The Marines Are Copying the Air Force's Efforts to Counter Online Disinformation

[rangerrebew]

 The Marines Are Copying the Air Force's Efforts to Counter Online Disinformation
Meanwhile, the Army is trying to get inside perpetrators' OODA loops.
 
By Brandi Vincent
Staff Correspondent
September 14, 2021 11:20 PM ET

 

Disinformation and malign influence online are among nascent digital threats the U.S. military is actively countering, top officials said on Monday.

“Watching Facebook and Reddit and Twitter and [Russian social media site] VK and [Chinese search engine and internet company] Baidu after and during the Afghanistan mission—everyone should take a look,” said Alex Miller, Army G-2 Senior Advisor for science, technology, and innovation. “It's a great example of what happens when we have a serious traumatic issue that we're trying to respond to in real-time, and our adversaries are deliberately messaging. They're putting out malign influence messages. They're putting out misinformation. They're putting out true information, just spinning it. So all of that is out there, and it's really hard to do anything about it if you don't understand what's happening.”

Miller joined top officials from the Space Force, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps during a panel at the Intelligence and National Security Summit hosted by INSA and AFCEA.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/09/military-intel-officials-highlight-efforts-counter-online-disinformation/185346/

[EdinVA]

They're putting out true information, just spinning it.

So, what the US government is upset about is others are better at spinning information (a.k.a. lying)  than the US......

[Kamaji]

So shut down the major social media publishers - for publishers they are, not mere platforms - and be done with it.

Nothing larger than a discussion forum with several thousand members should be allowed to continue existing.  And no active "curation" - i.e., propagandization - of content or information.