Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm'..

Chaz said:
It was a problem before Trump went into politics, and will be a problem long after he returns to private life.
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It really took off starting in 2016.

"In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur. How did the term "fake news" evolve - and what's next in the world of disinformation?

It was mid-2016, and Buzzfeed's media editor, Craig Silverman, noticed a funny stream of completely made-up stories that seemed to originate from one small Eastern European town.

"We ended up finding a small cluster of news websites all registered in the same town in Macedonia called Veles," Silverman recalls.

He and a colleague started to investigate, and shortly before the US election they identified at least 140 fake news websites which were pulling in huge numbers on Facebook. The young people in Veles may or may not have had much interest in American politics, but because of the money to be made via Facebook advertising, they wanted their fiction to travel widely on social media. The US presidential election - and specifically Donald Trump - was (and of course still is) a very hot topic on social media.

And so the Macedonians and other purveyors of fakery wrote stories with headlines such as "Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President" and "FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide".

They were completely false. And thus began the modern - and internet-friendly - life

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320
 
Chaz said:
Well, if you want to ignore all of the threads highlighting fake news antics on this site, then, go nuts.
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The left is all in on propaganda techniques.

1. Control the major sources of information by infiltrating them
2. Use the supposed gravitas of the sources you control to disseminate your agenda and invalidate dissent
3. Establish self-proclaimed "fact-checking" sources to denounce diverse opinions and characterize inconvenient facts as "untruths"

Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud's nephew, an adviser to DEMOCRAT Woodrow Wilson) wrote a book about way to employ propaganda to moldi political attitudes. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” — Propaganda.

When Bernays’ book was written in 1928, the liberal elite caught on to the concept of controlling the masses through manipulating information.

They still do.

Publicly-funded (and compulsory) "free" education began to be utilized for the same purpose. A century ago, the social engineering invented by Bernays' propaganda techniques was controlling the way people thought about things like forced sterilization. The eugenics movement heralded by Margaret Sanger succeeded in legalizing forced sterilization in 30 states in the USA

Bernays wrote, “We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.”

His book is worth a read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Propaganda-Edward-Bernays/dp/0970312598
 
Legion said:
Doubtless she's OK with this, though:

DEMOCRATS are using US military-funded artificial intelligence software to interfere in the election


  1. They monitor conservative discussions on social media
  2. Next, they “Intervene” by algorithmically finding the most popular counter-narratives
  3. Once they find a narrative that works (regardless of accuracy) they boost this counter-narrative via a network of 3.5 million “influencers”
  4. They then pay these “influencers” to distribute the counter-narrative

A new DEMOCRAT-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

General McChrystal is a Trump hater who wanted Hillary Clinton to win the last election.

The group, “Defeat Disinfo”, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president’s claims on social media.

It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country – in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.

“It’s often said campaigns are a battle of ideas, but they’re really a battle of narratives,” said David Eichenbaum, a DEMOCRAT media consultant who is a senior adviser to the PAC. “Today those narratives spread quickly online.”

The initiative is run by Curtis Hougland, whose received initial funding for the technology from DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, as part of an effort to combat extremism overseas.

Hougland also happens to be a board member of “Data for Democracy”, another far-left group.

Hougland also founded far-left “Mainstreet One”. He uses followers in an artificial manner to sway political perceptions: Main Street One, a New York-based intelligence firm which aims to “fix internet discourse” according to its website, sent out a blast text on Friday before the Super Bowl notifying supporters on its mailing list that it is paying “influencers” to direct their friends to turn off their televisions when the president’s ad airs using the hashtag #MuteTrump”.

The Chief Strategist for Defeat DisInfo is David Eichenbaum, who was the Director of Communications for the DNC and was a senior media strategy advisor to Obama, the Clintons, Biden, and the Israeli Labor Party, which opposes Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“Defeat DisInfo” explains their plan: “Over the next several weeks, while we target Republicans along Trump’s campaign trail with our “COVID Safe Communities” campaign, we will also push for the high turnout we need among DEMOCRAT voters. We are launching new creative campaigns each week, sourcing more peer-to-peer content than ever, and amplifying compelling stories from Biden supporters in the digital discourse”.





https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...esident-trump
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Thank-you.:good4u:
 
Legion said:
She's just pretending to be appalled because it's a GOP initiative. Teens work for social media campaigns and influences get paid to influence. She suddenly thinks it's bad because Trump.

Isn't the left all about "age is just a number"? :thinking:
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Yeppers.
 
Stretch said:
Far left propaganda is what those kids did and do in their little safe space twitterverses.
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Twitter is just one of many.

There's a plentiful plethora of politicized platforms primarily populated by prepubescents, Ms. Stretch.
 
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