Disinformation Attacks News Today

from the u.s. on the tragedy. well be right back. well be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, everyone. welcome to msnbc special coverage of the rebellion in russia. i am ayman mohyeldin in new york. more than 24 hours after a russian mercenary chief ordered his forces to end the revolt and retweet from their march toward moscow, many questions still remain about vladimir putins grip on power, about the future of the war in ukraine, and about the impact of this crisis on stability across t...

leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never p...

my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat....

Hes somebody whos been on the radar of the fbi for years, both for what hes done overseas, and certainly what hes tried to do here in the united states with u.s. politics, and interfering in our elections. how much of a threat is he to latimer putin now? how dangerous of a man is he generally? what do we know about him? >> well, ayman, thats a great question. i mean, certainly, prigozhin is known to u.s. law enforcement and the u.s. intelligence community here in the night states, including his ...

Arizona State University's independent student-run news organization covering Tempe, Phoenix, Mesa and Glendale.

To do their exercise and so on. so once we are armed with so—called antibodies of the mind, were less vulnerable to the disinformation attacks. now, in times of cybersecurity attacks, its been pointed out that the submarine cables is one of the vulnerabilities in taiwan, because these are the places that connects us to the world. so learning from ukraine, were now investing around, i think, 15 million usd over the next couple years to build more than 700 mobile or fixed satellite receivers for...

Russian military would be able to destroy them. and if you were flying them from a nato country, thats the equivalent of a no-fly zone. but youre right that the russians see all of this as acts of war. they see the exhibition sanctions as economic war. they see the willingness to provide the weapons that are being provided as an ability to kill more russians and the russians will respond. against nato countries. were going to see cyberattacks from russia against critical infrastructure of nato c...

Eroding trust in our institutions. and theyre going to try to do it again. theyre trying to do that right now. this is straight out of their playpook. theyve been doing it for three decades and we want to make sure we have a strategy that includes the public sector and the private sector in order to make sure were resilient from these future disinformation attacks by 2018. >> that is the heart of it, congressman. i talked to a lot of people who said no votes were swapped. that is a punny part of...

Were in 2017 and really, nothing has changed, even though we saw this happen in 2016. >> yeah, it is amazing. and this is why, i think again, the important thing to know is what do russian disinformation attacks look like? if you see feed on your facebook for instance, or you see a news story that somebody like -- that seems outrageous, it probably is outrageous. it may be a fake news story or disinformation. i think the american people recognizing that is the first step to countering this, and ...