There's going to be a lot of Russian and Chinese interference in American politics in 2024 for sure
They pulled out of the EU Code of Practice around disinformation back in May and they have been warned as recently as yesterday that the platform was the worst of all of the social networks at allowing Russian disinformation.
And I am sure everyone who used it has seen the massive uptick in bots and other coordinated activity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/09/x-twitter...
If I were China I’d probably go with a hardware supply chain attack. These machines can sit around for years.
I think DARPA’s SSITH program is a step in the right direction. At the very least, I’d feel a lot better with bug bounties on publicly available demonstrators from all manufacturers.
There are hundreds of factors that will ultimately decide who wins on the day.
So, not sure they sat it out as much as the U.S. was a little better prepared. For instance, social media platforms did a better job of not being completely owned as fire hoses for propaganda and disinfo.
Of course, some then complained that this constituted "censorship" by the platforms.
Literally, by definition, and extending well beyond just election topics.
Better job by not cashing the adversaries checks?
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/...
> Of course, some then complained that this constituted "censorship" by the platforms.
Ah you mean the government going hunting and finding accounts that violated the ever changing ToS which was heavily influenced by the USG?
Safe to say that $46K ad spend was a drop in the bucket versus their overall effort, but sure, Facebook not accepting those rubles in 2020 counts as a small example.
I have no problem with the U.S. government working with American communications platforms to prevent adversarial propaganda, disinformation and disruption of US elections. These are foreign governments engaged in psyops against American citizens. Falls pretty squarely (and obviously) within government purview to defend against it.
And, in any case, if they're parroting the same disinfo as foreign adversaries who are working to destroy us, then they don't get special dispensation just because they're U.S. citizens.
This is why the First Amendment famously has limits.
You just described every social media platform.
"Interference" refers to China/Russia state-sponsored targetted propaganda on social media and the like.
Was it really the "most safe and secure" and is "interference" an accurate way to describe these type of activities? Well, one could argue about that. But you're mixing up two mostly unrelated things here.
What russian or chinese interference is there when there is 24/7 anti-russian and anti-chinese propaganda?
I’m not even going to touch the thinly veiled antisemitic smear