Oxford based study on internet propaganda and disinformation.

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Oxford based study on internet propaganda and disinformation.

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:59 am

Since 2016 we have monitored the activity of "cyber troops",
which we define as government or political party actors tasked
with manipulating public opinion online (Bradshaw & Howard,
2017). Over the past four years, we have examined the formal
organization of cyber troops around the world, and how these
actors use computational propaganda for political purposes.
This has involved building an inventory of the evolving strategies,
tools, and techniques of computational propaganda, such
as the use of "political bots" to amplify hate speech or other
forms of manipulated content, the illegal harvesting of data
or micro-targeting, or deploying armies of "trolls" to suppress
political activism or freedom of the press. We have also tracked
the capacity and resources invested into developing these
techniques to build a picture of cyber troop capabilities around
the world.
Well worth a read, albeit a longish one. Requires some arithmetic but has plenty of pretty pictures and colours for the 3 Amigos...

https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content ... NALv.3.pdf
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#2 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:09 am

Mrs PN seems a sucker for some of this misinformation in particular concerning Sussex and China if you get my drift.
I guess she is not alone here.
Must admit I miss Slashers presence as he gave us an information feed from Asia. Fox3 from Canada I miss for the same reason.

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#3 Post by Wodrick » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:26 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:09 am
Must admit I miss Slashers presence as he gave us an information feed from Asia. Fox3 from Canada I miss for the same reason.
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#4 Post by probes » Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:31 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:09 am

Must admit I miss Slashers presence as he gave us an information feed from Asia. Fox3 from Canada I miss for the same reason.
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#5 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:58 pm

Same here.

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#6 Post by bob2s » Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:28 am

plus 1

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#7 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:38 am

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#8 Post by EA01 » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:21 am

Yeah whatever happened to Fox?

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#9 Post by Bob » Fri Jan 15, 2021 1:03 pm

They were recruited
I hereby declare the U.S.A. a Pariah state.
All U.S. Citizens or persons arriving from the U.S.A. will be denied access

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