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Easy to do, just send out the time and date to select reporters and they'll show up and make a story out of it. I'm sure a focus group somewhere recommended this exact strategy. Happens all the time in the United States.
It hUmAnIzEs politicians for voters
Also a tried and true tactic in the entertainment industry
And who worked in Hollywood and Washington, DC, has access to huge amounts of stolen psychological data on voters worldwide, and has recently been photographed with high-level Indian politicians? Anyone?
I mean it's not just one person but there is one person spearheading these efforts, which are now global.
So imagine the usual political ads interspersed with violent imagery via dark ads all abetted with algorithms that just make it seem like the rest of the world is in your corner, except, of course, for a targeted out-group (which varies by region and history.) "Those People."
Texas was an early adopter of Cambridge Analytica's tactics btw. Ted Cruz was using it as early as 2015. I have been wondering whether that's the reason for the large number of mass shootings there this year alone. And there was more than one that was racialized.
I feel like this should be getting more attention too, in light of more recent events channel4.com/news/cambridge…
Also, I realize what I am saying sounds batshit if you are unfamiliar with the history of advertising and politics. But Edward Bernays, the "father" of modern advertising, developed it as a means of social control. Guess who penned the disinfo that led to the Guatemala coup?
