Fake News

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An article from the trusted Pew Research Center, or is it?

http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/2...e-news-online/

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

This comment is thought provoking, what does a failed state in the cyber domain mean? That is under controlled by government or international regulatory body? What are the implications of a failed state in the cyber domain? It seems to parallel the risks associated with failed physical states (minus mass migration), with an increase of crime, fracturing of identities, new sub-state groups increasing radical due to listening to their own echo chambers without any balancing views? Furthermore, the cyber domain/state has influence on all traditional states defined by their geographical boundaries, and their populations? Does the failed cyber state enable actors to act outside government control in a way that threatens governments via the promotion of fake news (and other means)? BREXIT, back lash against globalization (without really understanding why), deepening divides between left and right, the perception of chaos, etc. Can states control the impact of this failed state by increasingly regulating it? How does that impact the economy, that is increasingly web based? California is proposing a law to make it illegal to deliberately spread false news. That will prove interesting enough to pass, much less enforce.

Their research resulted in four themes (there are sub themes under each of these worth reading):

Has someone who has 87 employees and adding another 60 totally focused on this battlespace and it is a true battlespace.... it pales in comparison to the ongoing activities on the darknet side of the internet....

What makes it so hard is the limitation in tools necessary to collect and assess because take twitter bots...they can multiple by a factor of five overnight....and to work the darkside tends to place one on the darkside sometimes as well...

There is now a far more serious question...what is defined as "legal and non legal"??

Right now there was an recent estimate of 43M twitter bots out on the net and know one knows who controls them....

Far more interesting is who controls these botnets and for what purposes....

I would though TTALLY agree the current internet as it stands today 3/4/2017 is in fact a "failed state"...for every single "legal" business model...you will find a "illegal business model of the legal version"...that was not the case five years....