> Where are the disclosing of state-linked information operations linked to USA, UK, or France?
Government-run accounts are already visibly marked as such. The US, UK, France or most Western nations don't need to resort to dirty, "undercover" operations as there are way more than enough people to spread our respective governments' position.
Wow, do you really believe that? Snowden's claims directly contradict that. Not to mention, in a broader sense, the US army's massive propaganda efforts (e.g. paying for Hollywood to exclusively portray them in an excellent light, with revision rights for the final edit for any film that accesses any of these resources).
Snowden's data, however, does not describe a troll-farm to influence public political opinion in another country, like, say, Russia did when promoting Brexit on the English internet.
It is very likely they do this though. But they seem to focus on amplifying truths and correcting the record. PR opinion on Uyghur concentration camps has exploded, just order Reddit frontpage by most popular posts. Does not look entirely natural. But those concentration camps likely do exist, the media without access to intelligence agencies just was not writing about them.
And of course, the US being an exporter of culture, European countries follow suit. Nasty, when the views exported are the result of an information-warfare attack.
No he means stuff like the Hong Kong protests semi-robotic stream of inane content maybe ? Like I know americans are a bit like adult babies and it may not be inauthentic state run accounts, but the speed and amount of disinformation on twitter vs what happened in reality was like wow, everyone around me in HK is basically like "ofc it was a CIA attempt, look at how fast it stopped", which may be exagerated but...
Like I had a german friend, who barely comes to HK once a year as a tourist, send demands to... american senators (!!!!) to sanction HK representatives. I was like wtf the amount of disinformation do they receive to be so extreme and how does it make sense that a tourist send to a foreign government that kind of panicked demand like we were dying of starvation under the beatings of the Chinese or what :D
It seems weird to claim that your friend must have been fooled by government bots. Maybe he just was influenced by the huge anti-CCP demonstrations in HK.
I don't think the "adult babies" phrase adds much to the conversation, btw.
Government-run accounts are already visibly marked as such. The US, UK, France or most Western nations don't need to resort to dirty, "undercover" operations as there are way more than enough people to spread our respective governments' position.