An excellent thread by @ericgarland analyzing the transnational (Russian) organized crime-backed, psychological information war being waged against us, and the effect on society, and the people we love......1/
I wrote a thread (in response to an excellent thread by @lulumelew about disinformation) about a study showing that viewers who watched FOX News actually knew less about current events than people who did not watch any news…. 2/
…in that thread, I included a passage about how Cambridge Analytica used social media accounts to create algorithms…. 3/
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One of Garland’s important points is the effect that the propaganda has had on otherwise “good” people……6/
……which parallels the effect of being bombarded with pathological thinking/behaviors, which when occurring in conjunction with the psychological manipulation of the propagandized information war, has resulted in people becoming unrecognizable at times: 7/
….by triggering an almost primitive, animalistic fear-driven (fight-or-flight) response that if itself doesn’t result in the manifestation of inhumane actions,….8/
….it often results in the approval or celebration of sociopathic/inhumane actions that further the interest of “tribe” that the psychological manipulation has either herded them into…… 9/
....or caused people to intensify their membership of a group to which they already previously belonged, and derive their identity from….10/
Once herded into groups, a potential physiological response comes into play and essentially reinforces the process by creating a pain avoidance component to tribalization/group identity….11/
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I'll end with a couple of tweets from @ericgarland's thread: 16/
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