On these messages boards, currently, a large fractions of posts are "signal boosting" for planted political messages, via bots & paid trolls
The alt-right (distinct from traditional far-right) has emerged from the political radicalization of legions of loners on online msg boardshttps://twitter.com/fchollet/status/861245948214693890 …
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So this is not a crazy question: how much is opportunistic co-opting of a natural emergent phenomenon, how much was deliberately planned?
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You might find my brief analysis of these psy-op campaigns that I wrote in December of interest:https://ultimateoddball.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/cyber-psy-op-campaign-in-the-2016-u-s-election-an-analysis/ …
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