How will China overtake Russia in online manipulation?
"Trust But Verify" - A new post on a new medium
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The pandemic has embedded and summer has begun. Good news and good weather, and from the Selected Wisdom team we hope everyone is doing better in June of 2021 than they were in June of 2020.
A few months back, Selected Wisdom began experimenting with a new medium - video - as a way to produce our posts for those that prefer to watch rather than read. We’ve experimented with some different topics familiar to our readers and we’ve just loaded our fifth on our YouTube channel - “Trust But Verify”. In the coming months and year, we’ll begin posting more video content there as companion discussions to the topics we write about here at Substack. If interested in the companion films to our regular articles, please check out our channel here and subscribe for automatic updates when we post.
Today’s video offers a short explanation on the evolution of online manipulation, something I’ve written about in years past, but may be easier understood in discussion form. In short, we spend a lot of time talking about Russian online manipulation. While it’s true that the Kremlin invented the concept of disinformation and have mastered its application in both the analog and digital eras, their ‘art’ will be over taken by China’s ‘science’. In short, the Chinese have taken online manipulation into a fifth generation that will pose a much bigger threat to Western democracies and society as a whole. For readers, check out “5 Generations Of Online Manipulation”, and for today’s video visit “Trust But Verify” and
“5 Generations Of Online Manipulation - China Will Be The Biggest Adversary In Online Manipulation”
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For other breakdowns, here’s a quick summary of “Trust But Verify” videos.
Maybe you saw a mob become an insurrection on Capitol Hill on January 6th. Now, you might be wondering if we should worry about extremists overtaking the United States or a second civil war.
It’s now common knowledge that Russia has an interest in influencing the American information space, interfering in our elections, and otherwise sowing chaos in our country. But how exactly do they try to accomplish this?
You might have heard about U.S. sanctions on Russian-intelligence connected news outlets in April 2021. Here, Rose explains how the Kremlin cut-out NewsFront works its way around social media bans to still reach millions of people on Facebook.
In this episode of Trust But Verify, Max explores how an obscure website called "Corona24News" helped launder a COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy originating from an outlet in Eastern Ukraine. This obscure website is part of a larger network of websites translating and republishing huge volumes of content from around the web—including disinformation about American vaccines that benefits the Kremlin's strategic narratives.
The video is excellent, thank you Clint. The corruption of humanity and impotence of America is particularly poignant and ironic on this anniversary of D-Day.