"Unfortunately citizens of Moldova are targets of a campaign of disinformation without precedents.
Man in the Middle attacks are a highly-sophisticated deception which allows a third party to intervene in an electronic conversation and pretend to be each of the other two parties, obtaining valuable information or spreading disinformation without the targets realising.
Facebook has once again eschewed a direct request from the UK parliament for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify to a committee investigating online disinformation — without rustling up so much as a fig-leaf-sized excuse to explain why the founder of one of the world's most used technology platforms can't squeeze a video call into his busy schedule and spare UK politicians' blushes.
I feel I want to give them their pride back, but without the arrogance, and without the cold war disinformation.
Perhaps Goldman hoped that, by portraying the Russians' machinations as nonpartisan, he could appear to take the problem of online disinformation seriously without offending Trump's supporters.
The process is by no means perfect, but it is our responsibility to grade it as objectively as possible, to become critics without hate, and to remove disinformation and lies from the debate.
One theory, officials said, is that officials were trying to use Ms. Leung to pass disinformation back to her native China without realizing that she had access through her affair with Mr. Smith to very sensitive material.
It provides people free mobile phone access without data charges, but is also responsible for the spread disinformation and propaganda.
From the authorities' viewpoint, it is hard to see how counterterrorism agencies can move against covert extremism without adopting covert tactics of their own: wiretaps and tails, informers and infiltrators, disinformation and deceit — the gamut of tradecraft developed to deal with the Irish Republican Army or foreign spies in the Cold War, now updated for the Internet era.
This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents that the press routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the fossil fuel industry.
