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What part of that sounds like BS? We know they have industrial scale operations to post propaganda now. [1] Obviously this had to start somewhere. I'm pretty
by QuotedForTruth 8y ago
What part of that sounds like BS?
We know they have industrial scale operations to post propaganda now. [1] Obviously this had to start somewhere. I'm pretty sure many intelligence agencies have been researching how information spread on the internet ever since it was created.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-troll-factory.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-troll...
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoThe US has been running its own industrial propaganda machine since at least the end of WWII. Carl Bernstein and other journalists uncovered a number of "influencer" and cutout operations in the late 70s which placed CIA-sourced stories in the supposedly respectable and independent mainstream media. The line between honest journalism, state propaganda, and fake news has always been a very porous one. In fact there are different propaganda modalities for different demographics. Rather like advertising - if you think a message is transparent, clumsy, and ridiculous, that doesn't mean you're clever enough to be immune to manipulation, it means you're not the target audience for it.