Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
by alexpetralia on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:06PM
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#dcBlackout was trending on Twitter last night. How do you explain that? There were _tons_ of accounts I saw (many with Korean/Chinese avatars, which were probably fronts) that were spreading the same misinformation, often were a shrill tone of panic and conspiracy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-dc-blackout-pro...
For the curious, this is called a Sybil attack.
Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
by thrwaway69 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:05AM
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Boi the replies.
https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1267521033273323520...
https://twitter.com/VictoriaSanchez/status/12674378765198622...
I am wondering if all those are bots or propaganda accounts. A sufficiently trained GPT2 model could tweet the same.
Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
by mr_spothawk on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:44AM
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was thinking maybe it was content targetted at a non-us audience. could see deploying bots in open disinfo op, tho.
Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
by thebean11 on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:15PM
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Like I said, I'm not arguing that the foreign misinformation campaigns don't exist. I'm just skeptical that the protests and riots wouldn't be happening regardless.
Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”
by ngold on Monday June 01, 2020 @06:49PM
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If there is unrest it is easy to stoke from anywhere. You have Marx living in london, lenin hanging out in germany.
The point is. An under served population can be insighted with ideas from anywhere. But the root cause is still there in that community.
I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree Russia does run campaigns with the purpose of sowing tensions, but I'm very skeptical of any causality between Russia and the movement, protests, or riots.