“QAnon crawled out of the sewer that is the chans, it started moving around, people observed it and said, ‘Hmm, this has some utility.’ And people started feeding it and using it..It got tuned to be something that could be manipulated,used to an effect.”-@davetroy in @BylineTimes
https://twitter.com/bylinetimes/status/1366725687734915075
“Troy says he finds it alarming that Flynn is an expert in networked insurgency.
‘He would know that if you want some people to do some things you just have to plant messaging with some mullahs, get the mullahs to put out the word..and then what do you know, something happens.”
‘He would know that if you want some people to do some things you just have to plant messaging with some mullahs, get the mullahs to put out the word..and then what do you know, something happens.”
“We spent a lot of time last fall raising alarm bells with journalists, saying, ‘Dudes, this is crazy.’ Military folks and intel people are saying this stuff, some of whom have backgrounds with psyops..so aspects of QAnon may be informed by people w/expertise in psyops.”@davetroy
“This network of folks connected with the CNP..coordinated a variety of campaigns in coordination with a variety of entities in Russia connected to the Kremlin to advance traditional values and disinformation and a variety of other things around the world.”-@davetroy @BylineTimes
“So these folks went from being virulently anti-USSR to being pro-Russia because they saw Putin’s network as capitalistic, aligned with the Orthodox Church, pro-family. They felt as though the Russians..through the autocratic expression of rule from Putin, were allies.”-@davetroy
“The COVID stuff was originating from some of the very same people that were connected to QAnon, which were connected to some of the same people behind Parler,” said @davetroy
He said despite historical precedents, the United States was not prepared for this psyops blitzkrieg.
He said despite historical precedents, the United States was not prepared for this psyops blitzkrieg.
“The technology to arrange people into pathologically harmful social capital configurations is something that can be weaponised and has been weaponised throughout history around the world. We in the US are not accustomed to that kind of thing being truly weaponised.”-@davetroy
“QAnon is the weaponisation of social capital to create cult-like behaviours, and in turn, it harms the people involved,” said @davetroy.
He said it’s important to view the people that have been sucked into this stuff as victims of a technology that was intended to harm them.
He said it’s important to view the people that have been sucked into this stuff as victims of a technology that was intended to harm them.
That the weaponised disinformation is coming from disgruntled former military and intelligence sources is disturbing but follows a historic pattern.
Many of the forefathers of the right-wing moralist movement had been benched by presidents, becoming martyrs to their acolytes.-hc
Many of the forefathers of the right-wing moralist movement had been benched by presidents, becoming martyrs to their acolytes.-hc
In the framework @davetroy lays out, everything aligns. The bigger picture of American and Russian moralists trying to overthrow democracy actually makes sense.
“You have to cover about 50 years of history to really get it, but that is the nature of what we’re dealing with it.”
“You have to cover about 50 years of history to really get it, but that is the nature of what we’re dealing with it.”
“Trump was useful in that he created the centre of gravity to bring everybody along that these people wanted to weaponise, but in terms of who’s really running things here, it’s always been the Mercers, the Kochs, the CNP people. It’s still them. And nothing’s changed.”-@davetroy
“And one day, Trump will die, and there will be some new avatar that they nominate for the same purpose.”-@davetroy
You’ve been warned.
hsc in @BylineTimes
You’ve been warned.
hsc in @BylineTimes
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