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News | Nov. 15, 2019

Future Geospatial Disinformation Campaigns

By LTC David M. Beskow, Dr. Kathleen M. Carley

Social media is increasingly used as a source of data to provide situational awareness and decision support tools for world events including sporting events, democratic elections, and natural disasters. As this data is increasingly used in these scenarios, it also becomes vulnerable to manipulation. This manipulation can take several forms which have been variously explored. This paper will highlight the vulnerability of future manipulation of social media geospatial data.

 

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