Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned via its social tools.
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. 'Leave' voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the U.K., according to new research.
Though, given that a chronological timeline remains not the default on Twitter, with algorithmically surfaced 'interesting tweets' instead being most actively pushed at users, it seems unlikely this change will have a major impact on mitigating any disinformation campaigns.
And, yes, staffers from Facebook, Google and Twitter are listed as members — so the major social media tech platforms and disinformation spreaders are directly involved in shaping these recommendations.
Officials said that the site, www.lifeandliberty.gov, was aimed at "dispelling some of the major myths perpetuated as part of the disinformation campaign" by critics of the act.
In recent years, disinformation has risen and was a major factor in the meddling during the 2016 presidential election.
In China, the birthplace of the Great Firewall, the major online control strategy isn't censorship, it's disinformation: the Chinese politburo employs a vast cadre of trolls who rubbish anyone who talks about things the government dislikes, discrediting them and muddying the waters.
"The Signatories recognise and agree with the Commission's conclusions that "the exposure of citizens to large scale Disinformation, including misleading or outright false information, is a major challenge for Europe.
The plan involved major camouflage activity, Operation Bertram, radio deception, Operation Canwell and a disinformation campaign, Operation Treatment.
Over the past few months, it's been hard to discern whether Trump's campaign is a series of disasters and happy accidents or a disinformation drive carefully mapped by a team of semiotics majors.
