Propaganda is most easily spread on social media in the form of unverifiable but nice-looking data such as survey results or below-the-radar news stories. But one can also try to get lucky and fool popular writers for more traditional news organizations. That might mean leveraging one of the many successful media outlets that prioritize clicks over substance, and snappy headlines over sound judgment. Clearly, it’s easier to embed an idea in the modern audience’s collective mind if one first makes it attractive for news organizations with a wide reach. This doesn’t mean, however, that those who initiated the hack aren’t learning from their mistakes - and from the successful example of the Russia Today piece. Whoever ran this hoax was extremely thorough, yet still unable to hack the network and embed the hoax within a pre-existing community of real users.” “As more of our information propagation mechanisms are embedded within networks,” Borthwick wrote, “it will become harder for malicious and automated accounts to operate in disguise. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It was also clear that the Tweetstorm had been initiated in Russia one day before the supposed explosion Lotan points out that many of the Twitter accounts that spread the story were created by mass-posting software. The Wikipedia editor, for example, who created the article on the Centerville disaster had too brief a history with the crowdsourced encyclopedia to sustain an entry of this magnitude: site administrators quickly flagged the page and shut it down. It was too easy to disprove and it didn’t help that its creators had made mistakes. There was also a YouTube video in which Islamic State fighters supposedly claimed responsibility for the terror attack and a Facebook page for a nonexistent news outlet called Louisiana News, which backed up the Islamic State story.Ī Tweetstorm ensued, but no respectable news outlets picked up the story. A Wikipedia page was created for the fake catastrophe, using Wikipedia editor identities that had been developed over some time. 11, Twitter accounts registered under American-sounding names started spreading the story of a chemical factory explosion in Centerville, Louisiana. The “news hack” observed by Lotan, chief data scientist at Betaworks, was more sophisticated and disturbing, even though it was ultimately unsuccessful. Article content When the war in Ukraine quiets down, Putin’s war on the West will not
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