Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X
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Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts

The German foreign ministry, which commissioned the study after suspecting it was being targeted by bots, said the findings highlighted the need for governments to systematically tackle the growing number of disinformation campaigns and recognise the effect they could have on elections.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, it’s a major disadvantage for countries with more freedom. Some obvious steps would be public information campaigns and working with and regulating social media companies.

    But those aren’t easy solutions, especially since the Kremlin has an asset running for US president trying to divide the country and weaken it’s support for other democracies.

    • sqgl@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Or improving funding of the schooling system so that we can figure it out ourselves. Here in Australia we are embarrassingly over funding sport rather then education. I imagine USA is similar.

      We deserve to have our stupidity exploited by the enemy. I kind of admire their strategy.

        • sqgl@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          That mentality is what got us into this mess. Democratic governments don’t plan beyond the election cycle.

          Also, kids influence their parents.

          In the meantime Australia could also invest in the national broadcaster to educate adults regarding history and critical thinking. Instead it has been gutted by defunding. Informative radio shows used to have transcripts available etc

          • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Ok.

            How do we stop republicunts form their 40 year quest to destroy public education when we can’t convince half the nation that Jan6 was even a bad thing?

            Using the power of ignorant and loud constituents, propaganda, media manipulation and Reagan’s 1st commandment (thou shalt not speak ill of other republicunts) they have made their actions immune to scrutiny and have the political clout to get their bad actors on or leading every educational government org.

            And that’s not even SCRATCHING the surface of how many school boards have republicunts on them that both do not have school age children and have zero vested interest in improving school systems. How do you even fight back on that now?

            No, the only way we will manage to get back to a reasonable 1st world education system is if magically every shitheel that voted for trump was thanos snapped away.

    • Truck_kun@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I don’t want to promote ‘state media’ per se, as that is often an abused form of ‘information and news’, but maybe we do need an official public distribution of warnings for current foreign lies and propaganda campaigns.

      Possibly require social media, and typical sources of such propaganda campaigns to display a banner with warnings of recent things that are being spread and not true.

      Sadly also a thing that could be abused, but we do need new tools in our toolbox.