"The aim is not to make you love Putin. The aim is to make you disbelieve anything." cc @webradiushttps://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/709021703637225472 …
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Replying to @intelwire
The aim is to create so much confusion as to what "the truth" is, as to make you disbelieve that it even exists.
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Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi
This. Why anti-censorship needs verification as much as circumvention.
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Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi
@iyad_elbaghdadi Still something I'm writing; gave a talk on it here (will look for the stream).https://citp.princeton.edu/event/conference-on-internet-censorship-interference-and-control/ …1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @zeynep
@iyad_elbaghdadi Basically, outside of few cases—China—information gets out, somehow, but the counter-effort is all about sowing confusion.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@iyad_elbaghdadi Demonizing the medium "the internet is source of vice" or "it's mostly false" or claims that dissident claims are fake..3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes -
Replying to @iyad_elbaghdadi
@iyad_elbaghdadi That is exactly right; and once everything is unknowable, and not trust worthy, power wins, ordinary people retreat.1 reply 6 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@iyad_elbaghdadi It's classic FUD. Works every time
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@jkohlmann @iyad_elbaghdadi The main method used to be blocking of information. That's not really possible anymore, so new phase.
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Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@iyad_elbaghdadi Yup. In the filter bubble era, supersaturation lets entities push the truth behind a cognitive barrier.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zeynep@iyad_elbaghdadi (That's one of my working theories, anyway, that creating the cognitive burden of misinformation is *the* tactic.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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