The new #FreedomOnTheNet report launches TODAY and finds global internet freedom has declined for 9 straight years. https://t.co/4ZwvGk7RQn pic.twitter.com/FJXbMEFUqe— Freedom House (@freedomhouse) November 5, 2019
UPI: More nations using social media to spread propaganda, study finds
Nov. 5 (UPI) -- More governments than ever before are using social media to fight opposing viewpoints and spread their own propaganda, according to a new analysis by a Washington, D.C., group that tracks free speech on the Internet.
Nonprofit Freedom House said in its "Freedom on the Net 2019" report, "what was once a liberating technology has become a conduit for surveillance and electoral manipulation." The study examined a nation-by-nation comparison of Internet freedoms and concluded more governments are "titling the technology toward digital authoritarianism."
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WNU Editor: The "Freedom on the Net 2019" report is here .... The Crisis of Social Media (Freedom House).
More News On The "Freedom On The Net 2019" Report
Social media manipulation and surveillance diminishing internet freedoms in U.S. and abroad: Report -- Washington Times
Rights Group: Governments Increasing Social Media Use to Influence Elections -- VOA
Domestic online interference mars global elections: report -- Reuters
Your Social Media Is (Probably) Being Watched Right Now, Says New Surveillance Report -- Forbes
Freedom House: Kazakhstan, Sudan, Brazil Top List Of Deteriorating Internet Freedoms -- RFE
About 3 Billion Social Media Users Are Being Spied On by Their Governments -- VICE
The internet is getting less free -- VOX
Disinformation 'works better than censorship,' warns internet freedom report -- Tech Crunch
China Named Worst Abuser of Internet Freedom in Freedom House Report -- Radio Free Asia
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The problem is the lack of education and emotional maturity of your average social media consumer. The fact that Russia could spend ~$200K on Facebook propaganda in 2016 and have the effect that it did on those readers, lets us all know that there's a huge problem.
These people are unable to recognize disinformation from true events. Indoctrination and low quality, Left-centric education has produced a generation of young people who are unable to do any critical thinking. They know the template they've been given and nothing else. No coping skills with and zero tolerance of any views other than those they've been trained on
Basically a demographic of group-thinkers who are unable to think outside their ordained media box and become violently distressed if exposed arguments they disagree with.
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