Misinformation
The United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee issued a report that cited the policy of concealing the ethnicity of a suspect led to race riots after “false claims” an illegal immigrant stabbed three children to death spread online in lieu of any clarification from the police.
The report stated the policy “created an information vacuum that allowed disinformation to flourish.” The Report unwittingly told on its own impractical policies derived from “Woke” presuppositions; Concealing truth, even denying it, for social justice reasons, is not only ok, it’s required.
UK report says outdated laws hampered fight against misinformation during anti-immigrant violence – CityNews Halifax
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Outdated laws unfit for the social media age hampered police from countering false claims that helped fuel anti-immigrant violence in Britain last summer, an investigation by lawmakers said Monday.
Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee said limits on disclosing details of criminal investigations “created an information vacuum that allowed disinformation to flourish” after three children were stabbed to death at a summer dance party in July….
DOD ‘Social Engineering’ Program Created Phony Online Accounts– thefederalist.com
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The Department of Defense funded a “large scale social deception” program, according to public spending disclosures. The Federalist has uncovered documents showing how the federal government used “social engineering” programs to develop networks of fraudulent social media accounts capable of violating Americans’ rights to speech and privacy online — and, potentially, psychological warfare.
The DOD awarded more than $9.1 million for Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) for “ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE… LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION” starting in 2018, according to government funding disclosures. Of the total amount promised, the federal government reportedly paid — or “outlayed” — more than $268,000 for the project.
TRSS is a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, which owns the leftist media outlet Reuters. According to the company’s website, it offers “scalable solutions to governments and global institutions,” and its leadership “leverages real-world experience in the US Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, law enforcement and the private sector.” The Air Force awarded the contract, and the DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — the military’s shady research branch — funded the work in “large scale social deception.”
U.S. adversaries know misinformation is easy, cheap way to undermine democracy – MSNBC
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