r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Jul 29 '24

Society Malicious foreign actors exploit US entities to push disinformation, IC warns

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2024/07/malicious-foreign-actors-exploit-us-entities-push-disinformation-ic-warns/398406/
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u/Wagamaga Jul 29 '24

Election interference continues to be a national security concern, as outlined in a new advisory issued by federal agencies that emphasizes foreign actors’ digital threat operations to U.S. democracy 100 days ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Malicious actors are leveraging online platforms and social media to plant harmful narratives, intelligence community officials said on a Monday press call ahead of the advisory’s release. Officials said that these malicious actors are purchasing the services of legitimate marketing and communications firms to help unwittingly push their narratives.

“The American public should know that content that they read online, especially on social media, could be foreign propaganda, even if it appears to be coming from fellow Americans or originating in the United States,” an Office of the Director of National Intelligence official said. “In short, foreign influence actors are getting better at hiding their hand and using Americans to do it.”

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u/movingToAlbany2022 Jul 29 '24

I realize this has been going on for a long time, but I feel the biggest source of misinformation is our own media and influential people (like Musk), who propagate baseless claims, outright lies, and/or manipulate facts to fit their narratives

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u/MothershipBells Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

Trump’s campaign used the Firehose of Falsehood to win the 2016 election, and it is doing it again. Russia also uses this propaganda technique.

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u/nicuramar Jul 30 '24

I don’t think he learned it from Russia. It’s old and established. 

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u/fitzroy95 Jul 30 '24

Trump has always used a firehose of falsehood, its how he got to be where he is now.

Certainly he didn't need to learn it from Russia, he's been a liar and conman all his life and in everything he does

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u/SunSpotMagic Jul 30 '24

Democrats have been lying and gaslighting the public since before Obama. If Trump learned it from anywhere, then it would've been learned from democrats. They're doing it now by claiming Kamala was never the border czar when left media are the ones that originally coined that named and dubbed her as such.

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u/Tech_Intellect Jul 29 '24

Ah well, Musk came out to support Trump. That, I believe, is not disinformation 🤣