Abstract

The world today is an infinite collection of data. People try to discover and make meaningful data and turn it into information according to their needs. Meanwhile, governments are increasingly competing in the production and use of this information. However, along with the progress that has been made in this realm, problems such as information pollution are increasingly emerging. Information pollution is one of the powerful tools of governments to penetrate the body of other countries and influence them through information warfare; For this reason, every country tries to have the power of attack and at the same time strong defense against hostile governments, based on information warfare. In this article, after reviewing information pollution and its two-way role in attacking and defensing, the methods of information pollution and how this pollution affects the information war in todays world are discussed. This study shows that information pollution is one of the most important factors that threatens the information bases of any country by building a platform for information warfare. Therefore, the experts should look for solutions to safely pass through information pollution and, if it occurs, minimize its effects and increase the security of data and information of the system and the organization.

Keywords: Information, information pollution, information warfare, domination system.

  Download Full Text