The PRC is infiltrating social media to sway popular opinion. Time to avoid getting news and info from mainstream media, including Facebook and Twitter/X.
https://cyberscoop.com/meta-china-influence-operation-facebook/
#news #infosec #China #USA #disinformation #socialmedia #election2024
@MHS_Jenkins funny thing about that is Xitter is blocked in the PRC. They don't want it used against them.
@MHS_Jenkins FWIW, I've been getting a resurgence of ads from Epoch Times, which is a Chinese backed organization, I understand. They're very pro-Trump for some reason.
@janallmac The PRC's goal in all of this is to create dissent, distrust, and division. I'm not sure they care which party actually wins beyond that.
@MHS_Jenkins
You mean, same ol same ol?
@Say_what_now Yep! Plus ca change . . .
@MHS_Jenkins . I consider anything positive a out China, russia or repubs propagamda.
@TR_forester6291 That's probably a safe assumption.
@MHS_Jenkins Thank god it's a lot harder for them to do that here:
@SunAcrossWater I'm not going to accuse mainstream media of being immune to this kind of tampering; sabotaging professional journalism is a time-honored disinformation tactic. I'm encouraging folks to be critical of all information as we move through the Attention Age.
@MHS_Jenkins: I reckon that's news to some folks. Between the Chinese, the Soviets, and Israel, not to mention others since at least the 1990s and accelerating with the mid-2000s boom of social media, it's old news for some. That's over and above the general commercial and industrial PR steering of the news.