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Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X: Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts (www.theguardian.com)

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The German foreign ministry, which commissioned the study after suspecting it was being targeted by bots, said the findings highlighted the need for governments to systematically tackle the growing number of disinformation campaigns and recognise the effect they could have on elections.

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Or improving funding of the schooling system so that we can figure it out ourselves. Here in Australia we are embarrassingly over funding sport rather then education. I imagine USA is similar.

We deserve to have our stupidity exploited by the enemy. I kind of admire their strategy.

[–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That solution will take more than 15 years to see fruit. We need solutions now.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That mentality is what got us into this mess. Democratic governments don't plan beyond the election cycle.

Also, kids influence their parents.

In the meantime Australia could also invest in the national broadcaster to educate adults regarding history and critical thinking. Instead it has been gutted by defunding. Informative radio shows used to have transcripts available etc

[–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Ok.

How do we stop republicunts form their 40 year quest to destroy public education when we can't convince half the nation that Jan6 was even a bad thing?

Using the power of ignorant and loud constituents, propaganda, media manipulation and Reagan's 1st commandment (thou shalt not speak ill of other republicunts) they have made their actions immune to scrutiny and have the political clout to get their bad actors on or leading every educational government org.

And that's not even SCRATCHING the surface of how many school boards have republicunts on them that both do not have school age children and have zero vested interest in improving school systems. How do you even fight back on that now?

No, the only way we will manage to get back to a reasonable 1st world education system is if magically every shitheel that voted for trump was thanos snapped away.