Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:40AM
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How is that a response to
> Foreign intelligence services are certainly doing a lot of crap online but it's not clear whether they've actually accomplished anything.
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Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by rini17 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:15AM
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If they actually accomplished nothing, then why Russia keeps doing it? It seriously damages their international relations, and it's all for nothing?
Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by nradov on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:38AM
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Most of our own CIA's efforts have resulted in abject failure. They failed to properly predict or influence most of the major world events for decades now (disintegration of the USSR, Balkan wars, 9/11 attacks, increased authoritarianism in China, rise of ISIL, collapse of Afghan government, etc). And yet we keep increasing their funding. Well maybe if we give them another billion they'll eventually get it right?
Government resource allocation is seldom based on a rational cost / benefit analysis.
Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:49AM
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How would you measure accomplishment? It works for the same reason that advertising works.
Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by OrvalWintermute on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:32AM
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We're supposed to believe that these tiny FB campaigns are actually outcompeting the tsunami of "buy this junk" ads, and the actual political misinformation campaigns put out by the Uniparty?
> Throughout the election cycle, Russia's online influence actors sought to affect US public perceptions of the candidates, as well as advance Moscow's long-standing goals of undermining confidence in US election processes and increasing sociopolitical divisions among the American people.
The confidence undermining was all a local issue; Russia had nothing to do with it.
> A key element of Moscow's strategy this election cycle was its use of proxies linked to Russian intelligence to push influence narratives- including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against president Biden- to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration.
> Throughout the election cycle, Russia's online influence actors sought to affect US public perceptions of the candidates, as well as advance Moscow's long-standing goals of undermining confidence in US election processes and increasing sociopolitical divisions among the American people.