Disinformation, propagated on the internet, influenced last year’s US presidential election. The degree of influence is impossible to gauge with precision, of course, but there is no denying the vast scale of malicious attempts by the Internet Research Agency — a Kremlin-linked troll farm — to sway US public opinion. Revelations on that subject in US congressional hearings this week should give pause to anyone who cares about democracy.
在網路上傳播的虛假資訊,影響了去年的美國總統大選。當然,影響程度無法精確估量,但不可否認的是,一個與克里姆林宮有關聯的「噴子製造廠」(troll farm)——「網路研究機構」(Internet Research Agency),付出了巨大規模的惡意努力,試圖左右美國輿論。最近美國國會聽證會上曝光的情況,應該讓關心民主體制的所有人深思。
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