@Facebook does not operate in good faith. They never have. They never will. They must be held accountable by us, the public.
And that is why we have to deal with these Nazi fucks on social platforms ourselves. Countertroll them, don't let them in your circles, mock them en masse, brigade them with mass reports. Coordinate reporting offensive content with all your friends. Make @Facebook listen to you.
I've been doing this for years. Remember how I said I sit on here all day for a reason? I've been taking notes on what works and what doesn't with trolls. You get a bunch of people mocking them and then refusing to engage further, and they just fall apart. If you can get bad
people to fight with each other, do that. Infiltrate these groups with sockpuppet accounts and tell them all that everyone else secretly hates them. I've destroyed entire nascent groups this way. It's remarkably effective. But if social media won't step up -- and they won't --
then we have to do it ourselves.
Mock, countertroll, brigade and mass report. Shitpost for the greater good. It's counterdisinformation. It's proactive measures.
You can work off this report for a really good forensic look into how weaponized trolling works. I've been reverse-engineering it and writing up reports for ways to effectively fight disinformation. AI isn't going to do it and platforms are unreliable stratcomcoe.org/download/file/…
That's where this series came from. I want people to see:
1.) We are fighting a new kind of threats, hybrid threats;
2.) Platforms demonstrably cannot be relied upon to stand against hybrid warfare and in fact appear to be enabling it in some cases;
3.) We can still fight it.
Remember how I say algorithms offer the illusion of popularity or consensus where none actually exist? If 12 people - 12! - can wreak havoc on us then imagine how effective pissed-off people with axes to grind might be on Nazi networks. engadget.com/anti-vaccine-m…
Look to some friends of mine for inspiration.
The best part about this kind of thing is you can talk about it right out in the open, and it makes it even more effective because your targets get even more paranoid lol
I had two standard lectures that really cemented my reputation as a loose cannon: "The Cops Are Not Our Friends and Their Press Releases Cannot Be Blindly Trusted" and "For Fuck's Sake Why Isn't Anybody Paying Attention to the Goddamn California Nazis."
The border wall here in California (which, contrary to the disinformation, has existed for many years) is a complete environmental nightmare, because every environmental law on the books was waived to get that shit up there. It's literally a shit-show in some places
The enviromental destruction wrought by monuments to soft eugenics like the border wall is a longtime interest of mine, as you can see from one of my previous gigs kcet.org/people/brooke-…
"But a Times investigation found that recall campaign leaders, seeking to capitalize on the darkening public mood, allied with radical and extreme elements early on to help collect signatures.
Michigan's @GOP openly incited both 1/6 and the heavily armed statehouse "Operation Gridlock" occupations/temper tantrums that evolved into a militia plot to kidnap and assassinate the governor, so of course they're trying to gaslight the country