Disinformation
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But such policies would not stop those who share
disinformation
for political or social reasons.
Third, how is the
disinformation
being shared?
Yet digital platforms cannot manage
disinformation
alone, not least because, by some estimates, social media account for only around 40% of traffic to the most egregious “fake news” sites, with the other 60% arriving “organically” or via “dark social” (such as messaging or emails between friends).
The final – and perhaps the most important – dimension of the
disinformation
puzzle is: what is being shared?
Many of the most worrisome examples of
disinformation
have been focused not on any particular election or candidate, but instead on exploiting societal divisions along, say, racial lines.
If the solutions to
disinformation
are unclear in the US, the situation is even thornier in the international context, where the problem is even more decentralized and opaque – another reason why no overarching, comprehensive solution is possible.
Beyond sanctions, the EU and the United States must become much more proactive and efficient in combating the massive
disinformation
campaign that has become a potent weapon in the Kremlin’s “hybrid war” against Russia’s neighbors and the West.
A countermovement against such
disinformation
is long past due.
The erosion of civics education in schools, the shuttering of local newspapers – and the consequent decline in the public’s understanding of issues and the political process – conspire to create fertile ground for the sowing of
disinformation.
High school or university courses by themselves will not keep gullible voters from falling for bogus news or inflammatory
disinformation.
As usual, the Kremlin is attempting to avoid accountability by spewing
disinformation
and claiming that the West is persecuting Russia.
With everything from massive
disinformation
to tanks and soldiers thrown against the Eastern Partnership since 2013, just staying the course is a powerful sign of success.
Today’s Russian
disinformation
campaigns, part of the Kremlin’s hybrid war against Western democracies, seem to have much in common with the infamous Zinoviev letter.
Populist parties once confined to the political fringe did not win nearly half the vote in Italy’s recent election because of Russian
disinformation
campaigns.
Moreover, confusion about environmental cancer risks also results from longstanding, carefully cultivated, and well-financed
disinformation
campaigns inspired by the machinations of the tobacco industry.
Consumers are provided with precious little information through schools, libraries, or health campaigns; instead, they are swamped with
disinformation
through advertising.
Beyond disinformation, producers have few incentives to internalize the costs of the environmental damage that they cause.
Their supporters in the media have spewed a stream of
disinformation
and leaked wiretaps to discredit and embarrass the accused.
This, along with media disinformation, has made it difficult for outsiders to penetrate the cases and separate fact from fiction.
But, like the polonium attack a decade ago, the first-time use of a sophisticated nerve agent, Novichok, did not go undetected, and the Kremlin is now resorting to a crude arsenal of lies and
disinformation
to try to hide its tracks.
Russia’s Hybrid War Against the WestBRUSSELS – The United States FBI and CIA have both concluded that Russia ran a hacking and
disinformation
campaign aimed at influencing the US presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon – a former executive chairman of the American “alt-right”
disinformation
website Breitbart News – has openly offered to help Le Pen win the French presidential election next spring.
In the EU, thousands of fake-news websites have appeared, many of them with unclear ownership: the number of
disinformation
websites in Hungary doubled in 2014; and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, some 42 new websites are now polluting the EU’s information ecosystem.
Russia’s
disinformation
campaigns are complex and multifaceted, but the mission they share is to undermine trust in Western democratic authorities.
To defend against this onslaught, the West should promote media freedom, reward accountability, and provide legal avenues to shut down systemic
disinformation
channels.
It bodes well that the EU recently amended its 2017 budget to reinforce the European External Action Service’s StratCom team, which had been badly underfunded, despite its critical mission of uncovering and debunking
disinformation.
The result has been to encourage liars to clog the system with
disinformation
and false leads while discouraging honest people from reporting what they observe, lest an innocent neighbor be incarcerated on the basis of misperceptions.
Unfortunately, such
disinformation
is hardly a recipe for generating reform.
Before communism collapsed in 1989, Colonel Putin, also memorably gray, was a devoted KGB operative, entrusted with spreading
disinformation
and recruiting Soviet and foreign agents in East Germany.
What is new is not the basic model, but the high speed and low cost of spreading
disinformation.
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