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"When wildfires swept across Maui last month with destructive fury, China’s
increasingly resourceful information warriors pounced.
The disaster was not natural, they said in a flurry of false posts that spread
across the internet, but was the result of a secret “weather weapon” being
tested by the United States. To bolster the plausibility, the posts carried
photographs that appeared to have been generated by artificial intelligence
programs, making them among the first to use these new tools to bolster the
aura of authenticity of a disinformation campaign.
For China — which largely stood on the sidelines of the 2016 and 2020 U.S.
presidential elections while Russia ran hacking operations and disinformation
campaigns — the effort to cast the wildfires as a deliberate act by American
intelligence agencies and the military was a rapid change of tactics."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
