Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says | Ottawa Citizen ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…
“The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal…”
I warned you. A global, far right power grab aided by Big Tech, leveraging weaponized disinformation and propaganda techbiques, on the cusp of a climate meltdown
This is why the fact-checking model does not work. Telling people they got something wrong and just stopping there is playing directly into these campaigns. They’re opportunistic and weaponized and you have to be nimble and on the ball to fight them. This is what we’re up against
Techniques* argh
June 2021 cbc.ca/news/politics/…
That’s why you have those antivaxxer rallies and other weird American-looking optics. The same people are writing the narratives used to goad those targeted as vulnerable to such messaging into the streets (using @Facebook data and groups more often than not.)
So I know I keep saying this but I hope all the insane shit I said makes more sense now. It really pained me to sound publicly batshit for years and years. It just needed to be said publicly, early and often, and no one else was saying it so I had to
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