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It has been too many painful years of provocations.

To go on pretending this isn't happening, to pretend it isn't harming us, that these staged moments are merely harmless objects for our amusement.

Ridiculous clothes. Naked women paraded. Strange hats. Fascist imagery. Shout-capping social media. AI images. PR photos. Spelling errors. Fake fights.

We gawk at the spectacle.

And are being systematically destroyed, while we watch.

Amplifying hostile provocations is the same as picking up a live enemy grenade tossed in our trench and tossing it toward friends.

While we say,

"OMG, would you look at this crazy thing! They are so stupid! Ha ha!"

Do not repost the enemy's hostile propaganda.

To discuss the details of an information attack, denature and disarm their information weapons first.

Do not toss them at your fellows.

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"The world has never seen power like this before. The state machinery of a global superpower allied to the power and reach of global information platforms."

#CaroleCadwalladr, 2025

broligarchy.substack.com/p/tot

Actually we have. Newspapers, radio, film and television were all used by the global superpowers of the day (especially the US and USSR) to expand soft power beyond their territorial borders.

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broligarchy.substack.comTotal information collapseIt's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

:blobcatyes: Study... Our outrage over social media posts helps misinformation spread

(Liberals think that linking / RTing disinfo to complain about it is some kind of essential exercise in truth-telling. Actually, that is raising the culprit's exposure and search rankings and monetization $$$. Screenshot it and quote/paraphrase them instead plz. That goes for blogs and news articles, too!)

phys.org/news/2024-11-outrage-

Phys.org · Our outrage over social media posts helps misinformation spread, study showsBy AAAS
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@w7voa

From the #MuellerReport, Volume 1, page 4:

"The IRA [Internet Research Agency] later used #SocialMedia accounts and interest groups to sow discord in the #US political system through what it termed #InformationWarfare. The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 2014 and 2015 to undermine the U.S. electoral system, to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate #Trump and disparaged candidate #Clinton."

#Putin wants Trump to win... again.

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Then read the next essay by @Teri_Kanefield

terikanefield.com/the-russian-

About Russia's ongoing disinformation attack on America, and how #Trump both benefits from that attack and also helps distract Americans (and especially American #media) from the fact that the #US is under attack by #Russia.

How can you fight #InformationWarfare if you don't pay any attention to the war.

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"...'voting' around controversial topics. At what point does this start to challenge the legitimacy of elected governments? This is something #Musk is likely to explore."

Musk's bungled #TwitterTakeover
will not be taught in business schools.

"In fact, it is likely to end up being taught in #history classes as an example of #totalitarian #InformationWarfare, and if we don’t arrest and reverse our current trajectory, we may also experience the worst effects of such a program,..."

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The concept of cognitive warfare goes even further than the previous ones (hybrid, information..), since it assumes threat actors can achieve manipulation on the level of how elites and civilians-at-large think and act. This, again, can legitimate far-reaching interventions into civilian life (e.g. surveillance) for threat detection.

@politicalscience #polisci #commodon #security #Russia #NATO #hybridwarfare #informationwarfare #cognitivewarfare

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I would argue that most of the patterns Libiseller describes, similarly apply to 'information warfare', which got its launch into 'fashion' after the 2016 US elections and Brexit (and there has been an interesting interplay between the two concepts as well).

The exact same is happening once again, this time with the concept of 'cognitive warfare'.

@politicalscience #polisci #commodon #security #Russia #NATO #hybridwarfare #informationwarfare #cognitivewarfare