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Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat (cnn.com)
According to CNN, the Czech Republic is setting up a new counter-terrorism unit to combat the rise of fake news or "foreign disinformation campaigns." The counter-terrorism unit is called "The Center Against Terrorism and Hybrid Threats," and is due to start operating on Sunday, according to an interior ministry statement. CNN reports: The new center is intended to monitor internal security threats, including attacks on soft targets and extremism, as well as "disinformation campaigns related to internal security." Its establishment follows the publication in September of a Czech intelligence service report that identified Russian disinformation and cyber-espionage activities as a potential threat to the Czech Republic, European Union and NATO. The Czech Republic is due to hold a general election next year. According to the Czech Security Information Service (BIS) annual report, Russia in 2015 used "influence and information operations" to try to manipulate public opinion in the Czech Republic in relation to Syria and Ukraine. Russia is involved in conflicts in both these countries. Russia's hybrid warfare operations included "weakening the strength of Czech media" through "covert infiltration of Czech media and the Internet, massive production of Russian propaganda and disinformation controlled by the state," the report said. Other Russian operations included founding puppet organizations, the "covert and open support of populist or extremist subjects," and "disrupting the coherence and readiness of NATO and the EU," the report claimed. "The above-mentioned activities pose a threat to the Czech Republic, EU and NATO not only in relation to the Ukrainian and Syrian conflicts. "The infrastructure created for achieving these goals will not disappear with the end of the two conflicts. It can be used to destabilize or manipulate Czech society or political environment at any time, if Russia wishes to do so." According to the Czech interior ministry, its new unit won't be interrogating anyone, censoring online content or bringing legal proceedings, nor will it "have a button for 'switching off the internet.'" But it will monitor threats, inform the public about "serious cases of disinformation" and promote internal security expertise.
We can't have citizens exposed to dangerous untruths. They might begin to form dangerous, unsanctioned beliefs.
Geez, this "fake news" paranoia is off-the-rails crazy.
Awwww, did ums poor widdle babies have your harpy lose last month?
my fake news is your job
Your link is a plainly-labeled opinion piece, which itself points to other opinion pieces and claims they are fake news.
Opinion pieces are not news, fake or otherwise. Try again.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
While there was plenty of dirty pool to go around in the Democratic primary fake news was non existent. I was knee deep in politics and the 'Fake News' sited in that article didn't register with me. And I waited in line two hours to vote Bernie.
Bernie also lost because we let a ruling elite decide our politicians (google the phrase "Sheldon Primary" sometime). That had more to do with it than just about anything. And don't forget, the Democrats have a lot of economic right wingers who are just social liberals. Bernie didn't fly well with them. Honestly I don't think Bernie would have won the primary for just that reason. Which makes all the Dirty Pool even stupider. It was completely unnecessary.
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[Russia tries] to manipulate public opinion in the Czech Republic in relation to Syria and Ukraine
So basically the problem is that Russia is pushing its own war propaganda against government's own. Fake news is likely to be on both sides.
lots and lots of page views. Worse, Fake News only really works with the worst sort. Either people who aren't all there (Alzheimer's, which given aging populations is a real problem) or folks who never learned critical thinking (which, despite what the right ring will tell you, is a skill that can be taught. That's what all those English Classes are for).
The worst thing is you can't even harness Fake News for good. The sort of person who's on the ball enough to do good isn't going to fall for Fake News. Where the sort of person who is just needs a little push in the right direction to do something nasty. That's why you don't see left wing Fake News very much. The ones selling it (not good natured lefties but folks in the page views biz) admitted as much when asked in several interviews. Lefty Fake News gets debunked too fast to spread like good Fake News needs to...
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Why was my post modded down, but APK's wasn't?
Because I'm out of mod points.
Often the truth isn't even hidden.
Let's look at the recent and ongoing illegal immigration disaster unfolding in Europe.
A lot of the time the news reports include photos or video footage that contradicts what is claimed in the associated written or spoken report.
We'll see reports that discuss how most are supposedly Syrian refugees, but the photos and footage will show large numbers of Sub-Saharan Africans.
We'll see reports that discuss how most of them are supposedly women and children, but the photos and footage will show large numbers of young, fighting-age men, with almost no women and children to be seen.
We'll see reports that talk about how peaceful and law-abiding these people supposedly are, but the photos and footage show them attacking lorries in Calais, or fighting with border officials in Greece, or sneaking into Europe illegally, or committing yet another violent attack against European civilians.
Just looking at and analyzing the pictures and video footage, and ignoring what's written or said in the associated report, will give a more accurate depiction of what's actually going on.
...of a "fake news" story provably fabricated and spread by Russians to try to get Trump elected that:
(choose at least one)
1) Got traction in the mainstream media and had a measurable influence on public opinion.
2) Was mentioned at all in the mainstream media
3) Was spread widely on respectable conservative websites (Breitbart, Daily Caller, etc.), leading already-committed Trump voters to be slightly more overwhelmingly likely to turn out to vote
4) Was mentioned at all on respectable conservative websites
5) Was mentioned at all on the less-respectable conservative websites (Infowars, Truepundit, etc.) that a few of the more conspiracy-minded still take sort-of seriously.
6) Existed at all in any measurable form.
And no, wikileaks doesn't count. The emails were 100%, provably real, and in any case wikileaks swears up and down its source wasn't the Russians.
Like allegedly backing hackers who retrieved and released true e-nails from Democrats. You heard it here first, folks, the Democrats are calling inconvenient truths obtained through unsanctioned means, "fake news." The real truth is they've been doing this for years and only just came up with the newspeak "fake news" groupthink moniker.
It should be quite alarming that a state would issue such policies. I also realize that this is the agenda here in the US. Unfortunately, censoring media, including fake news, is constitutionally protected. I do realize there is an arm of MSM and the masses of Sheeple who disagree. I'll be happy to point out that while certain candidates, like Obama, have gotten a free pass initiating the groundwork for censorship, these same policies should and have already sounded the alarm when the wrong regime takes office (Trump). What is good for the goose is good for the gander right? Or perhaps we can cut the left/right hypocritical bullshit. If the policies are dangerous under any regime, they are just dangerous all together and the People should stand up and prevent these policies from being implemented.
Now we are going to trun that camera and beat the truth out of you.
Or this is fake news as well?
No, they're fighting against both sides. Their own sock puppets even fight amongst themselves. They don't have any vested interest in either party winning, just in ensuring maximum collateral damage to both parties during the struggle.
In Russia they call anyone they dislike a fascist. Any government that disagrees with Putin is a fascist, any government that wants to align with the west is fascist, any nation that allied with Nazis over fear of USSR invasions is called fascist. It is sort of the equivalent of Americans calling people they don't like, socialists. Because Russia had such a rough time of it after the USSR breakup (despite that being a good thing on the whole) they tend to lean back on winning in WWII as a point of personal pride. We have dimwitted people in the US saying "you'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us!" and so similarly the dimwitted people in Russia will accuse othesr who are opposed to Russian government policies as nazi or fascist.
This fake news stuff is getting boring. Let's start a conspiracy theory instead: the CIA splashed a Russian military plane in retaliation for helping Wikileaks expose Clinton and the rest of the Democrats as people you wouldn't trust to walk your dog.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/28/europe/russian-military-plane-crash/index.html
for people with a higher baseline intelligence. In other worlds the sort of people who would have learned to think Critically on their own. For the less capable reading and analyzing texts in a classroom setting is how they learn. And believe me, you want those people to learn critical thinking. Otherwise they'll be lead by the nose to the slaughter house, and you'll get roped in with them.
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I mean, it's a troll, and a bad one, but you could at least try a little harder. "critical of white cis-hetero men"? I can't tell if you're attacking or supporting feminism. In either case I got none of that in my English class. I had one class built around that sorta thing and it was mostly there to give me exposure to other cultures/ideas in the hopes that any lingering racism I might have picked up from my folks I might disabuse myself of (how's that for Intellectual Snobbery, I used the phrase "disabused of". Hope I used it correctly...).
And I litterally have no idea what you're last comment is about. Again, please try harder. If you're gonna troll me I need to understand the trolling well enough to respond. C-, see me after class.
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There's lots of bad to say about Monsanto. GMOs make a lot of people nervous because we don't fully understand them; and by 'we' I mean all of us. It's not like we've got a 100% perfect grasp on genetic engineering. Still most progressives when pressed will admit that it's the only solution to feed our population. Sure, we've got nutters who'll disagree, but they're our nutters and we recognize them as such.
As a progressive (and a Democratic Socialist who waited in line 3 hours to vote Bernie) I'm nervous about Nuclear. Fukushima isn't exactly a glowing recommendation (it glowed, I suppose). The trouble with nuclear is that sooner or later some asshat "Job Creator" is going to take over the plant with promises of all the money privatization will save and cut maintenance and safety. Which is exactly what happened in Japan. Until Nuclear plants are cheaper to run and maintain safely than not or until American embraces government regulation I'll stick with Natural Gas fired plants and as much wind/solar as I can get.
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"According to CNN" it the current version of "according to Pravda" from the days of the Soviet Union.
... Fox News.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Except that the Wikileaks emails were DKIM validated and CNN lied about it repeatedly, both with claims it was fake or altered somehow (no examples were ever provided) and claims it was somehow illegal to look at if you're not in the media (it's not). Bonus points: the same lawyer has also been seen on CNN completely unable to do simple math when trying to divide a lottery amount among everyone in the USA.
Then they started full on with Russian hacking BS to get people to look the other way. They have yet to present any kind of proof, either to the public or to Congress. All the "news" articles quote unnamed high level sources who give not even one single verifiable fact.
Oh, but there was that firm the DNC hired. They said they had malware that they thought was of Russian origin, that someone used a server in the Russian IP space (err, why would the Kremlin do that again?), they also hacked some other government target (independent hackers /never/ do that!) and that they used some RATs ... which are widely available on Russian underground forums (and I don't believe they've responded to that one).
So... yeah, we have a bunch of anonymous sources and someone claimed to geo-IP an IP address back to Russia once. Because no one has ever staged attacks from hacked servers in other countries, they've never used VPNs, and they always use their real info when hacking you. They'd *never* leave false leads when hacking. Never. It's clearly as real as the phishing email that claimed Podesta was being hacked by the Ukraine. Oh wait, any random kiddie could've sent that one.
If you think I'm kidding, just read the Russian hack articles. They'll all reference past articles (usually on the same site), anonymous highly placed sources, the 17 agencies of ODNI (the Coast Guard & friends, where two political appointees wrote a memo saying this is totally something Russia would like to maybe do), and nothing whatsoever of actual substance. They hardly ever link to primary sources, not even the ODNI statement.
The title is also part of the tag line. Ie fox NEWS. Its not news, but they sure pretend it is, and its not anywhere near 4 hours a day, its at best 20 minutes a session with three sessions a day or 1 out of 24.
Fox "news" is one of the most succesfull propaganda campaigns in history and the purveyours of fake news have copied the model and abandoned trying to be subtle. The fairness doctrine needs to be re-established for broadcast television and truth in advertising enforced by the FTC with severe financial penalties for fraud.
Finally a strategy to deal with untruth news.
Doubleplusgood comrades!
"Blah blah blah." - [citation needed]
"According to CNN" it the current version of "according to Pravda" from the days of the Soviet Union.
Oh, puh-leeze. I'm not sure what's worse -- that you could make a false equivalence of CNN with Pravda, or that someone modded you insightful.
CNN is not state-run, and it is not beholden to government censors.
And while we're on the subject, there are several healthy democracies that have state-funded media that does not hold back its criticisms of the government. The CBC in Canada and the BBC in the UK are two examples.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
You don't know a thing about Russia, and so you also don't understand why Russians associate nationalism to fascism (WWII, to give you a hint, when 26 million Soviet people - russians, jews, ucrainians, lithuanians, kazachs, uzbecks, and others - died to defeat nazism; this is a tentative figure).
Newsflash: we actually know those numbers you speak off. We just don't see the logical connective between that and calling everything as fascist or nazi (because there really isn't one.)
I've been following news non stop. Read the Washington Post, watch the Daily Show, Sam Bee, John Oliver and Cobert Report. That's kinda my point. Lefty fake news doesn't work. Lefties just don't fall for it the way righties do. There's a quote from one of the Fake News sellers where he admitted that the stuff just gets debunked before it can go viral...
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Fake news? That could never happen here.