Michel Martin, Texas Public Radio; Digital Threats On 2020 Elections
"Siva Vaidhyanathan has been writing about these concerns. He is a
professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. We spoke
earlier about why he thinks digital democracy will face its greatest
test in 2020."
"MARTIN: Do you have a sense of, you know, based on your research and
that of others, whether there is some throughline to these groups that
are engaging in these disinformation campaigns around the world? Like,
what's their end goal? Do we - is there, say, a single source or a few
sources - is there anything - you know, what do we know?
VAIDHYANATHAN:
There doesn't seem to be a single source, but there seems to be
thematic coherence. In other words, if there is an extreme authoritarian
political force in the Philippines - and there is - and there's an
extreme authoritarian political force in Ukraine - let's say trying to
be imposed from across the border in Russia - those forces are going to
learn from each other. It's very easy to mimic the strategy of another
one. So what it means is if you're of that ilk, if you want to disrupt
democracy and undermine any form of governance that might support the
rule of law and limit corruption, et cetera, you are going to try to
flood the political sphere with nonsense, with stuff that will divide
society, stuff that will turn people against each other, especially
against minorities or against immigrants."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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