Many people may hear the word astrourfing and assume I'm talking about the stiff, unforgiving sports field that absolutely roasts you the second it gets above 80°. You know the one where the rubber pellets or dirt gets in your socks and is just really annoying or the stiff underlay the cement or rock wrecks your joints and you feel incredibly sore afterward. Oxford reference actually defines astrourfing as promoting a product, service, or idea by seeking to create the false impression that it enjoys widespr ...

Germany accuses Russia of 2024 cyber- attack and disinformation https://t.co/RKuamO5Url ...

RT Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari)The purpose of the TTC was to establish areas of agreement between the EU and US on digital policy.It established several working groups to achieve this aim.One of them, Working Group 5, aimed to develop a shared approach to fight "harmful content" and "disinformation." https://t.co/z0bFHfU2Vb ...

The EU isn’t fighting “disinformation” — they’re terrified of dissent.Censor speech today, ban parties tomorrow, import millions who don’t share your values, then jail you for noticing.Keep cheering the Digital Services Act while your freedoms get quietly deleted.This isn’t “protecting democracy.”This is how continents die.Europe will be lost in a generation if the censorship train isn’t derailed — NOW.Wake up or watch your civilization get memory-holed.Elon Musk (@elonmusk):The EU should be abolished and s ...

The content moderation law is the Digital Service Act. And this is one of these sort of sort of solitary packages that European put in place to regulate the technology sector. This one became live in August 2023, and this probe was launched close to two years ago in December 2023.And really what the European Commission was looking at was sort of in the build up to some European parliamentary elections, whether there was this information that was being spread across Twitter now. What this fine actually asses ...

Hybrid Threats & Cooperation - European defense ministers pledged increased cooperation to counter hybrid threats [1] - Hybrid threats include drones, cyberattacks, and disinformation [1] - Disruptions from unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming a near-daily occurrence in Europe [1]

https://t.co/FCAMNh5VqtMario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal):🇪🇺 EUROPE BUILDS A “DEMOCRACY SHIELD” - DIGITAL IRON DOME FOR (WHAT THEY CALL) TRUTHThe EU just went full cyber-paladin.Brussels unveiled its “European Democracy Shield”, a continent-wide defense grid designed to block disinformation, foreign meddling, and information warfare https://t.co/3e4CIM49Mh ...

Mrs. Von der Leyen, Tear Down This WallVisegrád 24 (@visegrad24):The European Commission today launched the European Democracy Shield.It’s presented as a project to protect EU democracies from disinformation, foreign interference & information manipulation. Key elements include securing the information space, strengthening elections & media https://t.co/sPGwplh7in ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@emilyjashinsky Speaking of platforming, why are you reposting a guy with only 423 followers whose post is full of obvious disinformation about American history and America First? ...

RT Martin De Luca (@emd_worldwide)On October 21, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) formally established a new crime of “disinformation.”As explained by the editorial board of a leading newspaper in Brazil, @Estadao, by criminalizing “the propagation of lies,” the STF bypassed Congress (again) and violated the principle of legality — that no one can be punished for a crime not defined by law.World-famous censor-in-chief Alexandre de Moraes, having learned nothing from U.S. sanctions, warned that “all who insist o ...