“Portal Kombat” also targets Germany and Poland

France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe::undefined

  • realitista@lemmy.worldEnglish
    752·
    9 months ago

    Uncovering these rings, publicizing them, and shutting them down needs to be a top priority. I think a lot, if not most, of the bad decisions made by voters stem from these kind of bad actors. We’ve let it go on for long enough.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Not only voters, also politicians. Everyone can be influenced, even those in power :)

  • cygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    9 months ago

    I’m expecting a really nasty autumn this year. A big chunk of Russia’s campaign against Europe is held up by Ukraine and they badly need a stooge US president again.

    Musk also opened Twitter’s doors wide for state-sponsored manipulation and agitation campaigns. All protections are offline and the teams are gone, under the guise of free speech.

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      To add: Twitter under Musk also complies with all government censorship requests since Musk took over. News on Twitter has been hugely influential in the past in protests in authoritarian states, but that’s clearly a thing of the past now.

      Full compliance with government censorship was 83% in may last year, up from the 50% it was before Musk.

      And partial + full compliance was at 98.8%, up from 92% before Musk. And the remaining 1.2% were not denied, just status unknown, so it’s basically 100%.

      https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfilling-more-government-censorship-requests-under-musk

      I wonder what the current numbers are and how the full/partial takedowns are geographically distributed. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if partial compliance was limited to some western countries and it’s full compliance everywhere else.

      Elon Musk, the self declared “free speech absolutist”, what a shithead.

  • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Without paywall. (Initially posted the same link, but then I noticed their comment. Leaving mine up since theirs doesn’t explicitly say what the link is)

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      It’s a great pun, but I hate how good an English pun it is, especially for the operation. It suggests that these guys aren’t hacks, and have enough language and culture skills to blend in. The recent “warm water ports” gaffe comes to mind.

      Also, intelligence agencies don’t use cute code names for things like this since it makes it easier to work out the operation scope or intent. To me, this also says that the operation is “at arm’s length” and the name was coined by non-government folks. Think: information age mercenaries.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        intelligence agencies don’t use cute code names for things like this since it makes it easier to work out the operation scope or intent

        It’s kind of amusing that during WWII Germany had a penchant for choosing meaningful code names for some of their secret programs, names that actually gave important information to the Allies. Knickebein and Wotan were noteworthy examples, names given to German electronic bomber navigation systems.

  • acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    9 months ago

    Reason number %large_number% + 1 why support for Ukraine cannot falter. Russia cannot win its offensive there and continue to spread its poison across the world.

  • recapitated@lemmy.worldEnglish
    145·
    9 months ago

    Why even fund uncovering these. Just build your systems with this as a consideration. If it’s not Russia it will be someone else.

  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    I really prefer the Israeli and the USA disinformation campaigns /s

    Fucking neoliberals… decades of neoliberal economic policy, imperialism and media conglomeration allowed this fertile ground in the first place.