USAGM Chief Strategy Officer @shawnpowers opens the event. "...in the two years since we last hosted this forum, we have witnessed one of the most alarming periods for media freedom in modern history."
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#M4DF starts now! Watch the live event on Global Disinformation vs. Democracy — Confronting the Existential Threat: https://go.usa.gov/xHdWS
Join @mariaressa, @peterpomeranzev, @C_C_Krebs, @snigdhapoonam & more for the discussion using the hashtag #M4DF.pic.twitter.com/kfrLMTtQ5Z
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@shawnpowers: "Beyond interfering in the marketplace of fact-based ideas, the recent rise in disinformation threatens to sow distrust not just towards a particular policy or administration, but in the very institutions that form the foundation of any functioning society."Show this thread -
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@peterpomeranzev "We used to think that dictatorships, they censored people by squeezing the information space, by throwing dissidents in jail and shutting down their publications, and that still happens in a huge amount of places, especially the ones where USAGM works."Show this thread -
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@peterpomeranzev "But there’s a new threat which turns this on its head. We now see the use of online disinformation campaigns, both in terms of content but more important in terms of behavior.”Show this thread -
#M4DF -@peterpomeranzev "What we’re really talking about here is not so much content in the digital era, we’re talking about scale, targeting, amplification. Those are the things we can think about, we can think about regulating them."Show this thread -
#M4DF -@peterpomeranzev "If we’re going to have a real public square out there it should generally be one person, one voice. What we have at the moment is one person controlling thousands and thousands of fake accounts pretending to be people. We can change that.”Show this thread
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