In a move that is Orwellian even by the current year’s dystopian standards, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security on Monday issued a heightened terrorist threat assessment centered around “online misinformation:”
The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. [DHS]
That’s right, folks, the Ministry of Truth is officially here, under the auspices of the government’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency:
CISA’s Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation (MDM) team is charged with building national resilience to mis-, dis-, and malinformation and foreign influence activities. Through these efforts, CISA helps the American people understand the scope and scale of MDM activities targeting elections and critical infrastructure, and enables them to take actions to mitigate associated risks. The MDM team was formerly known as the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force (CFITF)...As a reminder, they have had components of this in the works for the last two decades at various levels and were really able to test drive them thoroughly on the covid as I posted previously at:
Three new words for Tiny-minds to learn: infodemiology, infoveillance and infodemic
If you dig into those three words, you will learn that they go as far back as 2002. In other words, they have been formulating, i.e. crafting, messaging for nearly two decades on how to manipulate Tiny-minds. Appears it's rather easy at that...