Need to spread some disinformation all over the world? A Russian company apparently has a quick and easy recipe for that.
“SANA provides for the creation of social media persona accounts, including email and phone number provisioning. In addition, the system provides facilities for creating these newsbreaks on a schedule or reactive basis,” the report notes.
An apparent real-world example of the deployment of SANA shows the ways in which this manipulation could potentially influence news and media coverage. Nisos writes that, weirdly, the suite was used to pelt ridicule at a large wooden squirrel sculpture that was erected in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2018.
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