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Anonymous ID: c388f1 Aug. 22, 2023, 11:35 a.m. No.19406529   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Canada #45 >>19303685

 

iVerify UN unveils sinister new tool for combatting misinformation aka The Truth

Ethan Huff NaturalNews.com Aug 5, 2023

 

To more effectively crack down on "misinformation," the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has quietly rolled out a new automated anti-"disinformation" censorship tool called iVerify that the UN says will "provide national actors with a support package to enhance identification, monitoring and response capacity to threats to information integrity."

 

Originally unveiled to support "election integrity," iVerify was designed around a multi-stakeholder approach that spans both the public and private sector. In essence, iVerify can be used by both the government and corporations to take control of all speech on the internet and regulate what people are allowed to say.

 

In short, iVerify utilizes a team of local "highly-trained" fact checkers whose job it is to determine if "an article is true or not." iVerify also uses machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (X) for "toxic" content, which when identified is sent to "verification" teams of fact checkers to evaluate.

 

There exists both automated and human-facilitated elements of iVerify, depending on the situation or content being reviewed. The goal is to make it as simple and streamlined as possible for the censors to capture "misinformation" and stamp it out quickly and easily.

 

(Related: California recently tried to pass a covid "misinformation" law that was shot down by the courts as being unconstitutional.)

Information must be censored to protect "citizens' capacity to make informed decisions," UNDP says

 

On the UNDP website, a blunt case is made for iVerify to be used as a weapon against "information pollution," which is described as being harmful and in "overabundance" at the current time.

 

Any information that the UNDP deems to inhibit "citizens' capacity to make informed decisions" is targeted by iVerify with urgency because the UNDP claims that "misinformation, disinformation and hate speech threaten peace and security, disproportionately affecting those who are already vulnerable."

 

So-called "fact checking," which you may well know, is an entire industry that has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years. It is funded by the likes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), as well as the CIA-proxy National Endowment for Democracy (NED)-funded StopFake and internet trust rating systems like NewsGuard.

 

NewsGuard, as we previously reported, is partnered with Microsoft and the U.S. Departments of Defense and State. It appears as an internet browser module to provide green check marks for "approved" content and red check marks for "disapproved" content.

 

NewsGuard and the other aforementioned platforms paved the way for the eventual unveiling of iVerify, which is now a global "fact checking" endeavor being spearheaded by one of the most powerful globalist entities in the world: the UN.

 

This is why writer Michael Shellenberger now refers to all of this as a "censorship industrial complex," as it has grown to such a massive size that there is almost no way to escape it on today's most widely used social media platforms and web browsers.

 

According to the UNDP website, "iVerify will only be deployed following an in-depth assessment to ensure the solution provided to a specific country will not be misused in ways that would undermine freedom of expression, freedom of the press or political and social rights."

 

To those not in the know, the iVerify system will appear as though it were a reputable source but to those in the know, it will be obvious that the system is designed to silence the truth while pretending to check for "facts."

 

Soon it will be a "crime" to spread what the government deems as "misinformation."

 

https://www.truth11.com/untitled-1200/

Anonymous ID: c388f1 Aug. 22, 2023, 1:44 p.m. No.19407211   🗄️.is 🔗kun

General Research #23833 >>19406790

 

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

With smartphones, editing apps, and innovative approaches, some UN peacekeeping operations across the world are building a “digital army” aimed at combating mis- and disinformation on social media networks and beyond.

 

Designing ways to fight back against falsehoods that can trigger tensions, violence, or even death, the UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

“It has become clear that business as usual is not an option,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a policy brief launched in June on information integrity on digital platforms.

 

“The ability to disseminate large-scale disinformation to undermine scientifically established facts poses an existential risk to humanity and endangers democratic institutions and fundamental human rights,” he wrote in the brief.

 

Disinformation can be dangerous in other ways. Several UN missions have reported social media campaigns in recent years targeting their peacekeeping work.

 

In 2019, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), known by its French acronym MONUSCO, raised grave concerns about social media disinformation campaigns calling for violence against peacekeepers during an Ebola epidemic and following a deadly attack by an armed group in the restive eastern region.

 

By 2022, the Security Council had adjusted the mandates of its four largest peacekeeping operations -- DRC, Central African Republic (CAR), Mali, and South Sudan – and added the task of preventing disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining a mission’s credibility

 

“This is a war that is going on through social media, the radio, and traditional news outlets,” said Bintou Keita, who heads MONUSCO. Fighting deadly disinformation has been a “painful curve” to learn of this new battlefield, but the mission has now become proactive on social and other media platforms, to help stop its spread, she added.

 

To fight back against disinformation, UN peacekeepers are putting new tools into the hands of civilians of all ages, including 15-year-old Blessing Kasasi in DRC.

 

An activist advocating for the rights of women and children, Ms. Kasasi readily joined a workshop in the capital city of Kinshasa, with 30 young people who learned about detecting “fake news” and countering it with the most effective weapon: the truth.

 

Guillaume Kingh-Farel, one of the workshop trainers, said disinformation is “used as a weapon of war to undermine MONUSCO’s peace efforts in the DRC”.

 

As such, the MONUSCO-supported workshop to train “a digital army capable of detecting false information” by producing content with the help of a smartphone and editing software and simultaneously spreading objective, credible information through “relay clubs” that disseminate these messages through their networks.

 

“From a smartphone, I will produce videos to echo good information,” Ms. Kasasi said after the workshop.

 

For UN peace operations, some communities they engage are welcoming the new approaches this summer.

 

In Mali, where a transitional Government has been in power since a coup in 2021, the UN mission, MINUSMA, hosted the first of its kind blogger festival, attracting nearly 400 participants in Mopti in early June.

 

“With the advance of technology, digital media is increasingly being used to spread misinformation,” said a popular local blogger who attended the event. “A festival to combat misinformation is an innovative approach to overcome this challenge, a useful means for deconstructing hate speech and fake news.”

 

By the end of June, at the Malian Government’s request, the UN Security Council terminated the mission, which is slated for a complete withdrawal from the country by 1 January 2024.

 

Other efforts are unfolding elsewhere. In early August, in Abyei, a contested zone straddling Sudan and South Sudan, the UN mission there, UNISFA, launched Voice of Peace, an internet radio station aimed at countering hate speech, and fake news.

 

Meanwhile, in DR Congo, MONUSCO’s initiatives continue to reach communities plagued by disinformation-triggered tensions. This includes recruiting digital experts, building multimedia products, and reaching out to communities, especially social media savvy youth, mission chief Ms. Keita said.

 

With these tools, she said MONUSCO has been trying to “beef up our capacity to monitor and to be present on digital platforms in such a way that we are not going to always be in a reactive mode, but in an anticipatory mode”.

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/08/1139682

Anonymous ID: c388f1 Sept. 22, 2023, 11:18 p.m. No.19596505   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Canada #46 >>19583237

 

Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users

By Joe Mullin September 19, 2023

 

The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.

 

A Backdoor That Undermines Encryption

A clause of the bill allows Ofcom, the British telecom regulator, to serve a notice requiring tech companies to scan their users–all of them–for child abuse content. This would affect even messages and files that are end-to-end encrypted to protect user privacy. As enacted, the OSB allows the government to force companies to build technology that can scan regardless of encryption–in other words, build a backdoor.

 

These types of client-side scanning systems amount to “Bugs in Our Pockets,” and a group of leading computer security experts has reached the same conclusion as EFF–they undermine privacy and security for everyone. That’s why EFF has strongly opposed the OSB for years.

 

It’s a basic human right to have a private conversation. This right is even more important for the most vulnerable people. If the U.K. uses its new powers to scan people’s data, lawmakers will damage the security people need to protect themselves from harassers, data thieves, authoritarian governments, and others. Paradoxically, U.K. lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety.

 

Censorship and Age-Gating

Online platforms will be expected to remove content that the U.K. government views as inappropriate for children. If they don’t, they’ll face heavy penalties. The problem is, in the U.K. as in the U.S., people do not agree about what type of content is harmful for kids. Putting that decision in the hands of government regulators will lead to politicized censorship decisions.

 

The OSB will also lead to harmful age-verification systems. This violates fundamental principles about anonymous and simple access that has existed since the beginning of the Internet. You shouldn’t have to show your ID to get online. Age-gating systems meant to keep out kids invariably lead to adults losing their rights to private speech, and anonymous speech, which is sometimes necessary.

 

In the coming months, we’ll be watching what type of regulations the U.K. government publishes describing how it will use these new powers to regulate the internet. If the regulators claim their right to require the creation of dangerous backdoors in encrypted services, we expect encrypted messaging services to keep their promises and withdraw from the U.K. if that nation’s government compromises their ability to protect other users.

 

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/09/today-the-uk-parliament-undermined-the-privacy-security-and-freedom-of-all-internet-users.html