Thread by @brooklynmarie

I've watched astrology forums for ages because I suspect there's disinfo being slipped in there to push people (who are often reading horoscopes out of uncertainty about their future) toward specific self-perceptions

https://twitter.com/erumors/status/1446543267449827331

This is the problem with debunking and fact-checking as it stands; no one is haunting the places the truly destructive disinformation is being pushed and they act like it's weird that I do so. But don't you think this would destroy someone whose self-image is fragile, make them

manipulable? And doesn't the astrological world have a good bit of crossover with the "wellness" world? Imagine someone has lost someone they love, lost their faith, started trawling astro forums for answers. Be easy to "nudge" people like that into crackpot shit

I don't think astrologers are necessarily the ones doing this, by the way, although it's not impossible. However, this looks to me like a sustained disinfo attack coming from outside, just like all the rest of them.

But maybe that's just a Gemini thing to think lol sorry I couldn't resist

And I hope it's clear that I am not shitting on astrology in general. I try never to shit on any faith nor belief system, and yes, I consider this an important element of certain faiths (unless it has Nazi shit embedded in it)

Which absolutely has historical precedent, as Nazis understood to a certain degree that to affect human behavior you have to taint human stories about ourselves, each other, and the world around us vice.com/en/article/kza…

I'm still working on developing this out. I've had a hard time finding much foundational work on it, so I'm just kinda building it all on my own. Here's the meta-categories of disinfo warfare I have been able to identify

https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1431337082903924738

I believe this to be of the archetypal variety, telling people lies about who and what they are and who and what they should be, and also directs them toward certain spiritual elements