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The most fascinating part is the Russian angle for both of these hacks. Hacking media is hacking democracy. It's intriguing to see a deeply undemocratic regimes
by vonnik 12y ago
The most fascinating part is the Russian angle for both of these hacks. Hacking media is hacking democracy. It's intriguing to see a deeply undemocratic regimes trying to do that in the US.
- soperj 12y agoReally there's an easier way, embrace capitalism and just buy the media.
- xnull6guest 12y agoI've posted this before and there are a large number of other examples, but the United States also engages in this activity against its targets [1][2]. (The US has been known to target democracies as well.) In addition there has been a number of studies and campaigns on Americans inside the US during elections linked to the DoD and to political parties [3][4]. This isn't to say that this behavior is justifiable because the US also does it - or that the US is evil for doing it. It's important to know that this is how 21st century propaganda works and also that all powers, including those with myths of 'liberty', participate. [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 [3] http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/massive_turnout.pdf http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/massive_turnout.pdf [4] http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/computer-scientist-warns-of-social-media-manipulation-in-us-election?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+IeeeSpectrumFullText+(IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text) http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/computer-scientist...