I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age.
I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age.
Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.
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It's just basic economics. The amount of power and influence you can generate with a disinformation troll farm dramatically outweighs the cost. It's a high impact, low cost form of geopolitical influence. And it works incredibly well.
It's like saying that bullets and knives being more convenient than bricks for killing people are basic economics.
Doesn't explain why those brownshirt types have guns and knives and kill people on the streets, while you don't have those, and the police doesn't shoot them, and more than that, they'd arrest you were you to do something to brownshirts.
What I wanted to take from this bad analogy is that the systems are designed for troll farms to work, and not vice versa. Social media are an instrument to impose governments' will upon population. There are things almost all governments converge on, so the upsides of such existing outweigh the downsides.
Our world is dangerous.
You make it sound like everyone should be doing it. We could also save a lot of money invested into courts and prisons if we just executed suspects the state deemed guilty.
Can we open the farm that convinces people to stop listening to farms?
The trace buster buster BUSTER!
That's my word, playa!
You are awesome. Can't believe someone picked up that reference.
That movie probably didn't age well, but it's a gem
These are called schools and universities and whatnot.
You mean the "radical liberal elite" that are "indoctrinating our children" and secretly control our country????
Potayto, potahto, all depends on which reality you choose to inhabit.
No, only the farm that convinces people to listen to other farm(s). And those already exist, anyway :(
Everyone is doing it. What are you even talking about. You can't unfuck the chicken.