I looked at it in the context of antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists having a disproportionate impact on public policy/regional laws. They would use a combo of viral content, coordinated activism/dissemination, and harassment to get their point across.https://www.fastcompany.com/3059742/social-network-algorithms-are-distorting-reality-by-boosting-conspiracy-theories …
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Dominate a hashtag, fool people into thinking there was a mass consensus against, say, a vaccine law (when the opposite was true). The other side wasn't yet playing the game, so perception of popular opinion was skewed if you looked to volume.https://www.wired.com/2015/06/antivaxxers-influencing-legislation/ …
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That kind of activity never stopped. It's increased - bc in high-profile cases it seems effective. In '16, tho there were several thousand Russian trolls manufacturing consensus, there was a larger domestic Trump meme army. Remember
s? Maga3X “We memed a president into office."1 reply 7 proslijeđenih tweetova 27 korisnika označava da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
Some % of sketchy participants involving themselves in those campaigns - Russian
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s, BLM activists, Bernie bros - but majority were real ppl using tools that delivered virality, velocity, mass dissemination, to push their social movement.1 reply 6 proslijeđenih tweetova 26 korisnika označava da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
That is now happening again, and highly visibly, in the 2020 primary. It isn’t “inauthentic” in terms of the actors or the content. The people are (mostly) real, the memes are (mostly) made by grassroots activists and aligned micro-media.
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The key thing to understand is that the tools for mass dissemination are available to anyone because this is how the communication infrastructure of today is designed. Political propaganda is wholly democratized and participatory.
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And it’s advantageous to use it, cheap and easy. The point of memes (as propaganda) is to engender remixing and resharing, to strip out nuance in favor of the simplest slogan possible. Formatted for how social platforms present info. Effective. (https://yalereview.yale.edu/computational-propaganda …)
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The question is, is this the system we want? When you raise that question in the context of *political* messaging the group that is benefiting from the tactics inevitably complains that the question itself is a plea to censor, bitterness from the losing side that can’t meme.
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BUT the kind of mass-blast behavior described is remarkably close to spam. If the content was commercial, a person blasting 6 messages to 50 groups in a second would be a spammer. In today’s politics, it’s digital activism.
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So, the question is, is high-velocity viral propaganda simply our new normal for political discourse? Do other candidates just have to get on board & start doing it too? How should platforms be expected to differentiate?
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Using authenticity of actor is increasingly difficult as a method for evaluating malign campaigns - even the Russians have begun to farm their stuff out to real locals. Evaluating on content - urls, etc - is helpful for addressing sketchy domains.
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But behavior is the strongest signal of coordinated activity, and it’s not clear where the line should be when real domestic activists are using the tools as the platforms designed them. It's a global question at this point:https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/use-of-social-media-to-manipulate-public-opinion-now-a-global-problem-says-new-report/ …
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It remains to be seen if mass blasts from the Bernie groups are preaching to the choir or persuading voters. Political scientists say the latter is nearly impossible, while marketers believe share of voice is key. Determining what caused a candidate to win will be really hard.
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