Ashoka University criticised for dissociating itself from professor’s paper on election manipulation

His research raised the possibility of manipulation in favour of the ruling BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

#SabyasachiDas #AshokaUniversity #2019elections #ElectionManipulation #BJP #democracy #dissent #research #academia #muslims #hindutva #india

https://scroll.in/article/1053658/ashoka-university-criticised-for-dissociating-itself-from-professors-paper-on-election-manipulation

@RollingStone Trump's attorney obviously shares the same disregard for right & wrong with his client.

#IndictTrump #ElectoralFraud #FindTheFicticiousVotes #Georgia #ElectionManipulation #Coercion #ObstructionOfOfficialProceedings

☝️ #mustread: All these various criminal projects aimed at destroying societies by destroying *trust* in them...

>> "...a systemic battle between autocratic and democratic countries"
...
"The effort was worth it for the cyber-mercenaries. Manipulating the truth has grown into a multi-billion-dollar business in which, according to experts, hundreds of service providers are active around the world alongside state actors."
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"We provide tailor made services," Meidan says. Everywhere where governments are wobbling, where things could really explode if elections were to get out of hand. All the client has to do is define their goals or targets, and Team Jorge designs a suitable strategy and deploys the necessary resources and people, he says - veterans of intelligence and military services, specialists in psychological warfare, financial experts.
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The fact that the leaders of Team Jorge were themselves formerly in the service of a democratically elected governments doesn't seem to bother them. There are only three rules at Team Jorge, emphasizes Nick: No assignments can be accepted in Israel or the United States, at least not in politics. And going up against Putin is off limits. <<

Hostile #dictatorships need to be kept the hell out of "Free World townsquares" and all these sociopathic agents of manipulation given the full "crimes against humanity" treatment.

With all its warts, the modern civilization we're currently experiencing —esp. in open-minded and tolerant democracies — is the result of endless efforts of people trying to improve things in our societies, not sowing chaos and distrust in them.

And some #psychopaths go and make a *business* out of destroying our *civil* societies?

All these people are still walking free and enjoying the fruits of their crimes... Every single one.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/inside-the-covert-firm-that-spreads-lies-and-chaos-around-the-world-a-3c55e1cd-7d61-4cf8-8321-999da1996aa8

@emmalbriant #disinformation #misinformation #electionmanipulation #russia #putin #ccp #china #maga #trump #democracy #hybridwarfare #autocracy #cambridgeanalytica #teamjorge #talhanan #nuremberg #interpol

The cyberweapons a key Israeli company offers its clients in order to corrupt democracies across the globe. #ElectionManipulation #democracy at Risk #corruption
@GurMegiddo @omerbenj https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/hacking-extortion-election-interference-the-toolkit-of-israels-agents-of-chaos/00000186-4aa6-d933-af9e-cbe7aa9c0000

"Hacking, Faking, Manipulating: The Business of Elections" -
"An Israeli company offers disinformation campaigns for money - worldwide. Joint research by ZDF, SPIEGEL and ZEIT with the investigative network Forbidden Stories reveals the extent."

#Documentary in #German with #English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0okVa6sSU

Three journalists go undercover to meet men who operate in secret and claim they can manipulate any election in the world. On offer: the complete package. Sowing doubt, causing unrest, ultimately torpedoing democracy. They call it electronic warfare. Their tools are an army of avatars.

The research on Team Jorge, the secretive force from Israel, took several months. Journalists from more than 30 editorial offices around the world were involved - including the Israeli daily Haaretz, Radio France, Le Monde and the Guardian.

#Disinformation #DisinformationIndustry #Hacking #Desinformation #FakeNews #Israel #Wahlmanipulation #ElectionManipulation
#ForbiddenStories
#StoryKillers #CambridgeAnalytica
#Elections
#Africa
#SocialMedia
#FakeAccounts

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
"‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigation - Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles
- Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
- Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections
"A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation.

The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym “Jorge”, and appears to have been working under the radar in elections in various countries for more than two decades.

He is being unmasked by an international consortium of journalists. Hanan and his unit, which uses the codename “Team Jorge”, have been exposed by undercover footage and documents leaked to the Guardian."

"Hanan told the undercover reporters that his services, which others describe as “black ops”, were available to intelligence agencies, political campaigns and private companies that wanted to secretly manipulate public opinion. He said they had been used across #Africa, South and Central America, the #US and #europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

#Elections #FakeNews #FakeAccounts #Disinformation #DisinformationIndustry #ElectionManipulation #Hacking #SouthAmerica #CentralAmerica #Sabotage #AutomatedDisinformation #AutomatedFakeNews #Israel

This is the price of gas today in Orange County, Southern CA. Don’t tell me #BigOil doesn’t try to control the election.
#gasprices #ElectionManipulation

This is the price of gas today in Orange County, Southern CA. Don’t tell me #BigOil doesn’t try to control the election.
#gasprices #ElectionManipulation