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This is an interesting aspect of information warfare. Several companies have emerged that know how to capitalize on their ability to seed social media groups an

This is an interesting aspect of information warfare. Several companies have emerged that know how to capitalize on their ability to seed social media groups and create viral trends. You could have a set of trends that are calculated to cause maximum harm to local eco systems. Location based serving makes it easy to disseminate these campaigns to exact locations. This is an incredibly potent weapon and seems it's been flying under the radar for quite some time now.

tintedfireglass 4y ago
Now this seems like a dystopian episode of black mirror :O
- pvaldes 4y ago
  Not new. Is happening since thousands of years. They just improved it manipulating dumb children to do the dirt job and take all the risk. The genius part is that children will do it just for a pat in the back.
myself248 4y ago
Location-targeting is the next level, yes. It's been suggested for decades that certain cultural trends are calculated and nurtured to sow division in specific countries. And no matter how much evidence you present, nobody will ever take it seriously.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  Here's a random recent example from last month, Facebook still enabling ongoing genocide via hate speech in targeted ads https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ethiopia-hate-speech/ https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/e... Not their first platform-enabled genocide (that was years ago), and still not doing anything effectively to mitigate it >This isn’t the first time that we have found that Facebook is unable to detect clear examples of hate speech: earlier this year we found that they were unable to detect Burmese language hate speech directed against the Rohingya minority. These genocides are not Facebook incidentally intersecting with the real world and reflecting its reality... These genocides, in how they have succeeded, would not have been possible without Facebook's implicit cooperation. Facebook's profits off the ads responsible for these atrocities, or conversely the lower ad revenue of these so-called second tier countries that are not Facebook's primary focus (I can find this reference again if requested), are a curious incentive to not eagerly take meaningful action
aaron695 4y ago
scifibestfi 4y ago
what companies?
BeefWellington 4y ago
"Let's make the biblical plagues happen artificially" seems like a great new trend, even if we've seen it occur naturally recently. As for that flying under the radar, I suppose that depends on how attentive a person was to the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

tintedfireglass 4y ago

Now this seems like a dystopian episode of black mirror :O

pvaldes 4y ago
Not new. Is happening since thousands of years. They just improved it manipulating dumb children to do the dirt job and take all the risk. The genius part is that children will do it just for a pat in the back.

myself248 4y ago

Location-targeting is the next level, yes. It's been suggested for decades that certain cultural trends are calculated and nurtured to sow division in specific countries. And no matter how much evidence you present, nobody will ever take it seriously.

wahnfrieden 4y ago
Here's a random recent example from last month, Facebook still enabling ongoing genocide via hate speech in targeted ads https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ethiopia-hate-speech/ https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/e... Not their first platform-enabled genocide (that was years ago), and still not doing anything effectively to mitigate it >This isn’t the first time that we have found that Facebook is unable to detect clear examples of hate speech: earlier this year we found that they were unable to detect Burmese language hate speech directed against the Rohingya minority. These genocides are not Facebook incidentally intersecting with the real world and reflecting its reality... These genocides, in how they have succeeded, would not have been possible without Facebook's implicit cooperation. Facebook's profits off the ads responsible for these atrocities, or conversely the lower ad revenue of these so-called second tier countries that are not Facebook's primary focus (I can find this reference again if requested), are a curious incentive to not eagerly take meaningful action

aaron695 4y ago

scifibestfi 4y ago

what companies?

BeefWellington 4y ago

"Let's make the biblical plagues happen artificially" seems like a great new trend, even if we've seen it occur naturally recently. As for that flying under the radar, I suppose that depends on how attentive a person was to the whole Cambridge Analytica fiasco.