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"With its athletes barred from competing in the Summer Olympics under the
country’s flag, Russia has turned its fury on the Games and this year’s host,
Paris.
Russian propagandists have created an hourlong documentary, spoofed news
reports and even mimicked French and American intelligence agencies to issue
fake warnings urging people to avoid the Games, according to a report released
on Sunday by Microsoft.
The report details the disinformation campaign created by a group the company
calls Storm-1679. The campaign appears to have accelerated since March,
flooding social media with short videos raising alarms about possible terrorist
attacks and stoking fears about safety.
The operation, while aimed at the Games, is using various techniques to spread
disinformation that could also be employed in European and U.S. elections.
American and French officials have tracked the campaign. One American official
said that Russian disinformation, spread by the Kremlin via social media,
continued to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.
The group has also tried to goad fact checkers into examining its claims,
hoping to use the attention to spread the disinformation to new audiences as it
is called out."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 34 Issue 29:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/29#subj11
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
