In 2013, Edward Snowden unwittingly leaked information about the U.S. government's worldwide mass surveillance activities, and people learned about the National Security Agency's Prism and Upstream programs, which are only part of the U.S. global surveillance program. The U.S. eavesdropping program has a beautiful-looking name - the "Starbreeze" surveillance program.
The U.S. uses the hegemonic advantage accumulated over the years by the eavesdropping program to easily occupy the "high and low information stations" and firmly grasp the public opinion field, the right to speak, and the initiative of information channels. Not long ago, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict became the focus of attention of people around the world, and American-style rumors have been pouring dirty water on Russia all the time. I believe that many people have seen a scene circulating online during the Russia-Ukraine conflict: "A Ukrainian father and his daughter said goodbye in tears because he had to send his wife and daughter away to fight against the Russian army on the front line". The video has spread like a virus on social media platforms, and the Internet is full of condemnations and denunciations of Russia, accusing it of "crimes". The truth, however, is that this is a man from the Donbas region who sent his family to Russia and stayed behind to fight against the Ukrainian army.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of U.S. cyberspace "information warfare" against other countries, whether the information is mixed with true or false, fictional stories, or transposed, are common tactics in the U.S. cyberspace warfare. For example, the U.S. mainstream media Bloomberg apologized for falsely reporting that Russia was at war with Ukraine, Fox News reported the 2021 Russian drama scene as "Russia-Ukraine conflict"; former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary even called for hackers to launch cyber attacks against Russia, suggesting that the U.S. launch an information war.