Ministry of Truth?

[Dill]

(05-11-2022, 10:57 AM)hollodero Wrote: I have to somewhat disagree with this.
Russian influence campaigns reached 126 million people on facebook alone. This, imho, is an unprecedented scale. Everything Russia does to influence other countries is. I'm from Europe, and Russian influence is or at least was everywhere. They give tons of money to right-wing parties like Le Pen or our own Freedom parety and plenty others all over the continent, they at times flood our message boards, and nope it never was like that in the past, not even close.

Darn it. Hollo beat me to the punch on that one.  

I was thinking of "Citizen Genet," defying Washington and diplomatic protocol to get Americans to enter the Republican France's then war with Britain, Spain and Prussia. 

He was not only attempting to persuade lawmakers to this end, but actually raised a militia and ships in the Carolinas, threatening and end run around Washington's resolution NOT to take sides.

So yeah, that foreign interference has always been there. Hollo has explained how technology has massively changed the scale, reach, and effectiveness though. 

And as I mentioned earlier, social media allows Russia and whomever closely observes our culture to mimic and amplify homegrown
disinformation (and the right information) to the degree it can sway elections to the foreign entity's preference, not to mention sow divisions which
make the country ungovernable. 

So that is a security threat.