PGI’s Digital Investigations Team brings you the Digital Threat Digest, SOCMINT and OSINT insights into disinformation, influence operations, and online harms. Why are we here? Sometimes I think about the fact that my job relies on the existence of bad people doing bad things online. I also struggle to understand why people do this – why are people just consistently out there to push hate and lies. I’ve been angry at how casually racism, homophobia, and sexism is shared simply because an actor thinks this is the ‘truth’. Recently, I’ve had to reframe this anger a) because I have shouted at my screen too many times for it to be normal and b) because there has to be a deeper reason why people do bad things. I have shifted to being genuinely interested in how people find logical reasoning behind what they do online and from a behavioural point of view, it is fascinating to see how this reflects human nature.
Digital Threat Digest - 1 September 2022
Digital Threat Digest - 1 September 2022
Digital Threat Digest - 1 September 2022
PGI’s Digital Investigations Team brings you the Digital Threat Digest, SOCMINT and OSINT insights into disinformation, influence operations, and online harms. Why are we here? Sometimes I think about the fact that my job relies on the existence of bad people doing bad things online. I also struggle to understand why people do this – why are people just consistently out there to push hate and lies. I’ve been angry at how casually racism, homophobia, and sexism is shared simply because an actor thinks this is the ‘truth’. Recently, I’ve had to reframe this anger a) because I have shouted at my screen too many times for it to be normal and b) because there has to be a deeper reason why people do bad things. I have shifted to being genuinely interested in how people find logical reasoning behind what they do online and from a behavioural point of view, it is fascinating to see how this reflects human nature.