Google Expanding “Prebunking” Campaign in Germany

Google intends to expand its presence in India “prebunking” Campaign to Germany following operational success in Eastern Europe. The campaign was designed to counter the effects of “disinformation,” Experts warn that prebunking could act as censorship.

Prebunking is a legal practice. “scientifically researched communication technique that helps users to recognize and reject future attempts to manipulate them with false information. This helps to increase society’s resilience to disinformation and related narratives and manipulation techniques,” According to an article published by Google February 13, 2013.

Prebunking campaigns frequently use Video clips Explore is a common term “disinformation” According to the company, scaremongering is a technique that can be used. The videos explain certain concepts according to Google’s progressive ideological alignment, like a precautionary education.

Jigsaw, a Google incubator division that studies emerging social challenges is called “successful use” The company stated that it will launch prebunking campaigns in Slovakia and Poland in 2022.

Jigsaw will launch in Germany, which will be second globally. “corresponding campaign.”

Some people question the use of prebunking and point out that it can lead to biases in viewers’ minds.

“Everybody needs to understand the game. We can’t directly target our own citizens tearing down threadbare official statecraft narratives. So destroying our own citizens sharing skepticism, doubt and information becomes ‘Prebunking non-state malinformation,’” Eric Weinstein, managing Director of Thiel Capital wrote in a February 10th tweet.

“Pre-bunking=Preemptive reputational destruction. Non-state=Individuals and Organizations including citizens and non-profits. Malinformation=True things that contradict and cast doubt on gated official narratives.”

Promoting Prebunking

Google reports that prebunking videos were targeted at Eastern Europe. “misleading anti-immigrant narratives” They were viewed over 38 million times. These campaigns were posted on all major social media platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook.

These videos will show you how many viewers are interested in these topics after watching them. “correctly identified” The so-called disinformation techniques as described in the videos increased by 8 percentage points.

Google in Germany intends to use prebunking techniques against manipulation techniques, narratives that are “widespread in this country.” This includes “conscious decontextualization,” To create photos and videos, you can take them out of context. “false narratives.”

The German campaign will commence in the first quarter of 2011.

Google and researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Western Australia conducted an August 2022 study that evaluated prebunking strategies among more than 30,000 participants. These studies were designed to target “inoculating people against manipulation techniques commonly used in misinformation.”

There are many to choose from. “misinformation” The study cites COVID-19 material, which was linked to “reduced willingness to get vaccinated against the disease and lower intentions to comply with public health measures.”

Test results showed that the quality of videos was significantly higher than expected. “manipulation technique recognition” while also raising people’s ability to “discern trustworthy from untrustworthy content.”

“The inoculation effect was consistent across liberals and conservatives. It worked for people with different levels of education, and different personality types,” lead author Dr. Jon Roozenbeek from Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab In a statement.

Google and Online Manipulation

Prebunking isn’t the only tool Google has in its arsenal to manipulate the concept of right and wrong over the internet.

In an interview for EpochTV’s “Crossroads” In January, Zach Vorhies, a whistleblower at Google, revealed that the company was creating artificial intelligence from data it had curated to make sure that it adheres to certain narratives like social justice and leftist values.

“If you want to create an AI that’s got social justice values … you’re going to only feed it information that confirms that bias. So by biasing the information, you can bias the AI,” Vorhies said.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), in a January speech, warned of the dangers that Big Tech poses. He named Google as the culprit. “greatest threat to speech in the market.”

He stated that Google could influence U.S. election results, pointing out that Google had allegedly altered front page results in favor of Democrat candidates.

Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp contributed to this report.