MOSCOW, 23 June (BelTA) – Information technology and social media have become a new weapon, Belarus' Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said at a plenary session of the 9th Moscow Conference on International Security on 23 June, BelTA has learned.
Viktor Khrenin noted that it has become obvious that transnational corporations and the states lobbying the interests and being under control of these corporations seek to dominate the cyberspace. “Cyberspace is getting militarized and becoming an arena of military confrontation. In fact, information technology has become a modern type of weapon. Social media and networking services are becoming an effective tool for running color revolutions and destroying states. It is no coincidence that countries that understand this are looking for ways to establish control over Facebook, Google, Twitter, Telegram. The security threat coming from these corporations is becoming too big,” he said.
The minister emphasized that transnational elites are trying to address their tasks, using, first of all, the states and state institutions under their control as a strike force.
Taking part in the 9th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS 2021) are defense ministers, chiefs of general staffs, delegations of defense ministries from 109 countries as well as representatives of international organizations – the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the United Nations Organization (UN), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the League of Arab States. Participants of the conference are expected to discuss problems of global and regional stability, various aspects of security in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
