Showing posts with label disinformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disinformation. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Here is one way to deliver information

Here is one way to deliver information

1. Power makes paranoid

When we are talking about dictators, they are all somehow paranoid. And if the family members are mentioned in the secret messages of foreign intelligence would be decrypted, that thing might mean there is a possibility to use them as the carrier of the hoax information. In those cases, the code-key for the messages can send to the foreign operators in purpose.

That means the information, what is in the messages can be made for denigrating the opposite side important people. And in the best cases, the opposite side would make the dirty job themselves. In the war of information, every kind of tricks is allowed, because war is a dirty game. Also, police and other law enforcement offices are using this kind of things to suppress the actions of criminals.

2. Disinformation is an effective tool to handle criminals

They might leak the names of the faked informants, who are actually the gang members, and that would cause very serious discussions in the criminal organizations. Also, the western military personnel uses disinformation and trolls to disturb Russian intelligence operations.

In those information and psychological operations the surveillance tapes, what are recorded by using laser microphones are introduced, that somebody has slipped the bug eavesdrop equipment in the room. The modern eavesdropping equipment is a very complicated thing because they are able to fly inside the house independently. Those machines can look like bugs, and when they are slipped in they would turn to passive mode.

3. Modern recon robots could be very stealth 

That means the robot will record the speech and even take the film in the room, and when it will take command it will send the records to the satellite by using the bursts. The small-size intelligence robots might also have the ability to read things, what the person writes on the computer screen and follow things, what is going on in the room. If that equipment uses plutonium batteries, it can operate even years in some house r area.

The mission is to make the intelligence operators believe, that the rooms were not safe. And also military intelligence can use records, what is acted by actors, if the data, what has been used is taken from some decrypted message.

That means somebody has been spoken recklessly. And they can also imply, that some businessmen, who operate with opposite intelligence are also taking money from the western military intelligence. If that kind of things is true, there is a possibility, that the eavesdropping equipment has been installed even in the president's personal working room.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Social media and the changing role of journalists

Social media and the changing role of journalists

In the point of view of journalists, social media has made their work easier, but otherwise, it has been removed the glory from the reporter's work. In old good times, reporters must move themselves to the place, where something has happened, and wait for the press conference. And after that, they spent their night at the hotel.

This is the thing, what made the work of the reporter so interesting. Today the reporter must just open Twitter, and then that person sees, what some leaders have to tell people, and this is the thing, what makes journalism of today different. Also, normal people can see themselves, what some president has to say, and this is bad for newspapers.

The thing is that in the past the journalists were filtered the information, what was sent to people, and the thing is that the news agencies like Reuters and Tass were in the key role of the business of information sharing. If some journalist made people in the news agencies angry, that could mean that there were no call to press conferences. And this was an excuse for the censorship.

The thing was that both sides must be heard in every case, and if something made somebody angry, that meant that the neutrality of the information was disturbing. Modern social media has brought in front of the people another reality, and that is that many people read things, what they want to read. This is a selective way to use sources. We all make this thing and leave the things, what are supporting our own interest or opinion without notice. But when we are looking at people like journalists, we must remember that they are humans too.

Some propagandists are not governmental 

There is no way to be the absolute neutral while we are writing something or handling data. If we would have political or some other attitudes for some case, we would automatically see things, as we want to see them. And this is the thing, what we must realize. If we are thinking about the political attitudes of the reporters, we must realize, that they also have political and cultural emotions. This means that also so-called professional journalists would have written stories, what is more, or less against the things, what really happened.

Here I must say that the press is a good tool for lobbying things. When we are thinking about the cases, where some reporter has faced the attempts to influence the things, what that inmate has been written, we can remember the cases, where the MC-clubs like Hell's Angels have offered the meal for the reporters, that they would give nicely image to those persons, who are driving with motorbikes with the logo of the club on the back of the vests. That kind of things was really good advertisements for those clubs, and the reporters have faced many times another kind of attempts to influence the information, what they are sharing.

One version is the expensive car, what some "firms" are offered the reporter for the working tool. The car has always been marked that it has been used some director, and the kilometers would be marked after the use. Another version is the free parking permission in the expensive parking houses. Or sometimes some actors of the cases has been offered a good five-star hotel for free, which means that the hotel room has been paid by some company, what is asking some permissions, and sometimes the texts, what the journalists have published have come straight from the public affairs section of the company. In those cases, the reporters have been highlighted the benefits of some action.

And of course, in the war, the propaganda is the very usual tool. When we are thinking about propaganda, one mark of it is that the things, what are published are supporting another side, and another side has only bad things. This is one very good point of view of the information.

Let's think one thing. We are the journalists who are operating in the middle of the crisis. And then the government official brings us to the place, where have been happened the war crime. Then that person would give the governmental and official information about that thing, what might be something like killing children. Would we dare to write anything else to our boss, if we are surrounded by the local militia, what is telling the stories about the war crimes?

And what if that information would be given in the press conference, and the information officer would say, that he has taken us to the place, what is not true. But the men with assault rifles in that room would be real. Then we would write something, and the government official wants to check that information, what we are sending. Then we would go to our motherland, and tell that story to our boss or editor, who tells that the sell of the newspaper has risen.

Disinformation is not a new thing. 

Would that person write to the newspaper, that the situation, where the information was given, was somehow different than the reporter claims? Or would the reporter dare to tell the editor that thing? This is a very good point when we are analyzing the disinformation, and another name of the disinformation is propaganda. When we are looking at the information, what is shared in the press conferences, we must remember that the information, what is shared must be accepted by the keepers of the conference.

And especially in the case of the crisis, the press conferences share only the information, what is serving another side. And that's why we should take the purpose of all of the so-called press conferences more or less propagandist. We should know that all shared data of those press conferences are "cleaned". That means that they share only information, which supports their own benefit.

When we are thinking about social media, we are facing the situation, that the shared data is very one-sided. And the thing what makes this data more one-sided than before is that we are choosing people, who have similar opinions with us to our social media network. This makes social media really good tool for propaganda and other ways there is a massive number of non-relevant information, what means information, what has nothing to do with the thing, what we are looking for. And this is the reason, why we must have to use critics when we are looking for information from the Internet.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

The search engine optimization makes the disinformation more effective

The search engine optimization makes the disinformation more effective

The vital thing is that somebody will click the homepages

The key element of the homepages and marketing is to get people to click those pages. Without clicks, nobody sees the information what is written in those homepages, and that's why the place of that homepage in the search results is very important. People would normally click to the homepage, what is straight in the first or second line in the search results, and almost everybody ever even looks at the next pages of the search results or roll the page lower to see more results, what they can compile together.

When we are talking about propaganda pages, we must realize that the type of information is the same every time. It doesn't matter is we would market the merchandise or politicians or some kind of propaganda pages, the method of getting clicks is always the same. Disinformation operation uses the same kind of methods with normal marketing, and the thing is that people must get to look at the homepages, and information channels, what are made for this operation. If nobody clicks the homepages, what are made by disinformation team, that kind of project means nothing.

So  in those cases, the group, what uses disinformation must select the words, what brings the homepages upper in the hierarchy of the search results, and the most important thing is to use the words, what is not seen for making the fishing algorithm, or how people would call the words, what are made for the rising the result of the search. This method is very important because people must go to the web site and read it if the disinformation would want to get the effect.

And this thing would artificial intelligence be a very effective tool because it can make the databases about the words, what are used in the top results. If we would think about Brexit, and the profiling the electors, the system allowed to create the speeches, what were the most effective precise in the certain electoral circle, and when we are thinking about the speeches, what politicians made, there were claims that sometimes those candidates kept the same speeches.

But the things, what those people promised were in the different order, that the candidate could keep the best speeches to their own electors. And then the speeches, where the permissions were given were the most effective because of the permissions, what were meant for that certain area electors were first.

Cambridge analytics seems the very trustable company

When we are thinking about the company named Cambridge analytics, what acquired the shared the information, what was necessary for the success of the operation, we must say one thing. The Cambridge analytics brought to the publicity, that the same methods, what is used for increasing the interest for marketing products can use also used as the marketing tools for politicians. Same way as the marketing company increases the clicks to the marketing pages of the supermarkets or web stores it can increase clicks to the homepages of the politicians.

The name of that company would bring in the mind the very high-standard academical actor, what has the right background. The city of Cambridge is always connected to the University of Cambridge. So maybe somebody thought that the Cambridge analytics has connections to that famous university because there was no remark of this kind of marketing company use in the election campaign, what was conducted to Brexit.

Six clicks separate people from each other.

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