From Q's last post
The Battle for Bavaria Online information campaigns in the 2018 Bavarian State Election
What needs to happen in response?
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Transparent technologies: in order to protect fundamental rights, security and democracy, transparency should be at the heart of policy responses to deceptive and distortive uses of social media platforms, both within and outside election contexts.
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A strategic framework for responding to malign influence online: instead of tactical barricades, democratic governments should develop coherent national or international strategies to set the legal limits for political campaigning in the age of social media.
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The new extremist online ecosystem:
experts, policymakers and technologists need to work together to design ways to respond to the far-right’s technological ecosystem. We have seen the development of a set of norms for responding to extremist content on the largest social media platforms – Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. These combine a spectrum
of content removal approaches, demonetisation and counter-narrative communications. These types of responses do not necessarily map well onto the new kinds of technology platforms used by the far-right, where we have increasingly seen a migration of activity to platforms that are smaller, often unmoderated and sometimes purpose-built, such as Gab, Wrongthink, Voat
or Bitchute. Many of these sites do not have
the resources or the will to moderate content
to prevent the use of their platforms for hate or extremist mobilisation. Yet these spaces cannot be left unchallenged.
. Research on the evolving threat: the EU
has provided support for infrastructure and expertise on election monitoring from external threats such as Kremlin information warfare. There is now an urgent need to support electoral interference analysis of elections taking place within the EU and to incorporate a wider range of malign influence campaigns online.
https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Battle-for-Bavaria.pdf
https://www.isdglobal.org
THEY ARE AFRIAD OF MEME'S!
PEPE IS ALL POWERFUL!
Actually this is a step towards control of the internet, and free speech. They want to regulate, control, and contain.
From the Guardian article:
QAnon adherents organise themselves on encrypted apps such as Discord and Telegram, linking the American-centred conspiracy theory to local contexts. Emotionally manipulative and tightly organised campaigns have allowed them to gather tens of thousands of supporters across Europe. They produce videos, disinformation databases and run trainings on meme creation and psychological warfare. QAnon even has its own currency called “Initiative Q”, which its founders want to turn into “the next bitcoin”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/online-conspiracy-theorists-democracy
WHAT THE FUCK IS INITIATIVE Q???