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Glad this is getting some sunshine, but its been an operating assumption for years - the most dangerous "Advanced Persistent Manipulators" (APM) in the future will be in the private sector "Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups" nyti.ms/39zJeAn
Trolling-as-a-service is boom business, and those outfits with on the ground spies and online trolls will be highly coveted & influential, oligarchs, politicians & those that act as both love these services - see here @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/how-every-camp…
See here how former spies & troll farms come together to empower the wealthy - Objectives = all, Methods = more sophisticated on the ground operations, more resources @SecureDemocracy "Advanced Persistent Manipulators" securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/advanced-persi…
good breakdown by @cwarzel - Its a battle of "Clickbait Populism" - "those who give the crowd what they want will gain what they need to advance their agenda" #MessingWithTheEnemy "Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention" nyti.ms/2Hnc2Q4
@cwarzel Bloomberg's social media approach probably smart tactic. But still one major variable where Trump has advantage. The messenger powers the message & distribution. Trump's actions in the physical world drive engagement virtual world, I've only seen Bloomberg do that once.
@cwarzel When I encounter social media strategists, they still don't quite get this , no line between physical-virtual world, and a good engagement strategy plays in both. Kremlin trolls staged events, provocations; Trump does rallies....Bloomberg, if pursues meme only strategy, will fail
.@nytdavidbrooks important read Same conclusion Chapter 9 #MessingWithTheEnemy - formation preference bubbles allows Americans select preferred information exclusively from people that look like them & talk like them, all without consequence nytimes.com/2019/12/26/opi…
Lower barrier producing content, accessing content allows for endless development & distribution content suiting any possible preference. You want the earth to be flat - DONE! You want to re-write history so your team wins -DONE! AI will make this worse amazon.com/Messing-Enemy-…
Brooks asks how we reset to a unified lens of reality? We could aggressively force people to see through others’ lenses (Really hard in current social media era) or the public could suffer the consequences of ignoring a shared reality (Unfortunate but natural endpoint)
The more we learn, the worse it looks. “New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump” nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
“You don’t know, what about Yayaya?” Well seems like we are to the point where we do know, and we know why. As discussed in #MessingWithTheEnemy - I believe Russia, at a minimum, won Trump MI & WI 
#MuellerReport provides great detail on Russia 1) using hacking to power social media influence 2) physical provocations incite divisions & compromise targets. For overview system, here's "Trolling For Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy." warontherocks.com/2016/11/trolli…
.@WarOnTheRocks article came 2 days before 2016 election, #MuellerReport confirms Russia's troll farm shifted to US audiences in late 2014 (even had a field trip), nudged American audience divides 2015 (staged first rallies) & then went for 2016 election securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/so-what-did-we…
.@SecureDemocracy also offers a breakdown of how Russia operated a full spectrum disinformation system 2014 - 2016. System's focus has changed its focus a bit since 2016, will pursue difference objectives going into 2020 securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/russias-active…
