People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
Tag: influence operations
Funded advertising for the idea of state sponsored ethnic cleansing in America is not a good sign.
And I really don’t want my tax dollars paying for that bullshit, do you?
Anti-vax propaganda has been a deliberate campaign with loads of big money behind it.
Public health measures that have saved lives are not to blame for anti-vax sentiments; what happened is a disinformation campaign and a lack of a proper public health campaign against it.
Anyone citing pandemic profiteering anonymous accounts on the app formerly known as twitter should stop.
Anonymous covid influencer accounts on “X” (twitter) who post affiliate links to bogus & junk covid products should be dumped as information sources of any kind.
Bad actors leveraged the effects of stigma to manipulate people to thwart public health in a pandemic.
People deliberately spread disinformation, on purpose. Stigma is a known quantity when it comes to disease, especially infectious disease. Scientific American – January 6, 2025 The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science By […]
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Lots of stuff presented as “public health” is not.
Is it a product cult or MLM? Is it just some PR operation? Are they providing effective strategies and information or just wasting a lot of time? There may indeed be different paths and approaches that people want to take with things, but the problem is that it’s not always clear what you’re getting into […]
The same problems continue no matter the platform.
Is it a fresh start for you and me, or for engagement clout chasing influencers making money off our attention?
Going viral doesn’t happen by chance.
The reality of powerful paid organizing behind media promotion.
Twitter was just a tool, a tavern that’s changed hands.
It’s not the world, it never was – even at its height, only a small percentage of Americans were ever even on Twitter.
The grass is not that much greener on the blue sky.
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