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Hostile State Disinformation in the Internet Age - Richard A. Clarke

12 Aug 2024

With the global rise of the inter- net came the morphing of news media, the creation and rapid mass adoption of so- cial media, and now the introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), complete with fake news and synthetic personas. [...] Influence operations: A campaign by a state actor to cause a foreign audience to support the policies of the state actor or to oppose the policies of an oppos- ing state; the campaign may include bribery of foreign officials or media person- nel, the spread of disinformation, propagation of truthful stories that support the image of the state actor or damage the image of another nation, foreign de. [...] The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 (repealed in 1921) were written, passed, and enforced to deal with foreign and do- mestic antiwar and antidraft activities.11 The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act, which expanded the government’s authority to limit criticism of the war, were challenged many times for their con- stitutionality. [...] If the president finds that a covert “action is necessary to support identifiable foreign policy ob- jectives of the United States and is important to the national security of the Unit- ed States,” and so notifies the designated members of Congress, the president may direct intelligence agencies to carry out appropriate activities without public acknowledgment.43 Under such a “finding,” intelligen. [...] Following the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s direct reference to TikTok as a possible threat to national security, Congress passed a measure to outlaw the platform in the United States.

Authors

Richard A. Clarke

Related Organizations

New York Times
University of Pennsylvania
Pages
20
Published in
United States of America

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