Now think how algorithms multiplied the illusion of popular support to sway the followers and intimidate the rest
https://twitter.com/slickrockweb/status/1361045811354865668
And how political messaging got adjusted and personalized according to hopes, dreams, fears etc. with personality data and a/b testing over the years
That same disinfo + algorithm combination took all the authoritarians, which generally exist across political spectrums, and pushed them rightward using fear, anger, a sense of disenfranchisement, gave them new welcoming groups, new exciting goals, new leases on life, new targets
The #TantonNetwork has been testing out messaging like this on Americans for decades, but data and algorithms supercharged it and turned entire countries into disinfo labs in the process, because entitled assholes just wanted to see what would happen. nytimes.com/2018/10/15/tec…
Call it a confluence of aligned interests — hypercorporate entities and the global far right, grabbing up whatever they can under a thick cloud of misdirection and lies before the world changes enough that they’re forever irrelevant. That’s what I’m trying to stop.
You know why countries are moving to harden borders and demonize immigrabrs? Because they’re anticipating that there are about to be a whole lot of people trying to get in. It’s not abstract. Some of those people might be me. Or you.
And that’s why I say: This is a coordinated power and resource grab by the global far right aided by social media platforms.
Why the fuck does my shit-ass phone autocorrect “immigrants” to “immigrabrs”? These people can’t even get autocorrect right and they think they’re capable of running a planet
Further reading. Well before disinfo was my thing, borders and climate change were pnas.org/content/117/43…
One of the reasons - but by no means the only reason - I push back against “caravan” disinfo is because I see what they truly are: Climate refugees. Which means all that surveillance tech at the border isn’t really to keep us safe.
Remember the lesson I’ve learned over and over again in the last few years, when I apparently interfered with a lot of burgeoning business models. Borders also keep you in. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
Anyway happy Valentine’s Day
Oh btw in case you don’t click, that link with the journalist whose passport is flagged? That’s me.
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