A Strategy to Fight Digital Disinformation: Digital Communicators Network | DipNote

Last week in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsored the Digital Communicators Network (DCN) Influencers Forum, teaching frontline communicators tactics to push back against disinformation. I had the pleasure of addressing the forum and met with many of the attendees during my visit, which coincided with the 83rd Thessaloniki International Fair at which the United States was the “honored country.”
— Read on blogs.state.gov/stories/2018/09/20/en/strategy-fight-digital-disinformation-digital-communicators-network

Lisa Page bombshell: FBI couldn’t prove Trump-Russia collusion before Mueller appointment | TheHill

To date, Lisa Page’s infamy has been driven mostly by the anti-Donald Trump text messages she exchanged with fellow FBI agent Peter Strzok as the two engaged in an affair while investigating the president for alleged election collusion with Russia. Yet, when history judges the former FBI lawyer years from now, her most consequential pronouncement may not have been typed on her bureau-issued Samsung smartphone to her colleague and lover.
— Read on thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller

Google Rep incites Violence

This week Reddit banned its QAnon sub thread – “The Great Awakening”. Amidst the news this week via a leaked video of Google employees sharing their lamentations and grief over the election of Donald Trump and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter admitting that employees with conservative views are encouraged to not discuss them – we now find this apology from a Google employee for promoting violence against Republicans.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with state governors this week, who are already litigating social media suppression and bias to begin looking into how our social media giants have been meddling in elections by suppressing voices and thwarting search results to favor left-leaning candidates (with a vivid example of how Hillary Clinton is viewed on Google).

Interesting coming on the heels of an executive order signed this week by President Trump that will impose sanctions on any entity who is found to be meddling in the upcoming US elections.