Disinformation
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Today, the Bush administration is engaged in a
disinformation
campaign about an impending social security crisis.
Years ago, a tobacco executive unwisely committed to paper the perfect slogan for his industry’s
disinformation
campaign: “Doubt is our product.”
Even in areas where there does seem to be some consensus – such as the unacceptability of
disinformation
or of foreign meddling in electoral processes – there is no agreement on the appropriate remedy.
No policymaker, whatever their position on abortion, should stand by while “their country’s laws are being circumvented through disinformation, emotional manipulation, and outright deceit specifically targeting pregnant women.”
Disinformation
is rife on the BJP’s groups, including concocted accounts of what leading Congress politicians (including me) have said and photoshopped images portraying traitorous behavior by opposition leaders.
The danger, therefore, is that many votes will be cast on the basis of
disinformation.
To be sure, in April, the US Department of State warned that Russia, along with China and Iran, was stepping up its
disinformation
efforts in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
But, as governments enact sweeping emergency measures, including to combat
disinformation
and trace the contacts of infected people, the crisis has also created a serious threat to digital freedom.
In a campaign dominated by personal smears and disinformation, not one substantive issue was debated seriously.
In addition, opportunities to spread
disinformation
have increased.
The DSA, for its part, will impose more onerous obligations on Big Tech companies to disclose their algorithms or remove illegal or harmful online content, including hate speech and
disinformation.
We must also invest in rebuilding trust in our democratic institutions, including our voting system, while working with partners around the world to counter democratic backsliding and fight the spread of
disinformation.
Facebook, for example, censors duplicitous posts and has created an election “war room” to fight
disinformation.
There is no silver bullet to combat
disinformation.
Only multi-stakeholder approaches that spread responsibility across the news ecosystem and take into account the fundamental rights involved, can provide adequate defenses against
disinformation.
Well-intentioned efforts to scrub the new public square of
disinformation
will certainly backfire; only consumers can marginalize fake news.
In the maw of lies and
disinformation
that has defined the Brexit debate, the opportunities implied by this provision of the exit agreement have barely been discussed.
And on February 18, a British parliamentary committee published a report that sharply criticized Facebook and other large tech companies for failing to counter the spread of
disinformation
and “fake news.”
The EU’s East StratCom Task Force is working to counter Russian and other
disinformation
campaigns.
Otherwise, our collective future will belong to an alliance of dark money, disinformation, and the sort of division that robbed our country of its most prominent journalist.
Since the crisis erupted, the EU has shown more of a willingness to push back against Chinese
disinformation
campaigns, and has adopted measures to protect distressed European companies from being bought out by Chinese investors.
Second, the Trump administration claims that disguised Chinese government entities are spreading
disinformation
on WeChat, in which case a ban would curtail Beijing’s ability to transmit propaganda.
As for the claim about disinformation, there are two points to consider.
Sadly, far too many people who have encountered such
disinformation
online have shared it with their friends and family.
The
disinformation
outlets tend to produce less content than independent, professional news outlets do, but they can attract as much as ten times the effective engagement with the material they turn out.
The good news is that we now know where the
disinformation
is coming from.
But under Xi, spreading disinformation, exercising economic leverage, flexing military muscle, and running targeted influence operations have become China’s favorite tools for getting its way.
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said that the agency doesn’t alter votes or spread disinformation, but does influence foreign media outlets to “change attitudes within the country.”
Electoral interference can take many forms, including vote-changing, disinformation, doxing, propaganda, and financial support.
As China’s actions in the South China Sea demonstrate, Xi prefers asymmetrical or hybrid warfare, which combines conventional and irregular tactics with psychological and media manipulation, disinformation, lawfare, and coercive diplomacy.
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