The Russian Satellite News Agency and TASS reported on the 27th that Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, criticized France's new principles on dealing with information attacks, saying that Paris' statement on this issue caused serious concerns.
Zakharova Source: People's Vision
Zakharova said: "It seems that no one has dared to declare so openly their intention to turn the information space into a battlefield." France has officially begun the process of militarizing social networks, transforming the auxiliary tools of 'traditional' military propaganda into a separate weapon. Considering that some experts already believe that the world's means of information and propaganda are comparable to weapons of mass destruction, not in terms of lethality, at least in terms of scale, the Paris statement can only raise serious concerns. ”
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated that on October 20, French Defense Minister Florence Parly said at a conference in Paris that "the information space has become a venue for strategic competition." According to her, "military operations are no longer isolated from social networks because what happens there actually affects those operations." She vowed that the French armed forces would "monitor the digital space associated with military operations" and use a variety of methods to make it possible to "confuse opponents." The French defense minister assured that France would implement all these measures and "strictly control them so that they are in conformity with French principles and values".
French Defense Minister Florence Parley Image source: People's Vision
Zakharova noted that it was unclear whether Paris had informed the big tech companies that "from now on they will be a battleground, and that Western thought values freedom and pluralism the most," and that it is unclear how oscem and human rights activists will react to the document.
(Editor: ZLQ)