The move also comes as the #Biden admin & #Congress are grappling w/how to push back on #China w/o tipping the 2 countries into open conflict, & w/how to reduce the risk that #AI is used to magnify #disinformation.

The impact of the Chinese campaign — identified by researchers from #Microsoft, #RecordedFuture, the #RANDCorp, #NewsGuard & the #UofMaryland — is difficult to measure, tho early indications suggest that few social media users engaged w/the most outlandish of the #ConspiracyTheories.

One Nation Under #MindControl
#RandCorp #Nudge

@thedarktangent Great images.

That first diagram of centralised / decentralised / distributed networks is straight out of Paul Baran's 1964 work detailing the concept of packet-switched networks. You can get the original publications direct from the RAND Corporation, along with all his RAND works:

https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

Of his other and later works, many concerned issues of privacy, surveillance, and discrimination made possible though computerised systems, showing remarkable prescience:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

The full set was made publicly available free of charge after an inquiry I'd made a few years ago.

#PaulBaran #RandCorp #PacketSwitchedNetworks #Privacy #Surveillance #Networking