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US Special Operations units to take on Chinese disinformation

Stavros Atlamazoglou | April 6, 2021

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has created a new joint task force to fight against Chinese information operations in the Pacific.

Army General Rickard D. Clarke, the commander of SOCOM, revealed the new task force during a testimony to the Armed Services Committee.

In an increasingly inter-connected world where news (fake and real) shapes the views and opinions of billions of people, information operations are critical. People have the tendency to believe the first account they hear, watch, or read regardless of its veracity. Thus, they make easy targets for influence by malign state or non-state actors. In other words, people have historically been receptive to propaganda and the more modern term of “fake news.”

Enter China.

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/us-special-operations-units-to-take-on-chinese-disinformation/