Democracies flying blind in fake news fight
Western democracies remain structurally blind to the influence campaigns being waged against them from authoritarian nations like China and Russia.
Chris is a foreign desk news editor.
Western democracies remain structurally blind to the influence campaigns being waged against them from authoritarian nations like China and Russia.
How you see the Nordic country says a lot about where you sit in the spectrum of propaganda seeping into global news.
Unlike state-sponsored hacking, this war is visible in real time and for the world to see. You yourself may be one of the fighters.
The West invented social media. But Russia figured out how best to turn it into a weapon for use against Western democratic institutions.
What do social media companies offer the media, especially in terms of all-important political reporting? Maybe nothing at all.
The memos contain extensive details of efforts by Russia's intelligence community, directed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, to sway the outcome of the US election.
The goals were "to undermine public faith in the US democratic process" and to "denigrate" Hillary Clinton.
The election of Donald Trump broke new ground in the way information has been used and abused, presenting a historic challenge to the media.
WikiLeaks has blocked me on Twitter and I want to know why. After all, the organisation bills itself as pro-transparency.
The timing of the hack and the target suggest that this could be a form of retaliation for the Russian hacking of US election.
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