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infowar
noun
Information warfare
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Hables Gray points out that, in the recent past, infowar has been associated with "the wildly unrealistic claim that real war would be fought in cyberspace".
"The real focus of infowar practices remains the international public, not the military enemy, who, relying less on computers and networks than the US and Nato do, is actually almost always less threatened by attacks on them".
But the idea of infowar was developed in response to the rise of "an international civil society" that used networks to organise against the established powers that be.
Since September 11 2001, and the declaration of a war on terror, we've been living through a kind of low-level infowar.
"But other networks will also be part of an all-out infowar," Der Derian says.
"A pod of mercs and an infotech goon pwnd everything using some zeroday they'd bought from scumbag default infowar researchers" is the sort of thing they say.
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He believes the US government was highly involved in 9/11 and wrote the book Order Out of Chaos, which was published by InfoWars.
InfoWars collects a list of the Clinton body count, with dozens of names – from lawyers to criminals – of people who have died and are in some way connected to the Clintons.
InfoWars has been pushing the "Clinton is sick" theory hard in the last few weeks – with stories including "EXPERTS: HILLARY IS A SOCIOPATH AND COULD HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE" and "HILLARY HEALTH COVER-UP IMPLODES".
Jerad and Amanda Miller also frequently posted links to InfoWars to their Facebook pages.
InfoWars, a rightwing website known to peddle conspiracies and fake news, has already declared that the partnership with Snopes "clearly opens the door for the outright censorship of conservative content and opinion".
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