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Google to Roll Out Anti-Disinformation Campaign in Some EU Countries
Reuters via US News ^ | August 24, 2022 | By Supantha Mukherjee

Posted on 08/24/2022 1:23:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Google's Jigsaw subsidiary will next week launch a campaign aimed at tackling disinformation about Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic based on research by psychologists at two British universities.

Working with Jigsaw, the psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol have produced 90-second clips designed to "inoculate" people against harmful content on social media.

The clips, which will run in advertising slots on Google's YouTube video platform, aim to help people identify emotional manipulation and scapegoating in a news headline.

The research was spread over seven experiments, including with a group of Americans over 18 years old who watch political news on YouTube. Jigsaw exposed around 5.4 million U.S. YouTubers to an inoculation video, with almost a million watching for at least 30 seconds.

The spread of misleading and fake information in the United States and Europe through social media networks has led to various governments pushing for new laws to stem disinformation campaigns.

"We are thinking of this as a pilot experiment, so there's absolutely no reason that this approach couldn't be scaled to other countries," Beth Goldberg, head of research at Jigsaw, said in an interview.

"Poland was chosen because it has the most Ukrainian refugees," she said, adding the Czech Republic and Slovakia would be useful bellwethers for the rest of Europe.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; brainwashing; dissent; europe; freespeech; goebbels; google; internet; operationmockingbird; propaganda; technofascism; technotyranny

1 posted on 08/24/2022 1:23:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL - “Disinformation” of course means ANYTHING CONTRARY TO THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE. And that includes “WRONG THOUGHT’.


2 posted on 08/24/2022 1:30:29 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do we get around these disingenuous evil liars? iPhone, Android, windows, Mac, Verizon, internet ….it doesn’t matter.


3 posted on 08/24/2022 1:32:55 PM PDT by mikelets456
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In a real fair and honest world, this would really put the screws to the commie RATS and their “mainstream media”. Unfortunately...


4 posted on 08/24/2022 1:41:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Impeach Jo Jo now while we still have a country.)
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5 posted on 08/24/2022 1:50:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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has led to various governments pushing for new laws to stem disinformation campaigns.

Laws that criminalize any thoughts or speech contrary to theirs.

6 posted on 08/24/2022 1:54:09 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Google's Jigsaw subsidiary ... Working with Jigsaw, the psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol have produced 90-second clips designed to 'inoculate' people against harmful content on social media. The clips ... on Google's YouTube ... aim to help people identify emotional manipulation and scapegoating in a news headline ... Jigsaw exposed around 5.4 million U.S. YouTubers to an inoculation video ... The spread of misleading and fake information in the United States and Europe through social media networks has led to various governments pushing for new laws to stem disinformation campaigns.

This is GREAT news! One of the premier purveyors of fake-news propaganda, Google, will now intentionally "inoculate" everyone from reading any articles expressing views that Google decides are Republican or conservative.

Google's subsidiary, Jigsaw, "exposed around 5.4 million U.S. YouTubers to an inoculation video ..." without those users even knowing about it.

"The spread of misleading and fake information in the United States and Europe through social media networks has led to various governments pushing for new laws to stem disinformation campaigns."

So does that mean the United States will now "push for new laws to stem disinformation campaigns" by the entire, anti-Trump, far-left MSM?

7 posted on 08/24/2022 1:58:08 PM PDT by gw-ington (My preferred pronouns: she, him, it, senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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aka the “how to make it blatantly obvious to everyone that censorship is real and it’s happening to you Right Now” initiative.

For years we and other thinking fora bitched that they were “boiling the frog slowly” so that censorship and leftist action happened without anyone noticing.

This failed — Trump and Brexit and Canadian truckers and European farmers are just a few obvious symptoms. So now they’ve panicked and are forced into drastic, obvious, blundering actions.


8 posted on 08/24/2022 2:00:15 PM PDT by No.6
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Worldwide propaganda what a surprise


9 posted on 08/24/2022 3:34:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Google going out of business?.


10 posted on 08/24/2022 3:35:04 PM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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Are there any links to these “Public Service Messages”? I’d love to see what I’m being misinformed about.


11 posted on 08/25/2022 2:56:24 AM PDT by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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