2024/02/17 17:00
The Washington Post revealed that since Musk was absent from cross-platform cooperation meetings after acquiring Social Platform X, Social Platform The picture shows Musk, Chairman of X Platform. (Reuters)
Li Qiuming/Review Editor
[Instant News/Comprehensive Report]The US “Washington Post” public analysis data disclosed on the evening of the 16th that due to Musk’s absence from the cross-platform cooperation meeting after acquiring Social Platform X, Social Platform The goal of “gap” is to interfere with American political opinion. Experts also bluntly stated that the defense capabilities of American social platforms against foreign interference are lower than in 2020.
according to“China Post” reportanalysis data shows that although the activities of China’s cyber army have been exposed in large numbers on other social platforms or in criminal proceedings, these cyber army accounts have spread on social platform X.
The report pointed out that after the controversy over Russia’s interference in the US election broke out in 2016, social giants such as Facebook, IG’s parent company Meta, Google, which operates YouTube, and Twitter have been cooperating with each other to prevent cyber armies from various countries and cooperated with the United States. Federal law enforcement agencies’ approach to reducing foreign interference.
Musk’s unsociable X platform fell into the trap of fake news
However, since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and had not yet changed its name to A person familiar with the matter revealed, “They (Twitter) seemed to have just disappeared.”
This directly caused Musk’s X platform to become a “cyber army’s breach”. Even if the cyber army group’s account is banned on other social platforms, it can still actively operate and spread information on X, and even lead to the return of false and false information from the cyber army. to other social platforms.
Experts warn: The US community’s defense against foreign interference is weaker than in 2020
In this regard, Yael Eisenstat, a senior researcher at Cybersecurity for Democracy (Cybersecurity for Democracy), a non-profit research laboratory for inter-university cooperation in the United States, explained, “Any action that wants to spread false information must be Across mainstream platforms”. She also bluntly said, “In terms of preventing the influence of foreign forces, our protection is worse now than in 2020.”
The report revealed that the last X platform representative to participate in the cross-platform meeting was Irish security expert Aaron Rodericks. Now he has been fired for liking a post criticizing Musk on the X platform, and is currently in court with Musk and X.
Other platforms are unable to catch X and become a safe haven for the Internet army.
According to analysis data, among the 150 cyber army accounts disclosed by Meta last year, 136 were still active on the X platform as of yesterday (16th), including 1 million-tracking account from Turkey, and 5 others. All accounts that have passed the “Blue Check” review.
What worries researchers even more is that among the 123 fake accounts of the Chinese cyber army announced by Meta in May, August and December last year, as many as 115 accounts are still operating safely on X. Meta also issued a warning this week. The network operated by the Chinese Cyber Army Group is growing exponentially.
China’s cyber army plays the role of “troublemaker”, causing chaos in the community
In response to the chaotic political interference of China’s cyber community, think tank Exovera and Kieran Green, an expert on Chinese political propaganda and censorship, pointed out that this highlights the Chinese Communist Party’s high-level officials who want to use all possible means to strengthen political propaganda targeting foreign audiences.
Green said: “Chinese cyber-military political propaganda methods include trolling specific hashtags, pretending to be experts to criticize the government, or using a large number of robots to troll to create a sense of social consensus. The goal is not necessarily to change the audience’s ideas and consciousness, but to create chaos. The “opposite wind direction” is formed.”
No need to draw, no need to grab, now use the APP to watch the news, guaranteed to win every dayClick me to download the APP
Click me to see the activity details
#Musk #touch #China #Post #platform #vulnerability #Chinese #cyber #forces #interfere #politics #International #Free #Times #enewsletter
2024-02-17 09:00:41