PHISHING, USER ACCOUNT takeovers, and other computing-related threats have made it easy for criminals to deceive people for financial and other gain. It is now considered standard practice for an advanced cyberattack, even a highly technical one, to start in a nontechnical manner: a spearphishing email deceiving an organization’s employees into providing their credentials, a watering hole website infecting their computer, and so on. It is the human that is the initial target, as well as the first line of defense. At the same time, social media has become a dominant, direct, and highly effective form of news generation and sharing at a global scale, in a manner that influences and enhances, but also challenges and often antagonizes, traditional media corporations.

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数字欺骗：网络欺诈和在线错误信息

网络钓鱼、用户帐户接管和其他与计算相关的威胁使犯罪分子很容易欺骗人们以获取经济和其他利益。现在被认为是高级网络攻击的标准做法，即使是技术含量很高的网络攻击，以非技术方式开始：鱼叉式网络钓鱼电子邮件欺骗组织的员工提供他们的凭据，水坑网站感染他们的计算机，等等。人类是最初的目标，也是第一道防线。与此同时，社交媒体已成为全球范围内占主导地位的、直接的、高效的新闻生成和共享形式，其方式影响和增强，但也挑战并经常对抗传统媒体公司。