Usa: the Air Force wages war on Fake News

Network security goes to the Pentagon. We are not talking about the physical security of networks but about discovering "fake news" which, as seen, if used massively, can affect political campaigns but also the behavior of the population. Corsera reports that the USAF, the American Air Force, would be developing software capable of automatically scanning the contents circulating on the net, intercepting those that are clearly false. Many think that the military should not carry out this control. Even if the internet was born from an internal military network (DARPA) then released for commercial use thirty years ago by the Bill Clinton administration. The Special Operations Command of the US Air Force will be the command that will monitor fake news. The decision to entrust this task to the military since it has been seen that disinformation can compromise military campaigns, or make wars win without firing a rifle. Russian influence on Ukrainian separatist forces was taught by hybrid warfare, an influence that has had concrete effects on the ground. Hybrid warfare, a war on the ground but also above all on the media, means having a hot war in one place and generating disinformation both in the population involved and in world public opinion. Therefore disinformation and propaganda, especially through fake news, must reach the goal of destabilizing entire regions or continents. To deal with fake news Viktor Hamotskyi, Ukrainian consul in Naples said: "The more people read, the more interested they become and the more involved they are in the political phase. But it is also true that today it is more difficult to find the truth, because so much news falls on you. Reading an article you have to go and find other sources, not be captivated only by the first news that appears on the screen and come to hasty conclusions. This is the war for the minds. News appears on the web and then disappears, it does not remain fixed as can be the paper print where the news remains written with ink. The protection of the minds and reasoning of citizens is another bulwark of democracy that must be protected and cultivated ”. But controlling the network is also used for military activities called "psyops ". Activities that aim to inform the population in areas of operations. Here is an example, however, of disinformation: An air raid that achieves its objectives can, for example, be presented to public opinion as a failed operation, which causes collateral damage and victims of friendly fire. Here comes the US Air Force which, aided by private companies specialized in the construction of neural networks such as First, they analyze the contents on the net, they evaluate the reliability of the sources. Hard work for a democracy, while an authoritarian regime, which does not have the problem of defending its credibility in the face of public opinion, can lie with greater ease. The Corriere della Sera article then makes a very "shocking" consideration"Better think about it: the next step is the development of a software that evaluates the accuracy of the sources and establishes a ranking of the credibility of the media. That it is the Pentagon cannot fail to arouse some concern".

Usa: the Air Force wages war on Fake News

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