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The article has diverse undertones of overthinking. Looks like someone who has not lived in a conflict zone found a neat opportunity to do self-promotion. No on

The article has diverse undertones of overthinking. Looks like someone who has not lived in a conflict zone found a neat opportunity to do self-promotion. No one fighting off an invasion has time/energy to listen to anyone's smug opinions on Twitter. They voiced their needs, those wishes were granted. They said thank you to the benefactors. Let's hope it goes as smooth as possible! This kind of posts are gonna come up a lot, wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war.

StanislavPetrov 5y ago
>wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war. If you filtered out unproven information about an ongoing war there would be virtually no information available at all. The Fog of War is a real thing and very little that comes out of an active war zone can be confirmed, which is why its always advisable to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism no matter what you are hearing.
heavyset_go 5y ago
The author is a senior researcher at CitizenLab and is the author of this[1] case study for USNWC titled "Revolutionary Risks: Cyber Technology and Threats in the 2011 Libyan Revolution". They also posted plenty of evidence of radio transmissions being targeted in war. He also has tomes of interesting research published in this field[2]. [1] https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1012&context=ciwag-case-studies https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refere... [2] https://www.johnscottrailton.com/comms-research/ https://www.johnscottrailton.com/comms-research/
rvz 5y ago
Given the number of over-night armchair field marshals appearing all over Twitter sharing their strategic plans and opinions with captain obvious, I wonder if there was anyone who foresaw the US Afghanistan withdrawal disaster being an enabler of this whole war unfolding. > This kind of posts are gonna come up a lot, wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war. You might need to filter out the majority of social media since that is infested with 'disinformation' and misleading posts and since lots of users get their news from social media, they are easily tricked and manipulated even from these sources which get shared and spread faster than they can get 'verified'. First these 'sources' said that these Russian forces were 'slowing down', and now it turns out that less than a day later the are already in Kyiv and have taken another city. It seems that it is better to wait and use multiple direct sources beyond social media, rather than to completely rely on mainstream media, since they can also can get manipulated via their own sources which the majority are from social media.

StanislavPetrov 5y ago

>wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war. If you filtered out unproven information about an ongoing war there would be virtually no information available at all. The Fog of War is a real thing and very little that comes out of an active war zone can be confirmed, which is why its always advisable to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism no matter what you are hearing.

heavyset_go 5y ago

The author is a senior researcher at CitizenLab and is the author of this[1] case study for USNWC titled "Revolutionary Risks: Cyber Technology and Threats in the 2011 Libyan Revolution". They also posted plenty of evidence of radio transmissions being targeted in war. He also has tomes of interesting research published in this field[2]. [1] https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1012&context=ciwag-case-studies https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refere... [2] https://www.johnscottrailton.com/comms-research/ https://www.johnscottrailton.com/comms-research/

rvz 5y ago

Given the number of over-night armchair field marshals appearing all over Twitter sharing their strategic plans and opinions with captain obvious, I wonder if there was anyone who foresaw the US Afghanistan withdrawal disaster being an enabler of this whole war unfolding. > This kind of posts are gonna come up a lot, wish there was a way to filter or circle out stuff that waists attention or spreads unproven information about an ongoing war. You might need to filter out the majority of social media since that is infested with 'disinformation' and misleading posts and since lots of users get their news from social media, they are easily tricked and manipulated even from these sources which get shared and spread faster than they can get 'verified'. First these 'sources' said that these Russian forces were 'slowing down', and now it turns out that less than a day later the are already in Kyiv and have taken another city. It seems that it is better to wait and use multiple direct sources beyond social media, rather than to completely rely on mainstream media, since they can also can get manipulated via their own sources which the majority are from social media.