The Biden Administration Needs a Fresh Approach to Huawei and 5G

November 13, 2020 china, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Foreign Policy
The Biden Administration Needs a Fresh Approach to Huawei and 5G

China’s growing clout in 5G telecommunications and other digital technologies, much of it achieved through unfair competition, presents many risks to democracies, including espionage and the spread of disinformation. But the penetration of Western markets by companies that are instruments of an …

Tired of coronavirus conspiracy theories in your Facebook feed? So was Elissa — so she did something about it

COVID-19

November 12, 2020 antivax, big tech, russia

Archived 6 years ago from ABC News
Tired of coronavirus conspiracy theories in your Facebook feed? So was Elissa — so she did something about it

When the coronavirus pandemic first became serious back in March, Elissa McKay started noticing more and more troubling social media posts appearing in her feed. “It ran the entire spectrum from it [COVID] is no worse than the flu, all the way up to it has been planned, this is a hoax, it doesn’t …

Colorado’s Congressional Republicans Stay Quiet As President Keeps Up Unsupported Election Fraud Claims

Elections

November 10, 2020 russia

Archived 6 years ago from Colorado Public Radio
Colorado’s Congressional Republicans Stay Quiet As President Keeps Up Unsupported Election Fraud Claims

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said none of what is happening now is “unusual.” “Until the Electoral College votes, anyone who’s running for office can exhaust concerns about counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction,” McConnell said. “At some point here we’ll …

COVID-19

November 10, 2020 antivax, russia

Archived 6 years ago from DIGIT.FYI
British cyber-spies targeted spread of Covid-19 propaganda

British spies are on a mission to halt the spread of misinformation surrounding Covid-19 as the country edges closer to a vaccine release. According to The Times, an operation led by GCHQ aims to ‘disrupt’ anti-vaccine disinformation on social media and other sites by hostile states. The …

COVID-19

November 10, 2020 antivax, russia

Archived 6 years ago from DIGIT.FYI
Covid-19 vaccine propaganda spread under attack by British cyber-spies

Conspiracy

November 9, 2020 deep state, israel, mkultra, qanon, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Daily Nebraskan
FINAN: Conspiracy theories are an American tradition | Opinion

Conspiracy theories have always had a place in American history. The earliest notable instance of widespread conspiracy was the Salem witch trials. The leading and most compelling theory for what happened is ergot, a type of fungus found in grains that produces an LSD-like effect. It is believed …

Public Health Agencies must burst the vaccine misinformation bubble on social media

COVID-19

November 9, 2020 antivax, big tech, russia

Archived 6 years ago from The London School of Economics and Political Science
Public Health Agencies must burst the vaccine misinformation bubble on social media

‘To vaccinate, or not to vaccinate’ is a debate that has captured the imagination of social media users as the COVID-19 virus stays resilient. With the plethora of misinformation travelling through the Internet daily, it is paramount that the public health agencies utilize the reach of the social …

As global anti-vax movements gain ground, growing number of Russians worry about taking any form of coronavirus vaccine

COVID-19

November 4, 2020 antivax, russia

Archived 6 years ago from The DHT News
As global anti-vax movements gain ground, growing number of Russians worry about taking any form of coronavirus vaccine

Russian scientists made global headlines in August when they unveiled Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved anywhere in the world. But as its roll-out nears, health officials face growing vaccine skepticism. New polling from Moscow’s Levada Center this week shows that as many as six …

QAnon

November 2, 2020 big tech, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Reuters
QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show

By Joseph Menn 4 Min Read (Reuters) – Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives and archives of tweets from suspended accounts. FILE PHOTO: …

QAnon

October 31, 2020 deep state, marjorie taylor greene, russia

Archived 6 years ago from Business Insider
QAnon-linked super PAC boosts like-minded GOP House candidates

A new super PAC run by operatives in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s orbit and funded by her lawyer is running ads for four like-minded House Republican candidates during the final days of the 2020 campaign. The Stop Socialism Now PAC is run by Georgia operatives with ties to Greene, President Trump and …

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