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GreenPolicy360: The development of science over the ions is, as the song goes, "a long and winding road" but here we are in the 21st Century and still facing ancient themes. The "Scientific Revolution", as it was called, was based on ancient knowledge -- and arguments -- that carried throgh the "Middle Ages" and led to "The Enlightenment", "The Age of Reason", and in Europe the end of "Feudalism", and beginning of "Mercantalism", "Colonialism" and "Capitalism." The social and political revolutions, across the world in the 1800s brought on conflict and wars into the 1900s and a new "Internet Age", connecting nations across our planet marks the beginning of a new electronic, computer era.

Within the computer, information networking of the Internet "World Wide Web", many of the old arguments carry on with computer-assisted reach, engagement, and persuasive power.

Welcome Digital Citizen. Are you prepared?


Digital Citizen

Digital Rights

Fact Checking

Fact Checking and Embedded Links

GreenLinks

Internet of Things and Intelligent Energy Efficiency

Mobile Internet

Online Privacy

Privacy on the Net-Online Rights

Strategic Policy-Internet Online Rights

Virtual Private Network

Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki

World Wide Web



Books on Disinformation: Its History, Techniques and Effects

Via New York Times / July 2022



The Union of Concerned Scientists Reveals Facts About the 'Disinformation Playbook'

How to Stop Disinformation

Countering Disinformation in Your Community - PDF)


Is Disinformation the Same as Misinformation?


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What You Can Do to Stop Disinformation


How Business Interests Deceive, Misinform, and Buy Influence at the Expense of Public Health and Safety


Here are five of the most widely used “plays” and some of the many cases where they have been used to block regulations or minimize corporate liability, often with frightening effectiveness—and disastrous repercussions on public health and safety.


1) The Fake

Conduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research


2) The Blitz

Harass scientists who speak out with results or views inconvenient for industry


3) The Diversion

Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists


4) The Screen

Buy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies


5) The Fix

Manipulate government officials or processes to inappropriately influence policy



Misinfo/Disinfo, Powerful Political Tools

Hybrid Threats, Hybrid Warfare

In politics, in influencing and swaying public opinion, in engaging target audiences and motivating these groups and individuals with 'calls to action'

In international relations, in regional conflicts, in the cause of nationalism, conflicts and wartime

In the Internet Era, the Use of Misinformation and Disinformation becomes a formidable weapon


Psyops


Dictionary Definition of Psyops (psychological operations) by Merriam-Webster

Military operations usually aimed at influencing the enemy's state of mind through noncombative means (such as distribution of leaflets)

First Known Use of psyops

First known use of psyops -- 1965, in the meaning defined above


GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands, adds an expanded definition in cyberwarfare application of psyops -- consider "cyber-psyops" as in the disinformation/misinformation viral use of online social media platforms to deliver messaging intended to deceive, distract, and sow distrust of fact-based news and online information

e.g., via The Guardian / March 20, 2022

"Fake news factories with wave of sanctions

"UK and US crack down on outlets and websites peddling ‘false and misleading’ reports thought to be backed by Russian intelligence"


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Disinformation / Misinformation

The Bane of the Early Internet Age


Misinformation... Disinformation... Deeply Damaging Democracy



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Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count'


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Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360

80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)

60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)

37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)

MediaWise for Teens

PolitiFact via Poynter

Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network

Poynter Int'l List

Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News


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WWW Origins-Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web" - WebFoundation.org

March 2017 Open Letter from Berners-Lee on Threats to the Web


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From the Aspen Institute:


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From Micah Sifry:

April 2021

On Anti-disinformation work

In the last five years of a whole cottage industry (has been built) of research centers, academic studies, journalistic conferences and tech summits on disinformation.

In 2017, the CUNY School of Journalism (now called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) launched a $14 million News Integrity Initiative with primary funding from Facebook, with the goal of “helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.” That same year, the Omidyar Network announced $100 million in funding for journalism outlets and to organizations combating hate speech and the spread of false information. The Annenberg Innovation Lab launched a “Truthiness Collaborative” to “advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem.

Now in just the last year, there’s a plethora of new organizations with names like The Forum on Information and Democracy, Digital Citizens Alliance, the Coalition for a Safer Web, and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.


More from Micah:

The disruptive moment is over: Micah Sifry on why the internet hasn’t transformed politics (yet) (2014)

To Change Voters’ Sympathies, It’s Time to Go Deep



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Time for an International 'Internet Bill of Rights'


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Fighting Back: Time for Facts and Science


Digital360


GreenPolicy360 & Science


Climate Denial / Misinfo


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