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'Soviet disinformation in Indian newspaper echoed for decades' (Book Review)

By IANS | Updated: September 29, 2020 21:35 IST

New Delhi, Sep 29 The Soviets used an Indian newspaper in 1983 to spread disinformation that the AIDS ...

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New Delhi, Sep 29 The Soviets used an Indian newspaper in 1983 to spread disinformation that the AIDS virus had been invented by the US military as a "biological weapon to kill black and gay men" and this echoed for decades. There's greater sophistication today, says a new book on the threat to democracy and personal liberty from fake news generated by Advanced AI technology, with Russia fine-tuning the concept in this age of the Infocalypse, which the author defines as the "increasingly dangerous and untrustworthy ecosystem within which most humans now live".

"Before we get to the Russian disinformation of the Infocalypse, let's look at one of the old Soviet campaigns, usually referred to as Operation Infektion," Nina Schick writes in "Deep Fakes and the Infocalpyse - What You Urgently Need To Know"

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