Israel’s battle against misinformation and hate is overwhelming on most days. During a war, it goes on overdrive. By last measure, online anti-Semitism has spiked by a massive 1200% since October 7th When faced with a river of hate from legions of enemy countries and sympathizers, Israel’s Hasbara (positive PR) efforts are chronically understaffed, under-funded
Imagine the US deploying AI bots to deal with “anti-US hate”. Wild.
I guess that was kinda the cold war though.
DARPA, and the national science foundation provide grants to AI backed social graph disinformation eradiction efforts.
Same thing, different paint job.
Sarcasm, but only just. I hope nobody’s dumb enough in the US government to say we need to make propaganda online, but they might forget to use the politically correct smoke screen combat disinformation online.