“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. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, 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,...

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that guy was talking about organized shilling for corporate interests? Not geopolitical ones? I mean I'm sure the tactics are the same (actually I'm sure they are orders of magnitude more sophisticated now when done by state actors), just wanted to correct the record about that particular person.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago

Why do you want to correct the record? It was about politics anyway, whether this guy admits it or not. Cambridge Analytica was a thing.

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