Thread by @warmatters

Social media is a perfect way to turn defeat into collapse.

That’s the fight now being had on Telegram. Disinfo/misinfo everything and anything to get people to run away.

Makes the lives of OSINT analysts that bit harder!

https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar/status/1568964367235907585

Amplify the impending collapse. Like Islamic State in 2014. Watch the enemy run before a firefight even starts.

Yet again the smartphone becomes a vector for war - even conventional and highly kinetic wars like that in Ukraine.

#radicalwar

Just reflect on @LawDavF tweet for a mo.

"The attrition story"

Typically the armed forces portray this as just another example of "information war".

But if you think about how EVERYONE is engaging with this war (by smartphone) the dynamics have changed.

https://twitter.com/LawDavF/status/1568772007814172673?s=20&t=ETxgvU-w8bRi2FE6HueGZg

So we see the war through connected devices FIRST and then we layer on the traditional tropes that explain how war works to help us make sense of what we're seeing.

But I'm not sure that's right given the scale of connectivity and the quantity of data we now produce and consume.

Our attention is framed by these traditional discourses.

But what we can't be sure of is the provenance of the data we're reading. Our feeds are all over the place. They're asynchronous and enormous and they reconstruct our attention in ways that might not reflect "events".