But malign information manipulators

Every nation seeks to influence audiences in other countries and to convey its values. That is a natural part of diplomacy and public communications. But malign information manipulators do not play by the same rules. They hide their true identities behind false websites, proxy agents, copycat organizations, trolls, bots, and deepfakes, because they know that their audiences will be skeptical if they know that the real source of their information is the Kremlin, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, al-Qaeda, or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)/Da’esh. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference is defined by the U.S. government and by the European Union as “the clandestine use of propaganda and disinformation to create an international information environment conducive to a nation’s policy objectives สล็อต เว็บตรง