How Disinformation will Affect Disaster Response
INFODOMWAR will be a factor in the next disaster
NOTE: This video was filmed before Hurricane Helene. While some foreign agents may have tried to spread disinformation after the disaster, I personally did not notice much foreign involvement in the first few days of Hurricane Helene.
Our adversaries will use INFODOMWAR during future disasters to harm Americans by spreading fake news, or even seeding false information about relief centers or evacuation routes. This will cause American casualties.
To counter this we must:
1. Establish AI algorithms to identify fake news.
2. Create AI chatbots that could act as the official source of information.
3. Increase public awareness of official sources.
4. Hold tech companies accountable for failure to act.
Caroline Orr-Bueno’s Article on Hawaii disinformation can be found here.
My whitepaper for the Australia Journal of Emergency Management can be found below:
Special thanks to Cyabra.com for allowing me to use their software.
Disinfo a problem? Government transparency an easy solution.
Telling, Ryan’s focus is on “disinformation” about the Biden-Harris disaster response and in a previous video how Russian money led to disinformation in “right wing” media sites trying to influence the American election. Nothing about the Democrats’ & Harris’s disinformation campaign weeks before the election from former Trump admin staffers that he wants general’s like Hitler’s generals and used a disparaging, racist comments about the cost of a Hispanic Soldier killed at Fort Hood. All these absurd claims were debunked by multiple Trump staffers in the room when he allegedly said this. VP Harris repeated these lies at a CNN town hall with no fact checking.