disinformation
Global Spectator, by Andrés Ortega Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds
It’s nothing new. Much indeed was known or suspected: specifically, that by using data from social media it is possible to send and personalise messages –true and otherwise– to reach many millions of individual users (who, even if pseudonymous, are real) or groups of them. Using Facebook data this [...]
27/3/2018
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Global Spectator, by Andrés Ortega Democracies on the back foot
Democracies are on the defence. In its recent National Security Strategy, the Trump Administration –advocating ‘a return to a principled realism’– fails to mention promoting democracy and human rights beyond US borders, although it does refer to ‘our community of like-minded-democratic states’. The EU has its own democracy problems [...]
13/3/2018
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Global Spectator, by Andrés Ortega Disinformation campaigns: the weakness caused by mistrust
We are not in a military conflict, nor even a cold war, but there is a profusion of so-called disinformation wars. Fake news –stories that are purposely fabricated– and its dissemination is part of this. The new Spanish Security Strategy identifies online ‘influence and disinformation’ activities as a new [...]
5/12/2017
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Global Spectator, by Andrés Ortega Social media in China: the regime is more concerned about what people do than what they say
The Internet is essential to a country like China, riding high on the great wave of technology. But it gives the regime the headache of control. Apart from its Great Firewall, the Chinese state runs an elaborate system of censorship and manipulation of social media. It has just proved [...]
17/10/2017
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Global Spectator, by Andrés Ortega (Dis)information warfare
A rumour has been going round on social media lately concerning the rape of a teenager near the place in Lithuania where 1,000 or so NATO troops under German command are stationed. The fake news item –which the allies and the Lithuanian government once again attribute to a Russia [...]
21/3/2017
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