As law enforcement continues its nationwide manhunt for violent pro-Trump extremists involved in last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, one of America’s top experts in disinformation is here to remind you that if you want to understand how we got here, you need to look beyond Donald Trump and Washington.
In the months leading up to last week’s insurrection, pro-Trump conspiracy theories repeatedly found purchase among the president’s supporters. Some posited that the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax to hurt Trump. Or that mail-in ballots were fraud being perpetrated to hurt Trump. Or that this past summer’s protests against the police killings of Black Americans were secretly organized and funded by liberal billionaire George Soros to hurt Trump. And on and on.
We are a week removed from the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, which was largely the result of misinformation and disinformation— about both the outcome of the election and things like the QAnon conspiracy theory. You study and track this stuff. If you pull back, what is the state of misinformation right now?
When we use the word “networked,” we’re trying to address the scale by which people are communicating with each other about a particular topic, the way in which technology brings people and ideas together into the same space, and then the durability of those ideas in those communities. Facebook and Twitter and YouTube did take some action to try to delete some QAnon content, especially as it morphed into a more militarized social movement during the “reopen” protests. But the damage had already been done.
“Disinformers … tend to leapfrog across different platforms. … However, if they can use one or two of them effectively, they can get that information to circulate on other platforms.” There’s a concept I’ve heard you refer to when talking about media manipulation: “trading up the chain.” Can you describe how that works?. He used to design viral media campaigns, and noticed that if low-level bloggers covered, say, a movie he was marketing, that it would quickly “trade up the chain,” because people in online news organizations and cable news looked to those low-level blogs for interesting stories.
In that instance, trying to “trade up the chain” backfired. Everybody who works in [the disinformation-debunking sphere] knows that disinformers consistently go back to the same tactics. We were all ready for a hack-and-leak operation. That particular tactic really wasn’t going to work the way that they had hoped.
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Fuck off benshapiroco
If you want to understand how we got here, look no further that your guest editor Ben Shapîro
you idiots JUST ran a Ben Shapiro editorial
Fuck these experts
So you hire a racist who spreads lies and propaganda. You are giving a voice to his bullshit and that is dangerous, as you clearly saw with the violence and sedition on January 6 in the Nation's Capitol. WTF is the matter with you?
And then publishes Ben Shapiro. Trash.
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