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It's far from that. Didn't Google report thousands of hours of YouTube videos created? Combine this with disinformation on Twitter, Facebook, and less transpare

It's far from that. Didn't Google report thousands of hours of YouTube videos created? Combine this with disinformation on Twitter, Facebook, and less transparent media like 4chan and Reddit, and the sheer amount of person hours spent impersonating Americans pushing one talking point or another can have a profound effect. The problem with Correct the Record was, other than an extremely shortsighted objective, the fact that everyone knew about it. People who legitimately defended Hillary Clinton were assumed to be shills, to be "correcting the record" and this backfired tremendously. Keep that in mind with these releases. The advertising dollars aren't the major news. It's the sock puppets and vote/conversation manipulation that are by far the largest component of the disinformation campaign. Those costs won't be public, either.

shpx 9y ago
"We found 18 [Youtube] channels likely associated with this campaign that made videos publicly available, in English and with content that appeared to be political (These channels also posted non-political videos, e.g., personal travelogues). There were 1,108 such videos uploaded, representing 43 hours of content and totaling 309,000 U.S. views from June 2015 to November 2016. These videos generally had very low view counts; only around 3 percent had more than 5,000 views. These channels’ videos were not targeted to the U.S. or to any particular sector of the U.S. population."
- AaronFriel 9y ago
  That seems like a low count of channels, videos, and hours, does that include the content existing channels were paid to create? e.g.: the divisive messaging on Black Lives Matter, where the Internet Research Agency was found to have paid existing content creators to post messages for or against the organization.

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It's far from that. Didn't Google report thousands of hours of YouTube videos created? Combine this with disinformation on Twitter, Facebook, and less transpare

by AaronFriel 9y ago

shpx 9y ago
"We found 18 [Youtube] channels likely associated with this campaign that made videos publicly available, in English and with content that appeared to be political (These channels also posted non-political videos, e.g., personal travelogues). There were 1,108 such videos uploaded, representing 43 hours of content and totaling 309,000 U.S. views from June 2015 to November 2016. These videos generally had very low view counts; only around 3 percent had more than 5,000 views. These channels’ videos were not targeted to the U.S. or to any particular sector of the U.S. population."
- AaronFriel 9y ago
  That seems like a low count of channels, videos, and hours, does that include the content existing channels were paid to create? e.g.: the divisive messaging on Black Lives Matter, where the Internet Research Agency was found to have paid existing content creators to post messages for or against the organization.