Learn how people are manipulated online with Breaking Harmony Square

Learn how people are manipulated online with Breaking Harmony Square

Source: Harmony Square Harmony Square is a free online game financially supported by The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with DROG and the University of Cambridge. The game puts the player in the role of community disinformation officer….

Teaching kids how to run disinformation campaigns so they can recognize them

Teaching kids how to run disinformation campaigns so they can recognize them

Russia’s disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential election rocked social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to their core. Now, kids attending the Defcon conference are learning how to create their own bot army. But the organizers behind the r00tz Asylum, Defcon’s kid-friendly event, say there’s no cause for alarm. The goal isn’t to launch a new flurry…