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Isnt this obvious? We live in a hyper-connected world where sentiments can take a dive in a minute when something starts trending. We also live in a world where
by DSingularity 5y ago
Isnt this obvious? We live in a hyper-connected world where sentiments can take a dive in a minute when something starts trending. We also live in a world where every well-funded organization has a propaganda arm.
Take Israeli propagandists as an example. What do you think happens when a hashtag like #SheikhJarrah starts getting attention and activity measured in the thousands per hour? You think they will just ignore these threads? Of course not. Troll networks get notified. Volunteers in all kinds of pro-Israeli organizations are mobilized and directed to specific conversations. Suddenly, it seems like every active thread is getting attacked by personalities each responding with very similar claims and very similar approaches.
I believe this happens across the board and not just with political/ideological issues. You are not going to have an online platform allowing people to share information widely without attracting the interests of propagandists eager to improve/maintain the images of their clients.
- mistermann 5y agoOn the stack exchange podcast back in the day, Joel Spolsky mentioned that there was a desktop messenger style app of some sort where people would post links to forum posts that needed some coordinated correcting of the record on Israeli affairs.
- DSingularity 5y agoYeah. I’m sure there are all kinds of tools today — maybe even publicly accessible. Imagine how this is used today to both distort the facts and and distract the public from topics import to Israeli crimes in Gaza/Jerusalem.