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Missinforamation warfare

  • Writer: erik biserovv
    erik biserovv
  • Nov 6
  • 2 min read
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How a Simple Fact-Checking Extension Became the Front Line Defense Against Modern Information Warfare? We're no longer fighting simple spam or obvious scams. We're fighting an invisible war where the battlefield is your browser, the weapons are pixels and algorithms, and the casualties are truth itself.


Situation 1:


In February 2022, a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky surfaced online, showing him supposedly ordering his troops to surrender to Russia. The video was crude by today's standards—a digital mask poorly superimposed over another person's face—yet it still managed to spread across social media platforms before being debunked. Within hours, millions had seen it. Thousands believed it. The psychological damage was done before fact-checkers could mobilize Situation 2: We need real-time protection! Consider what happened during the 2024 elections across Europe. Researchers documented over fifteen thousand coordinated disinformation campaigns, each one leveraging AI-generated content that would have taken human teams months to produce. These weren't crude memes or obvious propaganda—they were sophisticated operations that understood local politics, spoke in native languages with regional dialects, and exploited cultural touchpoints that only insiders would recognize. A fake video showed a Bulgarian politician supposedly accepting a bribe. An AI-generated audio clip featured a Polish official making racist remarks. Synthetic news articles, indistinguishable from legitimate journalism, spread conspiracy theories about election fraud. Each piece of content was crafted to trigger emotional responses, bypass critical thinking, and spread virally before anyone could verify its authenticity. Traditional fact-checkers were overwhelmed, arriving hours or days after the damage was done, publishing corrections that reached a fraction of the audience who saw the original lies. The solution: Fact-it! Real-time media scanner while you scroll. With interactive interface brings enlightenment to users' vision and brings attention to the modern misinformation warfare. https://github.com/erike123/Fact-it-Open-Beta-




If you share the same vision, don't hesitate to join discord community or contact me - linkedin, X Looking further to building a strong community for defending modern warfare!

 
 
 

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