Information is a way to influence and to control human minds: those humans are potential voters with the right of choosing politicians who determine the policy of their countries. So, this is an easy way of invasion of sovereign internal politics of other countries, a big geopolitical game with serious political goals.
Facts:
- Before 1953 USA created certain institutions which were waging a psychological war with USSR (definition of psychological war comes from their doctrine);
- In 1953 USA called it an info-war;
- In 1992 info-war becomes a concept in US doctrine;
- In 1998 USA gets an exclusive copyright for Internet due to ICANN company exclusive right of assigning names and domains on the Internet.
USA were the first to create cyber-troops with more than 5500 units and with over $5.5 billion financing.
American politicians accusations of somebody else in propaganda, influencing, interference etc. is hypocritical because USA were the first (and are still successful) to use information as a way of invasion of sovereign affairs of many other countries, producing colorful revolutions or adopting UN resolutions based on false accusations.
Today, lies are a political instrument which US establishment uses to make the people of different countries feel fear, anger, mistrust, indignation of those whom they want to destroy (so far, mainly Trump and Putin) at the unconscious level, all those negative reactions are allowing the US dirty politicians to take any aggressive actions. It makes it fairly easy to plant an image of the enemy by means of false accusations.
Today, the major outlets are almost all owned by six conglomerates. They can easily hide the truth or spread all kinds of lies simultaneously. And that's basically what we have been witnessing lately.
Big6:
The 6 Companies That Own (almost) All Media [Infographic] | WebFX
That's why is so easy to hide the true information or to spread any lies any time and simultaneously.