, politicians of diluting meaning, and journalistic peers of being insufficiently objective. Drawing on insights from journalism scholarship and rhetorical argumentation theory, we highlight how such disagreements reveal a fundamental tension in journalistic claims to epistemic authority, causing a continuous search for unambiguous terms, which in turn produces the very ambiguity that journalists seek to avoid."
@finche
You say it is a "fact" that they have nothing to do with Israel. Cite for that "fact"? And no, the IDF is not credible; anything sourced from them is not a 'fact".
I don't want to fall for #disinformation like you won't. Therefore I wanted to point out, that the corpses could have been murdered by Israel, but that isn't sure. There are individuals in Gaza, often called terrorists, known for brutality, and so I didn't rule out a deed of palestinian murderers as well.
"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."
> still continue to disseminate terrible pieces of information, untruths, rumours
"[Politicians making blatantly untrue claims] is where media's role should be, to [say] 'no, that's just a lie', and just squash it. But they don't. They just repeat it. They amplify it."
"Russia's one path to victory in Ukraine leads through minds and mouths in Washington, DC. Russian and Chinese propaganda therefore celebrates the inability of Congress to pass aid for Ukraine, and praises those who hinder the passage of such a bill. But the specific propaganda memes that China spreads (and some American leaders repeat) about the war are of Russian origin."
"Russia is the leader in this field; China is imitating Russian techniques and Russian tropes. …
Insofar as legislators such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and J.D. Vance are vectors of propaganda, they are themselves playing a part of the Russian (or Russo-Chinese) operation."
Reading various news about russian secret operations in europe it's clear there is already a covert war going on, on par with the cold war of the 80s it seems, with GRU and FSB involved in all kind of operations. #russia#GRU#FSB#spying#disinformation#geopolitics@geopolitics
Microsoft says Russian interference in US elections is already underway, and it's more effective than you think
Microsoft says Russian interference in US elections is already underway, and it's more effective than you think #microsoft#russian#US#election#interference#disinformation
A #juror was quickly dismissed at the start. She was among the 7 already selected, she said she was very worried that despite the fact the court ruled to keep jurors’ name secret, she would still be exposed & targeted.
It’s unclear what her friends were messaging, but the concerns reflect the reality that #media outlets are publishing details about jurors were revealed in open court, that some #RightWingcommentators use to say if jurors would be pro #Trump or not.
Prosecutors asked Judge #Merchan to rule Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews’ #JesseWatters falsely claiming that some of the prospective jurors are “undercover liberal activists." [#disinformation#propaganda]
More about the question of whether #Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews' #JesseWatters, Trump didn’t “repost” Watters, he wrote out his own post referencing Watters’s false characterization of prospective jurors.
Laws, ethical debates? It's all too late. The cat's out of the bag. Women over 60, 70 from our village share things like this on WhatsApp and laugh their heads off: https://mastodon.online/@asol@mastodon.social/112291529251522267
Can I take a photo of you? - Why? - I can do that with you too! - Oops!
TIME Magazine noted PH President Marcos Jr. attempts to rehabilitate the name of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and that his win in the elections was thanks to the "whitewashing" of his family's plunder of the country.
#House Speaker #MikeJohnson is plowing ahead on a #ForeignAid plan that has roiled his conference & prompted 2 #Republicans to push an effort to oust him….
But instead of the complex 4-part plan he floated this week, Johnson now intends to try to pass 5 bills — 1 each for #aid to #Ukraine, #Israel, & #IndoPacific allies, …a #GOP wish list of #ForeignPolicy priorities & a 5th…to address widespread Republican… [#border ] demands….
#GOP leadership announced that the #House would stay in session until Sat to consider the bills.
[good friggin luck]
The new approach is risky & is already blowing up on the speaker, who…is being threatened by …#MarjorieTaylorGreene to invoke a “motion to vacate” to topple #MikeJohnson if he puts #Ukraine#aid on the floor, something to which many #FarRight#Republicans aka consumers of [#Russian#disinformation; #Putin & #Trump lackeys] object.
Microsoft says Russian disinformation campaign targeting US election has begun (kyivindependent.com)
The focus of the new campaign is to spread "divisive content," including criticism of U.S. support for Ukraine, the Microsoft report said.