We build a giant deception machine called marketing and advertising, and an adversary used it against us.
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We build a giant influence machine called social media, and an adversary used it against us.
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We left open, unreconciled divisions in our society, and an adversary used it against us.
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We weakened our press such that all the phony conflict inspired by this information warfare campaign was reported in real-time with little to no vetting, and an adversary used it against us.
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We allowed our democracy to become so corrupted by money and self-serving, power-hungry folks that we already didn't trust it, and an adversary used it against us.
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If the election had turned out differently, would we even know half of what we do? We only got Robert Mueller because Trump is president but also bad at wielding his power.
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And even though the Russians amplified divisions to be greater than they are, those divisions are real now. There is a basic level of trust we have to have in our environment to act appropriately, and that's severely broken.
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On top of that, one-half of the political establishment (the republican half) is completely uninterested in acknowledging, investigating, or responding to this sophisticated act of information warfare. They've done NOTHING to prepare us for the next campaign.
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The president still hasn't imposed the Russia sanctions that Congress passed overwhelmingly. And everybody's just acting like, "Meh. TRUMP WILL BE TRUMP! Undermining national security is just his THING ya know?"
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And Facebook. Oh Facebook. So happy to monetize the destruction of our civil fabric. They made $7B in the 3rd quarter of 2016. Zuckerberg smugly said 99% of posts are "authentic." We cannot trust this company to do what's best for us. Not just FB btw.https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/13/zuckerberg-claims-99-of-facebook-posts-authentic-denies-fake-news-there-influenced-election/ …
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#SurveillanceCapitalism has dire ramifications for democracy and human rights:
Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not?
https://ind.ie/excuse-me/
(Or, if you prefer longer form text: https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/ …)
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