Congrat. American is less safe because of you. Well done. DHS Suspends Its New Disinformation Board, Following Criticism - The New York Times (nytimes.com) The creation of the panel, called the Disinformation Governance Board, set off a firestorm of criticism when it was announced last month. While the criticism came from across the political spectrum, including civil liberty groups, the fiercest denunciations came from the right. Republican leaders and commentators talked about it as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that would police people’s speech. That was never the board’s mandate, a department spokesman said in a written statement. Instead, it was meant to coordinate the department’s various agencies in the fight against malicious disinformation by foreign adversaries, drug or human traffickers or other international crime groups. Only weeks after its inception, however, its fate is now in doubt. Nina Jankowicz, an authority on disinformation who was chosen in the spring to lead the board, submitted her resignation on Wednesday after facing vitriolic and highly personal harassment and abuse online. ..
The idea of fighting disinformation by foreign adversaries started during the cold war. The idea of the DHS specifically fighting "against malicious disinformation by foreign adversaries, drug or human traffickers or other international crime groups." started during the Trump year. Politics make it a Biden thing when it's a DHS thing from years ago. Americans want this commonsense stuff. But Americans are pretty easily fooled by media and politicians.
a) It's not common sense b) I see little evidence that the majority of Americans want this hence c) your post is disinformation
This lady just needs to shut the **** up and go away forever https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...erified-twitter-users-should-edit-tweets/amp/
I think this idea was inherently problematic but the government still can and does counter disinformation regularly. While disinformation is a problem I think this solution wasn't handled well.
that UFO hearing was no information What a waste of time Disinformation is everything lazy people want to hear and not try to gather for themselves
People are hopelessly naive if they think disinformation warfare isn’t a serious problem and governments should maintain a “hands off” approach. Government agencies should be monitoring for organized disinformation campaigns that are aimed at disrupting or damaging our democratic institutions and/or radicalizing violent extremists. More fundamentally, technology that enables and encourages rapid viral spread of unvetted information at large scale — whether by bots or via engagement-optimized algorithms — needs to be regulated.
You guys are most egregious pushers and promoters of misinformation in the world today, not to mention in the USA. These sorts of government imposed "disinformation" management regimes are truly Orwellian. That is not an exaggeration. There is nothing virtuous about either the people advocating these sorts of regimes, or the agendas being promoted. You are not the solution to the problem of organized political propaganda and deceit in our society. You people are the main source of it. The best way to vet ideas that are misguided and wrong, whether intentionally or unintentionally, is by free speech and more information. Anyone who tries to control information and to dictate what people are allowed to think and say are not honest people and they certainly are not champions of truth, justice, liberty, virtue or human decency. And that is as applicable to you people as it is to anyone else. Your peculiar tribe is not exempt or above any of these realities, regardless of whether you realize that or accept it, or not.
Head in the sand, right here. The best way to vet ideas is to vet them. The best way to prevent the spread of bad ideas is to design platforms that encourages people to actually engage in an honest way with different POVs in common goal of finding the truth. Not to optimize platforms for mindless engagement and tribalism, which is exactly what how today's platforms are designed.
