Black Hat: Public Opinion Hacking Hits Fever Pitch
More research on public opinion hacking is needed to inform policymakers.
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If you’ve retweeted or shared a provocative meme or unconfirmed information about COVID-19, you could be enabling public opinion hacking.
Public opinion hacking has hit a fever pitch and should intensify even more leading up to the November general election.
This week’s virtual Black Hat USA 2020 conference featured a keynote on how information operations are working overtime to manipulate public opinion. Renee DiResta, research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, heads up research in this area.
Jeff Moss, Black Hat founder and director, said there’s not enough research on public opinion hacking to inform policymakers and “tell us what to do about it.”