You’ve probably seen messages purporting busses of ‘outside agitators’ or ‘antifa’ are coming to tear up your town
I’ll have a column up tmrw, in meantime:
-They are a psychological operation
-They’ve achieved behavioral outcomes twd escalating unrest
-It’s bad. You can help /1
I’ll have a column up tmrw, in meantime:
-They are a psychological operation
-They’ve achieved behavioral outcomes twd escalating unrest
-It’s bad. You can help /1
These are just a handful of screenshots and examples that y’all flagged for me when I posted about this before.
Together, the techniques and patterns are clear. Second-hand insider info. These are hyper-localized messages spreading in ways that can evade detection. /2
Together, the techniques and patterns are clear. Second-hand insider info. These are hyper-localized messages spreading in ways that can evade detection. /2
In many instances, local police have had to respond. Mostly they say “this isn’t happening here,” because there are layers and layers of bad, false, inflammatory info coming from Fox News, right-world, and the White House on this theme, which local cops can’t get into /3
In many instances, these messages coincide with places where armed militias and vigilante groups have organized against the kind of unrest rumored to be coming to smaller towns and cities. Again, Fox beats this drum hard. But the false messages make the threat about us /4
The goal seems to be to raise anxieties, amplify perceptions of chaos/unrest, escalate possibility for conflict b/w us.
What can you do?
-don’t spread these msgs
-Push back
-Amplify articles showing they are false
-amplify messages from local media/authorities debunking them
/5
What can you do?
-don’t spread these msgs
-Push back
-Amplify articles showing they are false
-amplify messages from local media/authorities debunking them
/5
My column this weekend will have more information about how these messages work and their impact.
In the meantime, you can catch up on past pieces on rage, conspiracies, being a better information citizen, and more, here: /6
standuprepublic.com/category/defus…
In the meantime, you can catch up on past pieces on rage, conspiracies, being a better information citizen, and more, here: /6
standuprepublic.com/category/defus…
And I just want to re-emphasize:
I very rarely post about this stuff in such explicit terms. I am very, very concerned about how rapidly these messages spread and found the right targets BEFORE anyone really noticed the nationwide reach
Someone is targeting Americans with this.
I very rarely post about this stuff in such explicit terms. I am very, very concerned about how rapidly these messages spread and found the right targets BEFORE anyone really noticed the nationwide reach
Someone is targeting Americans with this.
Also, you should be really pissed about it.
Not British pissed, American pissed.
That alone was justification enough for the revolution.
Not British pissed, American pissed.
That alone was justification enough for the revolution.
Also: there seems to be a new version of this targeting the left instead of the right, similar themes and tactics.
More as it develops
More as it develops
