Caitlin Johnstone — Majority Media’S Russia Hysteria Is Openly Acknowledging The Ability Of Propaganda
FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver, a fairly reliable institution loyalist, tweeted today most the novel Russian Federation study maxim “If you lot wrote out a listing of the most of import factors inwards the 2016 election, I’m non certain that Russian social media memes would endure with the altitude 100. The scale was quite small-scale as well as there’s non much prove that they were effective.”
“For instance, this even out makes a big bargain most a (post-election) Russian social media disinformation crusade on Bob Mueller based on… 5,000 tweets? That’s **nothing**. Platform-wide, at that topographic point are something similar 500,000,000 tweets posted each day,” Silver continued.…
What fraction of overall social media impressions on the 2016 election were generated past times Russian troll farms? 0.1%? I'm non certain what the response is, only suspect it's low, as well as it says something that none of the reports that hype upward the importance of them address that question.Then at that topographic point is the question, "what to practise most this?"
They enjoin you lot their draw of piece of job concern is that Russians are trying to manipulate your hear with propaganda, only actually their draw of piece of job concern is that they desire to endure the solely ones manipulating your hear with propaganda. They enjoin you lot Russian propaganda is then unsafe that it’s necessary to censor the mesh as well as shroud all narratives which aren’t inwards draw with the ruling institution inwards venture to protect democracy, only actually all they desire is to accept total command of the narratives you lot consume. This is evidenced inwards the article past times the Washington Post which kicked off this latest circular of Russian Federation panic, which reports the following:The study expressed draw of piece of job concern most the overall threat social media poses to political discourse inside nations as well as with them, alert that companies in 1 lawsuit viewed every bit tools for liberation inwards the Arab footing as well as elsewhere are forthwith threats to democracy.
“Social media accept gone from beingness the natural infrastructure for sharing collective grievances as well as coordinating civic hateful solar daytime of the month to beingness a computational tool for social control, manipulated past times canny political consultants as well as available to politicians inwards democracies as well as dictatorships alike,” the study said.
Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
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