Disinformation, long used to spread and advance political ideologies, is now being used to damage Western corporations and economies, as reported by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) study, The Future of Disinformation Operations and the Coming War on Brands. The actors and methods employed to influence elections and spread falsehoods to polarize the United States electorate are now being leveraged for economic warfare. Moreover, an economic disinformation industry is emerging in which disinformation services are provided to domestic and foreign threat actors – a trend that the NCRI expects to continue.
To showcase the increase in disinformation campaigns targeting corporations, the NCRI first sought to quantify the scale and structure of the makeup of information operations and conspiracy for 5G technology, which has been targeted by Russia and China, as a means to discredit western 5G technology and promote their own technologies.
With assistance from partners, open-source platform analysis, and NCRI’s flagship platform, Pushshift, NCRI identified over 600,000 articles mentioning 5G published between January of 2019 and July of 2021, with roughly 70,000 from known sources of disinformation. Although the majority of articles mentioning 5G were from trusted sources (CNN, FOX Business, WSJ, etc.), the most cited articles mentioning 5G are from known Russian disinformation sources, including the entities, Global Research and RT, and non-state actors like...
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