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Critics Say Iranian AI Disinformation Stories Justify Surveillance
Original: "Iranian AI disinformation" stories launder the surveillance state. This narrative that foreigners poison media with # A
Commenters are arguing that coverage of Iranian AI-generated disinformation serves to legitimise expanded surveillance. The claim is that framing foreign actors as poisoning media with AI builds public support for collecting mass data to detect such campaigns, infrastructure that critics say is then turned against domestic populations. They add that platforms flagging coordinated behaviour train on data gathered under these justifications.
Why now: Debate over AI disinformation and government surveillance powers is active, and critics see the foreign-threat narrative as a pretext for data collection.
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Evidence
- "Iranian AI disinformation" stories launder the surveillance state. This narrative that foreigners poison media with # AI and its purported solution: "Collect ALL data to detect it" builds the infrastructure suppressing us. Platforms flagging coordinated behavior also train on… · dheepsinque@susanklopfertruth.com · 2
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