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But I'm sure this time it will work... (lemmy.today)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Can I interest you all in a link?

YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it.

Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream -- people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they've gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.

(All of the stuff above is basically the "standard" for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you're above a certain size.)

https://archive.is/PoUMo

Lemmy thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/39873361

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is one of the most interesting threads I’ve ever read. What the fuck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you talking about the archive link? Most people don't understand. I reported someone for a personal attack and someone calling for war and the mod said I was trolling because I'm egging them on. Challenging people that are calling for violence isn't egging them on IMO. But whatever. This is going to be a battle if some of the mods are even being duped.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, the archive link. The conversation about ‘being part of the hydra’, specifically. Sorry if I misunderstood your intention.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No intention, I was just curious. It's kind of crazy the dude shared all of that.

It's the capability. I try to be aware of marketing and the little psych games they play. This reminds me of Nickelback hatred. Suddenly it was cool to hate them. It was like a switch had been turned on. Even if someone liked Nickelback they would put them in homes because the understanding was there. I try to be extremely skeptical but the anonymity of the internet makes it impossible to know if I'm talking to someone or merely one of the heads of a hydra.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

What I found crazy was that, he knew exactly what he was doing. He’s intelligent enough that he can understand all the injustices in our society and how people are taken advantage of, only to consider his complete capitulation to it as ‘amoral’.

He actively decided to throw his arms up in apathy, but he doesn’t see it as a moral choice.

Wild.