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Fighting Global Internet Propaganda Review

Some people are fighting online trolls as a team online, essentially as a campaign.

This is some information about this movement.

Intentions of Propaganda

This section could use some well researched information, but there are some obvious ones:

  1. Remove thoughtful people from the political process
  2. Polarize the political process to create deeper fractures in ideology
  3. Overfocus people on literally anything
    • prevent them from seeing the big picture
  4. Appeal to emotion
  5. Apply self-consistency logic (you agree to this, therefore you must agree to that)
    • Self consistency is the primary driver for human motivation.

Primary Targets for Propaganda

  • reddit
  • twitter
  • facebook

Potential Tactics for Distributing Propaganda

  1. Networks of trolls with simulated traffic
    • 'record and playback' real account activity using real network topography as a template to evade detection
    • build many disjoint layers of fake networks that can be activated for particular purposes
  2. Recruit vulnerable people
    • identify more intimate online forums for people seeking more personal attention: 4chan, something awful
      • create new online forums to cultivate this:
      • voat, gab, PewTube, WrongThink, Infogalactic, GoyFundMe, wasp.love
      • "The Alt-Right Created a Parallel Internet. It's an unholy mess." - NYT Article
    • misdirected people can exert influence on real social networks
    • viral sharing is already addictive
    • use narrative storytelling to move people further than the mainstream pool of facts

Trollfare

the purpose of this sub is, for a start, to have free-form discussions about how american or allied reddit users can more effectively combat RU and other hostile propaganda on reddit and elsewhere on the internet.

Securing Democracy

Tracking Russian influenced twitter hashtags.

Twitter banned 70 million accounts