@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha Thanks, Tim, for making this effort. And I look forward to Carl's points. He is right that we shouldn't trust social media companies so readily. They have shown themselves to be wanting over the recent years. But...
@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha ...on the balance of probabilities, my assessment is that Twitter & FB has made the right call in highlighting Beijing's coordinated, covert misinformation campaign on their platforms against the HK protesters.
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@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha What would take to change my mind? Without getting to philosophical about standards of truth or technical on attribution, here are some:
1. pattern of activity not coordinated
2. genuine people behind these acs
3. not coordinated by state-actor, or state-backed orgs
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1. pattern of activity not coordinated
2. genuine people behind these acs
3. not coordinated by state-actor, or state-backed orgs
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@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha 4. attribution ruled out on balance on analysis
5. any other explanation that would tilt the balance of my assessment in the favour of negative, inc evidence that TW/FB metadata is faulty or that a part of the analysis is demonstrably faulty.
There are others, but I'll stop here
5. any other explanation that would tilt the balance of my assessment in the favour of negative, inc evidence that TW/FB metadata is faulty or that a part of the analysis is demonstrably faulty.
There are others, but I'll stop here
@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha I realise the terms above all need to be defined and agreed to, so happy to do that during the course of this conversation.
Over to you, Carl.
Over to you, Carl.
@Scholars_Stage @CarlZha Also @CarlZha, there are very knowledgable people here on cybersecurity, China's information ops, and other relevant topics that can help us out and correct our misconceptions as we continue this discussion.
