Digital Diplomacy

China’s foreign ministry finally starts using Weibo to promote its message to millennials

The official voice of China’s foreign ministry has made its debut on Weibo, one of the country’s biggest social media platforms, as it tries to better connect with younger Chinese, 10 years after the microblogging site first began operations.

Dan Scavino White House Director of Social Media

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Scavino White House Director of Social Media Incumbent Assumed office January 22, 2017 President Donald Trump Preceded by Position established Personal details Born Daniel Scavino Jr. 1976 (age 42–43) Political party Republican Education State University of...

Foreign Service Stereotypes

When I was in college, I longed to travel and get paid to do it. So I asked a family friend—a British businessman—for career...

5G: the real reason behind US attacks on Huawei

The US government argues that Huawei has built “backdoors” in the technology Last night the US Justice Department announced criminal charges against Chinese telecommunications company...

Singapur usvojio zakon protiv lažnih vesti i botovanja

Singapur je usvojio kontroverzni zakon protiv lažnih vesti, koji vlastima omogućava da nalože onlajn platformama, pa čak i privatnim grupama za ćaskanje, da izbrišu ono što se proceni kao neistinita izjava "protiv javnog interesa", kao i da moraju da objave ispravku.

REPORT: Palestinian Group Using Bots To Fake A Boycott Campaign Against Eurovision In Israel

Kassy Dillon, dailywire.com, May 6, 2019; original article contains links image from article Last month, the Israeli government released a report showing that Palestinian groups are using social media “bots” to grow a campaign to boycott Eurovision Song Contest 2019, which will be hosted in Israel. The report, titled “The Big Scam: How BDS is Manipulating Social Media Against Eurovision 2019,” was released by Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis]. According to the report, the investigation into the campaign started in November 2018 and found 166 bots and 41 trolls which are estimated to have reached 10 million Twitter users. The report underscores that it is likely “the number of bots and fake accounts used in this deception scheme is much greater than the findings in this report.” In the report, bots are defined as “an account whose content is created by human operators and is proliferated automatically by software.” Trolls are defined as “an active..

Diplomats versus politicians

Amidst the Trump-Kim Summit and a vomit of commentary on ‘presidential diplomacy’, ‘face-to-face diplomacy’, ‘summit diplomacy’ and even ‘Trumpian diplomacy’, we’ve somehow come to...

Istražite prvi post koji je CIA postavila na Instagram

I spy with my little eye... Centralna obaveštajna agencija (CIA) otkrila je bar delić tajanstvenosti postavivši prvi post na Instagramu, pozivajući sve koji žele da...

What Is Democracy When Twitter Decides Who Speaks To The President?

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of democracy in the digital era is the degree to which the conversations between elected officials and those they...

Twitter Verified A Russian Government Account In Crimea And Ukraine Is Pissed

A Twitter account for Russia’s Foreign Ministry outpost in Crimea has been verified by Twitter, sparking a complaint from several countries that object to...