The reason why trashpreneur #parmesanGirl is going through my followers list, and blocking anyone who follows me, is because of a fundamental lie of disinformation that she has to keep up: the lie of popular support.
Understanding it requires starting with the basics of disinfo.
Understanding it requires starting with the basics of disinfo.
Given unrecoverable intent, disinfo studies have a kind of lack of basis.
You can get past this pretty easy with data - and I'm a huge fan of data tools, you see me use them all the time.
But there's more to this than, like, counting tweets and scrolling timelines.
You can get past this pretty easy with data - and I'm a huge fan of data tools, you see me use them all the time.
But there's more to this than, like, counting tweets and scrolling timelines.
There are also basic felicity conditions that underlie speech.
Insofar as disinformation is an *intentional* act, it will tend to break one of these maxims, or some other unenumerated felicity condition.
Insofar as disinformation is an *intentional* act, it will tend to break one of these maxims, or some other unenumerated felicity condition.
A structural analysis of disinformation in this manner can actually yield non-trivial results.
It's not, like, pretending you see the order in something; it's testing out explanations and seeing how well they play.
Some explanations work really well and bear out in practice.
It's not, like, pretending you see the order in something; it's testing out explanations and seeing how well they play.
Some explanations work really well and bear out in practice.
In fact, the idea of fundamental maxim-breaks - the idea that there's some basic transgression that disinformation has to enact - extends fairly well into other "fundamental lies" of disinfo.
This is where we get to why #parmesanGirl is so panicky with that block button.
This is where we get to why #parmesanGirl is so panicky with that block button.
#ParmesanGirl is of a class of trashpreneur that is not ever on Fox News, or for that matter quoted in any "real" news outlets, except as a laughingstock.
All she does is troll.
The instant that her trolling stops being entertaining & smug is the instant her career ends.
All she does is troll.
The instant that her trolling stops being entertaining & smug is the instant her career ends.
This is why #parmesanGirl can't stand having her ratios pointed out to her; it's why she's so easy to provoke.
It's a weakness to exploit.
She has to, because otherwise, people see her for what she is:
Just interchangeable trash that makes convenient noises for fascists.
It's a weakness to exploit.
She has to, because otherwise, people see her for what she is:
Just interchangeable trash that makes convenient noises for fascists.
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