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> "coordinated inauthentic behavior" Shouldn't they come out and say propaganda campaigns. I still have questions about what they deem as acceptable and where
by monksy 8y ago
> "coordinated inauthentic behavior"
Shouldn't they come out and say propaganda campaigns.
I still have questions about what they deem as acceptable and where they place hte line.
- casefields 8y agoNo because then they’ll have to answer for the “legitimate” propaganda that we are fine with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America Until 2013 it was illegal to broadcast VOA to Americans: https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-14160-us-repeals-ban-broadcasting-voice-america-other-government-funded-news-american-audien https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-14160-us-repeals-ban...
- equalunique 8y agoSpeaking of VOA & Russian meddling, I wonder why CrowdStrike would not recant their Russian hacking claims after Ukraine proved to VOA that they were fabricated: https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html https://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-...
- nvr219 8y agoThey're probably avoiding that word because propaganda is most closely associated with governments and they are not sure that this is driven by a government.
- andrewla 8y agoPeople can reasonably disagree on what constitutes propaganda, which is why I like the language that they are using here. Coordinated inauthentic behavior -- multiple account purporting to be unrelated acting in tandem. Regardless of where you land on the magnitude of election interference vs. information warfare, and state actors vs. trolls vs. hacker collectives, this behavior, using sock puppets to create the impression that information is coming from multiple independent sources, is worth exposing.
- monksy 8y ago> People can reasonably disagree on what constitutes propaganda, which is why I like the language that they are using here. However in this case they're using alternative language to manipulate the reader that their judgement is correct.
- andrewla 8y agoI'm way more willing to accept this policy than I would a policy, say, of 32 accounts that have been "issuing propaganda" or "spreading lies" or "failing fact checks" or "interfering with an election" or "saying offensive things". Each of those other heuristics sound horrifyingly Orwellian. The judgments involved in enforcing this policy seem way easier to apply without excluding individuals with genuine opinions that they wish to voice to their friends or followers on the platform.
- cirgue 8y ago'Propaganda campaigns' is a bright-red handle that the same propagandists you're trying to excise from your platform can use to jerk you around in the court of public opinion. I have no trouble understanding why they would not want to use it.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Shouldn't they come out and say propaganda campaigns. Because the denotation of propaganda is broad and includes virtually all effort at persuasion, plus it has vague but strong negative connotation, so it's often used for “persuasion effort that I don't like”. “Coordinated inauthentic behavior” has a much clearer and more specific meaning and less emotive loading, so the information-to-emotional-manipulation ratio is better.