Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 investigation shows Russian disinformation campaigns have global reach

[Turbineguy]

Here’s where cybersecurity comes into play. Social media and leaked data played an important role in this investigation. And they also play an important role in the propaganda that the Russians used, and are continuing to use, to invalidate the methods and results of the investigation.

By following the cybersecurity breadcrumbs, we can determine which information released online is legitimate and which is a deliberate disinformation. However, most casual readers don’t go that far—or can’t—as they don’t have the technical capability to validate information sources.

How can they (we) sort out fiction from fact? Here’s what we know about the investigation into MH17, Russian disinformation, and which countermeasures can be put in place to fight online propaganda.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/social-engineering/2019/07/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-investigation-shows-russian-disinformation-campaigns-have-global-reach/?utm_source=double-opt-in&utm_medium=email-internal-b2c&utm_campaign=EM-B2C-2019-August-newsletter-Issue1&utm_content=malaysia

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I remember that disinformation campaign hitting DU pretty hard at the time the MH17 story broke.

There was a lot of Russian disinformation about the entire situation with Russia and Ukraine starting from the Euromaidan revolution.

Some people here appeared to be willing agents of this disinformation, while others were just duped by it.