The Disinformation Industry
summary
Describes a growing commercial ecosystem that sells coordinated falsified influence: researchers link a US company (Bivona Digital/LaCorte) and a Macedonia-registered marketing firm to networks of sites (ConservativeEditionNews, LiberalEditionNews) and Facebook pages that together reach about 4 million likes, use petitions to harvest emails, reuse writers from Veles, Macedonia, and share Google Analytics IDs. Cites Oxford finding 70 countries use computational propaganda (45 democracies), ~25 nations hire private firms, and an estimate of $235 million revenue from 20,000 disinformation sites — a model called disinformation for hire that led Facebook to remove pages for spam and misrepresentation.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Disinformation Industry
- 1:57Statistics
- 3:40News Articles
- 5:37Tactics
- 7:29Motivation
- 8:09Whitepaper
- 8:35Website
- 11:06Liberal Edition News
- 11:36Facebook Pages
- 13:17Other Websites
- 15:44Ken The Court
- 17:22Job Postings
- 18:41Identifying the Authors
- 20:15Political Dose
- 21:00Conclusion
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