Quote:
Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
The west is so far behind on utilizing disinformation as a weapon, it's not even funny. Stuck behind the old fart mentality that unless it's tanks rolling across the border or bombs dropping on western cities, you aren't at war.
Meanwhile russia and other authoritarian leaders realize that there's no need to win a shooting war when you can have a bunch of neckbeards tapping away on keyboards and having their targets destroy themselves from within with a bunch of coordinated posts and disinformation campaigns. It's disgusting how far behind we are on even comprehending what is happening and even more disgusting the complete lack of defending against it.
There should swarms of western-bots, bidenbots, whatever-bots doing the exact same thing those countries do to us, on significantly larger scales, punishing them for every campaign they send our way. With a successful recent campaign to get Trump back in power, Romania seems to be the next victim with the potentially next president a nutjob rightwing tiktok star that came out of nowhere, yet is already being traced back to russian disinformation campaigns.
So many missed opportunities to issue payback to those parties, who laugh at us for wasting money on thousands of tanks that sit in storage and never get used, in which we're too scared to send enmasse to the country doing the dirty work for us. The Ukrainians seem to understand this and actually fight back with government-organized hackers, but it's not enough. There should be coordinated western government-sponsored hackers doing the exact same thing back to the russians.
|
The west has utilized these strategies forever. Not shooting back isn't the problem, and shooting back only escalates the problem as information warfare is really kind of a bioweapon, it doesn't really respect borders and problems created have a tendency to circulate.
What we need is to get serious about defense and making better social media platforms, and forcing social media platforms to become better.
Taiwan has also achieved a lot by actually educating its population. (They're obviouslu a huge target for Chinese propaganda.)
I highly recommend the podcast "Your Undivided Attention" and specifically their episode "Future Proofing your democracy in the age of AI" from last February.