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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's Not Just Trumpers Spreading Pro-Trump Propaganda On Facebook. This is extremely worrying.
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/its-not-just-trumpers-spreading-proWASHINGTON, DC -- Last week, we learned about one of the most terrifying political operations in recent memory. Journalist McKay Coppins published an article for The Atlantic about Donald Trumps Death Star in Rosslyn, Virginia -- an office space in which Trumps campaign manager, Brad Parscale, along with a staff of hundreds, is engaged in "the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history."
The mission of Trumps Death Star is to micro-target registered voters on social media with countless political advertisements and other posts designed to spread pro-Trump propaganda, in most cases straight-up lies. All in all, the operation effectively weaponizes the Russian Internet Research Agencys attack on the 2016 election, but originating the same brand of awfulness domestically and under the full control of the Trump machine.
We also learned that the Republican National Committee, which has merged with the Trump campaign, possesses around 3,000 data points on every American voter. Thats you. Thats me. Thats every living American whos registered. These data points include your biases, your flaws, your preferences -- everything that might be pulled from your social media presence, and which Mark Zuckerberg allowed to be harvested without our permission. And speaking of Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder decided after meeting with Trump that itd be fine and dandy to continue allowing on the platform political ads that contain lies.
The idea is to manipulate voters into willingly circulating the pro-Trump, anti-Democratic lies without flinching, turning Facebook users into distributors of free media -- of lies and propaganda. Theres so much more to the story -- way more -- so I urge you to read it carefully from top to bottom. It might be the most important political news story of the year. Since I first wrote about the Death Star last week, Ive heard from quite a few readers on the left who condemned the dumbness of Trump supporters for spreading Trump agitprop -- for falling for the obvious deception.
But its not just Red Hats who are falling for Trumps propaganda..................................................
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SWBTATTReg
(22,118 posts)inclined to not be active on public forums etc. and thus are relatively unknown. Biases, flaws, etc. all drawn from one's social media presence. I'd say that they are probably not getting a 100% accurate view of the voting population if this is all they are banking on. There a vast underground of people who don't participate in the social media world (older folks who didn't grow up w/ it, those that can't afford it, those that don't believe in it, etc.).
There's a saying I've always believed in, garbage in, garbage out.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)unc70
(6,113 posts)Thirty years ago, it was just info like what magazines you read, the type of your car, any court records, your voting history, and such. Now, even without using social media, they can also track things like what you buy online, much of what you buy offline, where you visit online, and nearly everything else.
SWBTATTReg
(22,118 posts)defines it (social media), what they include, etc.
unc70
(6,113 posts)Not as much as someone often online, but still lots of ways to collect and compile your "private" info.
young_at_heart
(3,767 posts)Mark Zuckerberg is absolutely not impartial!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)as soon as I can.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...and the Turd machine is under the full control of the Putin machine.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)anything and everything is subject to scrutiny. Even positive stuff about Democrats. People always start out being leftish, until they get a little bit of cred, than they flip.