Identify and combat sabotage tricks in cyberspace

The strong development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution brings many benefits but also brings enormous challenges to countries and peoples around the world .

Taking advantage of cyberspace, hostile forces have stepped up activities to sabotage the Vietnamese revolution. The activities of anti-government organizations are organized quite tightly and systematically. Their consistent goal is to spread propaganda, call for gatherings, protests, riots, disrupt public order, and carry out the plot of " peaceful evolution" to sabotage the stability and development of the country. Most reactionary organizations build social network accounts and organize into a system of anti-government communication channels.

According to statistics from the authorities, on average, every month there are tens of thousands of articles and videos on the internet and social networks with content related to Vietnam, of which a large proportion of articles and videos have content distorting and opposing our country's revolution (about 67% of articles are spread on Facebook, the rest are spread on Youtube, personal blogs or reactionary news channels).

Through the practical situation in the country, it can be seen that the sabotage plots of hostile, reactionary and opportunistic political forces in cyberspace still basically focus on a number of contents, such as: Distorting and undermining the ideological foundation, distorting the Party's guidelines and State's policies; causing internal conflicts, attacking, defaming and discrediting high-ranking leaders of the Party and State, through social media to call for and incite protests, causing insecurity, disorder and social safety. Inciting sabotage activities of a number of opposing subjects criticizing Vietnam for violating democracy, human rights and "Internet freedom", encouraging these subjects to fight more fiercely by awarding awards, nominating honors or putting Vietnam on the list of "enemies of the Internet", violating democracy, freedom and human rights.

Identify and combat sabotage tricks in cyberspace

Resolutely fight against plots and tricks to sabotage the Party and State in cyberspace.

To carry out the above sinister plot, reactionary and hostile elements often use the following tricks: Using social media accounts with large interactions or organizing media campaigns to disseminate information. Posting documents, information, and comments that lead public opinion to view them in a distorted way; citing information sources from mainstream media, mixing real and fake information, and distorting the domestic political situation. Building many information channels on cross-border platforms that are interconnected; especially developing media channels in ethnic minority languages (Mong, Khmer, etc.) aimed at the propaganda target of ethnic minorities.

Promoting the subversive and prejudiced thoughts of some people who show signs of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation"; spreading and sensationalizing the articles of these subjects on the Internet and social networks. Taking advantage of the personal interests of a part of the people in resolving land issues, economic cases... to incite and attract people to participate in disruptive activities, causing political insecurity on social networks, thereby spreading and realizing them on the ground... Using the "information gap" to attack the public's curiosity; before the conclusion of the competent authority, massively spreading distorted news articles, distorting the truth, directing public opinion through "sensational" and "clickbait" titles.

Attracting and luring people into organizations; infiltrating forums and social networks for young people to discover and attract leads; using online communication to connect, train and direct reactionary bases in the field. Using social media to deceive and entice people, forming and publicizing organizations disguised as civil society organizations or social criticism organizations.

Along with that, they take advantage of political, economic, military events... in the world (Russia-Ukraine military conflict, military coup in Niger...), important political events of the country, economic cases, activities to assert sovereignty over seas, islands, borders... to cite information sources from the mainstream press, mixing real and fake information; distorting the political, social, economic situation in the country and at times organizing propaganda activities to sabotage into "campaigns" in many forms.

Taking advantage of limitations and shortcomings in content censorship management on social networking platforms to propagate distortions; taking advantage of social networking policies to establish thousands of reactionary political groups and organizations, including public and secret groups with a large number of members, luring, attracting, and inviting members to participate, operating with specific directions, principles, and purposes. Creating fake websites and social networking accounts of state agencies, leaders, and influential individuals... to post reactionary information; distorting and taking advantage of people's curiosity and lack of understanding of a segment of people to incite the online community to participate in spreading bad and toxic information.

Faced with the increasingly complex developments in cyberspace, along with the organized, sophisticatedly planned and executed sabotage activities of hostile forces, reactionary, opposing, and opportunistic political subjects, we believe it is necessary to implement the following solutions:

Firstly, using official information plays a leading role in orienting public opinion. Departments and organizations from the central to local levels, and press agencies need to promote their role in providing timely and accurate official information, avoiding creating information gaps for reactionary elements to exploit and spread distorted information, so that people of all walks of life can access official information before accessing reactionary information. The system of communication channels at all levels from the central to local levels needs to be built synchronously, with close links between communication channels to create a great influence on public opinion.

Second, improve the effectiveness of coordination and cooperation. Close coordination and cooperation between forces inside and outside the Army have strengths in fighting against erroneous views in cyberspace and in the press. In which, the force of the Ministry of Information and Communications takes the lead in proposing to build and perfect the legal system with a coordination mechanism between competent authorities and social network service providers, requiring proper implementation in accordance with Vietnamese law, cooperation in eliminating negative information, bad and toxic information affecting the strategic task of building and protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam; coordinate with the forces of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security to provide and exchange information, resolutely fight against and strictly handle subjects who take advantage of the Internet and social networks to organize activities to spread fake news, false information that is harmful to sovereignty, territory, national and ethnic interests.

Third, research and develop the application of information technology in combat activities. Build and effectively exploit the focus of information technology research in each field, from which to have a plan to deploy communication tasks, fight against bad information to ensure methodicality, accuracy and efficiency. Continue to research solutions, apply the power of science and information technology to enhance the ability to monitor, grasp and supervise the situation; support the management and evaluation of the quality of forms of struggle. Research, develop content, build an information database system to serve the activities of eliminating fake news, false and toxic information.

Build a synchronous command and control channel system from the command to the implementation level, a communication channel between the forces participating in the fight. The system allows the organization of tasks to eradicate fake news, false and harmful information on the Internet and social networks, and is also a channel for implementing officers to share experiences on how to organize and handle harmful information. Equip the fighting force with modern systems to monitor and detect information, promptly detect distorted information before it is spread to many social network accounts reaching a large number of online communities.

Fourth, raise awareness and the role of cadres, party members and the masses in exploiting and using the Internet and social networks. Cadres, party members, civil servants, and public employees, especially key cadres at all levels, heads of localities, agencies and units, should further raise awareness, role, responsibility, pioneering, and exemplary role in exploiting and using the Internet and social networks. Promote the effectiveness and practicality of using social networks to propagate and mobilize people to well implement the Party's policies and the State's laws and policies, and to convey and spread positive factors, exemplary models, good people, good deeds, cultural and humanistic values, and the spirit of mutual love and affection of the nation and people. At the same time, actively fight against false, reactionary, and fabricated information on social networks, criticize and oppose acts of taking advantage of the Internet and social networks to share, inform, comment, and post offensive images, lack responsibility, and be indifferent and insensitive to the difficulties and losses of the people.

Ta Ngoc (According to qdnd.vn)

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