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Interestingly, ideological preference for decentralization and small-scale political life plays right into this. Libertarianism adopted for reasonable peacetime ideals makes you an infowar-time patsy
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The deployers of fake news as a weaponized infowar tactic aim for 3 outcomes in enemy populations: 1. Fragmentation of truth ground (divide) 2. Retreat from public spaces (conquer) 3. Mutual cognitive retreat among neighbors, at speed of bullshit, from doubt (incapacitate)
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I think our pathologies for how subcultures are driven to conspiracy patsydom are wildly different. I don't think people go crazy in a vaccuum -- they're pushed to it when they perceive enforced ideological singularity. Giving them space to play/breathe will solve problem quickly
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Socially, the emotion driving 55 year old WW2 dads posting historical revisionist screeds on Facebook is just regular loneliness. If we could equip the Dad Right with an army of Wordpress blogs, some of them will develop a comfortable equilibrium.
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You’re underestimating the opposition. We’re not fighting normal societal complexity increase due to internet. We’re fighting actively malicious actors.
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I think strategy is the same regardless. In extreme version of my beliefs Russia should get a bug bounty for exposing faults in our cultural security. If we can't handle manipulation from 13 Russian dudes & $10k in FB ads we have no chance against China.
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You could be right. Only evidence I take seriously is Mueller's, which presents a weak case overall. Further analysis of Russia's sophistication seems indistinguishable from the craziest InfoWars trolls, but I lack for good sources here.
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