共匪为帮川普连任而对美国发动信息战，危害远超偷袭珍珠港

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追蹤研究發現，挺川謠言 / 假信息的一大源頭是中共匪

Hundreds of fake Twitter accounts linked to China sowed disinformation prior to the US election
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/v ... uilding-riot-report

A sophisticated China-linked social media operation played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, a report from Cardiff University concludes.

The study, from the Crime and Security Research Institute, shows evidence of the network’s activities reaching a wide audience, most successfully through a now debunked viral video that was later shared by Eric Trump, son of former US President Donald Trump, falsely showing ballots being burned on election day.

Researchers also found evidence of the same network spreading anti-US propaganda which amplified calls for violence before and after the Capitol riot in Washington on 6 January 2021.

On US election day (03/11/20), a misleading video of a man filming himself allegedly burning Trump-voting ballots on Virginia Beach was detected circulating across several platforms. Although the ballots were later revealed to be samples, the video quickly went viral when Eric Trump’s official Twitter page shared a link to it a day later, with this version alone receiving more than 1.2 million views.

Initially, the video was widely assumed to originate from a QAnon-associated account, but the Cardiff University investigation has uncovered evidence that two China-linked accounts, one of which has since been suspended by Twitter, shared the video prior to this. Researchers believe this led to the content, which continues to be shared today, gaining significant spread.

There is strong evidence of links to China; posts include use of the Chinese language and a focus upon topics suited to Chinese geopolitical interests. More recent analysis shows the accounts were solely active in Chinese office hours; there was limited activity during a Chinese national holiday; and English language use appears to have been derived from machine translation tools.

Chinese bots had key role in debunked ballot video shared by Eric Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/worl ... t-votes-viral-video

A Chinese bot network played a key role in spreading disinformation during and after the US election, including a debunked video of “ballot burning” shared by Eric Trump, a new study reveals.

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中文圈2020大挺川回顾

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兰德智库披露俄罗斯的信息战模式，说中了挺川狂潮中出现的诸多怪象

The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

Contemporary Russian propaganda is continuous and very responsive to events. Due to their lack of commitment to objective reality (discussed later), Russian propagandists do not need to wait to check facts or verify claims; they just disseminate an interpretation of emergent events that appears to best favor their themes and objectives. This allows them to be remarkably responsive and nimble, often broadcasting the first “news” of events (and, with similar frequency, the first news of nonevents, or things that have not actually happened). They will also repeat and recycle disinformation.

The January 14, 2016, edition of Weekly Disinformation Review reported the reemergence of several previously debunked Russian propaganda stories, including that Polish President Andrzej Duda was insisting that Ukraine return former Polish territory, that Islamic State fighters were joining pro-Ukrainian forces, and that there was a Western-backed coup in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital.11

Sometimes, Russian propaganda is picked up and rebroadcast by legitimate news outlets; more frequently, social media repeats the themes, messages, or falsehoods introduced by one of Russia’s many dissemination channels. For example, German news sources rebroadcast Russian disinformation about atrocities in Ukraine in early 2014, and Russian disinformation about EU plans to deny visas to young Ukrainian men was repeated with such frequency in Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian general staff felt compelled to post a rebuttal.

Contemporary Russian propaganda makes little or no commitment to the truth. This is not to say that all of it is false. Quite the contrary: It often contains a significant fraction of the truth. Sometimes, however, events reported in Russian propaganda are wholly manufactured

The final distinctive characteristic of Russian propaganda is that it is not committed to consistency. First, different propaganda media do not necessarily broadcast the exact same themes or messages. Second, different channels do not necessarily broadcast the same account of contested events. Third, different channels or representatives show no fear of “changing their tune.” If one falsehood or misrepresentation is exposed or is not well received, the propagandists will discard it and move on to a new (though not necessarily more plausible) explanation.

RAND Corporation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation

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无论输赢，川普都习惯性指责对手「舞弊」、选举「被操纵」：



川普长期指责美国的选举制度「被操纵」、「舞弊」，又指责西方主流媒体是「人民的敌人」、「假新闻」，这与中共匪、俄罗斯的宣传口径完全一致。

川普就是极权专制势力对民主世界的斩首行动，其目标是从政治、经济、文化、军事、国际战略、价值观、精神信仰、对民主制度的信心等各方面，全方位多角度，来摧毁美国、摧毁民主制度。

Chinese Embassy retweets Trump’s false claims of election fraud, then backtracks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/ ... hen-backtracks.html

The Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in the United States on Wednesday shared a post by President Trump falsely claiming that the Democrats “cheated” in the election and that the results should be overturned — only to undo the retweet hours later and claim that its account had been hacked.

Chinese state-backed newspapers have gleefully asked similar questions. “So-called US-style democracy has descended into a joke,” a front-page headline in one paper read after the election.

Chinese embassy in US allege hacking after retweet of Trump's election claim
https://www.theguardian.com/us-n ... rump-election-claim

World shocked by Trump supporters' attack on U.S. democracy
https://www.reuters.com/article/ ... ion-f-idUSKBN29B2VS

RUSSIA

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle.”

Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the international affairs committee of the Russian upper house: “The celebration of democracy is over. This is, alas, actually the bottom, I say this without a hint of gloating. America is no longer charting the course, and therefore has lost all its rights to set it. And especially to impose it on others.”

CHINA

China drew a comparison between the storming of the Capitol and often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which have been quelled by the coronavirus pandemic and a security crackdown by Beijing.

IRAN

“What happened in America showed what a failure Western democracy is ... A populist man damaged the reputation of his country,” President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech.

Trump and May Are Discrediting Democracy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/0 ... uthoritarian-model/

Chaos and dysfunction in Washington and London make liberal democratic government look bad—and embolden China and Russia to market authoritarianism as an efficient alternative.

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