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Information Warfare
A mosaic view of the info-battleground: information for anti-informative goals. Intentionally useless errors, diplomatic speech, Chinese censorship, spam campaign, stock market arbitrage, continental philosophy, etc.
“Upon receiving the disinformation, local collaborators help disseminate and echo the message, in order to destabilize Taiwanese public sentiment and society.” … In December, a YouTube account called “Eat Rice, No War” put out a deepfake video alleging Lai had three mistresses, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice. I suspect the increasingly opaque error messages used by websites are not due to incompetence, or a mistaken attempt at being user-friendly, but a design choice, a deliberate defense in their escalating information warfare against spammers. Marczak, Bill, Nicholas Weaver, Jakub Dalek, Roya Ensafi, David Fifield, Sarah McKune, Arn Rey, John Scott-Railton, Ron Deibert, and Vern Paxson.
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