Microsoft has formed a new alliance with other tech giants, the Content Origin and Authenticity Alliance (C2PA), to monitor the spread of “disinformation,” but critics argue that this approach will functionally undermine privacy.
According to a post by Eric Horvitz, a technology researcher and chief scientific officer at Microsoft, the new alliance was created by companies such as Microsoft, Intel and the BBC, who want to “rebuild trust in digital content through a provenance approach” and “track the evolution of information. “
The question now, critics say, is who decides what is and is not “disinformation” and how that decision is applied.
Allum Bokhari, senior technology correspondent for the conservative Breitbart, wrote in February that there will also be a big question about how the program safeguards privacy.
He said, “Whether it’s a funny picture (meme), an audio mix or a written article, when content reaches the Internet, it comes with a series of signals that make the authorship widely known.”
“According to Microsoft, the coalition was created for a single purpose: to stop the spread of ‘disinformation,’ which in modern corporate press conferences is just the way they tell things,” based on the fact that today, so-called disinformation can also be The so-called disinformation can also be called “dissident information” based on today’s situation.
Bockarie further noted that the coalition’s “predecessor” was Project Origin, which included media outlets such as The New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio-Canada and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Project Origin’s statement said, “Misinformation poses a growing threat to the integrity of the information ecosystem. Having a certifiable media source and knowing it hasn’t been tampered with along the way will help maintain confidence in news from trusted providers.”
Bockarie said the mainstream media is trying to create an environment where only their own news is marked as “credible” and competing facts or narratives are marked as untrustworthy.
We all know what that means now,” he says. The difference is that instead of doing it through social media platforms and search engine censorship, they are now going to do it at the offline software and hardware level, most likely down to the most basic unit of computer hardware – the CPU”, “in other words, there’s nowhere to hide. “
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