A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation.
  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    Called it.

    Nation state/PsyOps loooove to sow additional chaos in times of breaking news w/ minimal details. Especially when they can push on buttons that are already of sore subject.

    Ask questions. Find sources. Be fair and reasonable. Get out there and get involved with your community as well. Know who your neighbors are and what they’re about.

    Above all else: do not let anyone bully you out of being objective and being educated/informed. Be brave. Be kind.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    As protests at universities across the country—and the responses to them by college authorities and law enforcement—continue to stoke division and anger, the Kremlin appears to have taken a page from its foreign influence playbook, using its disinformation infrastructure in collaboration with state-run media and Telegram influencers in an effort to further divide American society.

    That’s not how “taking a page” works. You can’t “take a page” from your own book. The term refers to imitating what someone else has as their own practice.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_a_leaf_out_of_someone's_book#English

    (idiomatic) To adopt an idea or practice of another person.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    The site looks identical to the real Washington Post website, except for the fact that it uses a small variation of the real URL

    It should be possible to mitigate this sort of attack via some technical methods, like having something that visually indicates in a browser some metric of “prominence” that a given domain has.

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      I see a bit of mass histeria, hive-like drone behaviour, and mass psy-ops all at once. So yes, It makes makes me wonder. maybe …? idk… something’s up? ^^

      “A Russian influence campaign seems to be attempting to sow division in the US around the college campus protests. As protests at universities across the country—and the responses to them by college authorities and law enforcement—continue to stoke division and anger, the Kremlin appears to have taken a page from its foreign influence playbook, using its disinformation infrastructure in collaboration with state-run media and Telegram influencers in an effort to further divide American society.”