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Social Media unfortunately is a new favorite propaganda playground for nation states, both to cause instability and revolution in enemy nations (e.g. the USAID
by xnull6guest 12y ago
Social Media unfortunately is a new favorite propaganda playground for nation states, both to cause instability and revolution in enemy nations (e.g. the USAID attempt in Cuba [1]), to push their narrative in another country (e.g. US use of Twitter to try to deradicalize Muslims [2]), and to cause confusion to disrupt the narratives of others.
What can be done about this? This article is the first step: preliminary fingerprinting of the low hanging fruit.
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-to-undermine-cuban-government-with-fake-twitter-another-anti-castro-failure/2014/04/03/c0142cc0-bb75-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-t...
[2] http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf