#informationwars — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #informationwars, aggregated by home.social.
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"The new front in the information wars: Lego-ganda. And it’s quickly gaining momentum at a time when viral images of war can shape public opinion.
China used it for public relations during Covid. Last year, Russia and its allies used it to sway Moldova during their elections. Legos were used to send a warning to Ukrainians as the country was launching a new recruitment drive—to eerie effect. In the image, a white Lego logo set in a red background floats in a sunny sky, emblazoned with two words in Ukrainian: “Sorrow Cubes.”
An AI generated image said to be made by Russian groups, shared as Ukraine was recruiting new soldiers. The Lego logo was replaced by a Ukrainian language alternative: ‘Sorrow Cubes.’ The other message says: ‘The best way to deliver bad news.’
Cartoons and toys have long been used by governments to rally their people and whip up fear against enemies. During this war Iran is cutting videos based on Japanese-style anime and the Pixar movie “Inside Out.”
But Lego stands out for its massive footprint across the world, with revenues reaching $13 billion last year. If people didn’t grow up playing with the bricks, which began production in their current form in the 1950s, there’s a good chance their children did. And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
“Lego works because it is a universally recognized cultural cue, and cultural cues carry preloaded emotional associations that may bypass critical processing,” says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent technology consultant and a visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. “The familiar aesthetic lowers the audience’s guard precisely when a political payload is delivered.”"
https://www.wsj.com/world/lego-ai-propaganda-wars-iran-ab29cc6c
#Propaganda #PropagandaWars #Memes #Lego #InformationWars #Trolling
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"The new front in the information wars: Lego-ganda. And it’s quickly gaining momentum at a time when viral images of war can shape public opinion.
China used it for public relations during Covid. Last year, Russia and its allies used it to sway Moldova during their elections. Legos were used to send a warning to Ukrainians as the country was launching a new recruitment drive—to eerie effect. In the image, a white Lego logo set in a red background floats in a sunny sky, emblazoned with two words in Ukrainian: “Sorrow Cubes.”
An AI generated image said to be made by Russian groups, shared as Ukraine was recruiting new soldiers. The Lego logo was replaced by a Ukrainian language alternative: ‘Sorrow Cubes.’ The other message says: ‘The best way to deliver bad news.’
Cartoons and toys have long been used by governments to rally their people and whip up fear against enemies. During this war Iran is cutting videos based on Japanese-style anime and the Pixar movie “Inside Out.”
But Lego stands out for its massive footprint across the world, with revenues reaching $13 billion last year. If people didn’t grow up playing with the bricks, which began production in their current form in the 1950s, there’s a good chance their children did. And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
“Lego works because it is a universally recognized cultural cue, and cultural cues carry preloaded emotional associations that may bypass critical processing,” says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent technology consultant and a visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. “The familiar aesthetic lowers the audience’s guard precisely when a political payload is delivered.”"
https://www.wsj.com/world/lego-ai-propaganda-wars-iran-ab29cc6c
#Propaganda #PropagandaWars #Memes #Lego #InformationWars #Trolling
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"The new front in the information wars: Lego-ganda. And it’s quickly gaining momentum at a time when viral images of war can shape public opinion.
China used it for public relations during Covid. Last year, Russia and its allies used it to sway Moldova during their elections. Legos were used to send a warning to Ukrainians as the country was launching a new recruitment drive—to eerie effect. In the image, a white Lego logo set in a red background floats in a sunny sky, emblazoned with two words in Ukrainian: “Sorrow Cubes.”
An AI generated image said to be made by Russian groups, shared as Ukraine was recruiting new soldiers. The Lego logo was replaced by a Ukrainian language alternative: ‘Sorrow Cubes.’ The other message says: ‘The best way to deliver bad news.’
Cartoons and toys have long been used by governments to rally their people and whip up fear against enemies. During this war Iran is cutting videos based on Japanese-style anime and the Pixar movie “Inside Out.”
But Lego stands out for its massive footprint across the world, with revenues reaching $13 billion last year. If people didn’t grow up playing with the bricks, which began production in their current form in the 1950s, there’s a good chance their children did. And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
“Lego works because it is a universally recognized cultural cue, and cultural cues carry preloaded emotional associations that may bypass critical processing,” says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent technology consultant and a visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. “The familiar aesthetic lowers the audience’s guard precisely when a political payload is delivered.”"
https://www.wsj.com/world/lego-ai-propaganda-wars-iran-ab29cc6c
#Propaganda #PropagandaWars #Memes #Lego #InformationWars #Trolling
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"The new front in the information wars: Lego-ganda. And it’s quickly gaining momentum at a time when viral images of war can shape public opinion.
China used it for public relations during Covid. Last year, Russia and its allies used it to sway Moldova during their elections. Legos were used to send a warning to Ukrainians as the country was launching a new recruitment drive—to eerie effect. In the image, a white Lego logo set in a red background floats in a sunny sky, emblazoned with two words in Ukrainian: “Sorrow Cubes.”
An AI generated image said to be made by Russian groups, shared as Ukraine was recruiting new soldiers. The Lego logo was replaced by a Ukrainian language alternative: ‘Sorrow Cubes.’ The other message says: ‘The best way to deliver bad news.’
Cartoons and toys have long been used by governments to rally their people and whip up fear against enemies. During this war Iran is cutting videos based on Japanese-style anime and the Pixar movie “Inside Out.”
But Lego stands out for its massive footprint across the world, with revenues reaching $13 billion last year. If people didn’t grow up playing with the bricks, which began production in their current form in the 1950s, there’s a good chance their children did. And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
“Lego works because it is a universally recognized cultural cue, and cultural cues carry preloaded emotional associations that may bypass critical processing,” says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent technology consultant and a visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. “The familiar aesthetic lowers the audience’s guard precisely when a political payload is delivered.”"
https://www.wsj.com/world/lego-ai-propaganda-wars-iran-ab29cc6c
#Propaganda #PropagandaWars #Memes #Lego #InformationWars #Trolling
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"The new front in the information wars: Lego-ganda. And it’s quickly gaining momentum at a time when viral images of war can shape public opinion.
China used it for public relations during Covid. Last year, Russia and its allies used it to sway Moldova during their elections. Legos were used to send a warning to Ukrainians as the country was launching a new recruitment drive—to eerie effect. In the image, a white Lego logo set in a red background floats in a sunny sky, emblazoned with two words in Ukrainian: “Sorrow Cubes.”
An AI generated image said to be made by Russian groups, shared as Ukraine was recruiting new soldiers. The Lego logo was replaced by a Ukrainian language alternative: ‘Sorrow Cubes.’ The other message says: ‘The best way to deliver bad news.’
Cartoons and toys have long been used by governments to rally their people and whip up fear against enemies. During this war Iran is cutting videos based on Japanese-style anime and the Pixar movie “Inside Out.”
But Lego stands out for its massive footprint across the world, with revenues reaching $13 billion last year. If people didn’t grow up playing with the bricks, which began production in their current form in the 1950s, there’s a good chance their children did. And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
“Lego works because it is a universally recognized cultural cue, and cultural cues carry preloaded emotional associations that may bypass critical processing,” says Lukasz Olejnik, an independent technology consultant and a visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. “The familiar aesthetic lowers the audience’s guard precisely when a political payload is delivered.”"
https://www.wsj.com/world/lego-ai-propaganda-wars-iran-ab29cc6c
#Propaganda #PropagandaWars #Memes #Lego #InformationWars #Trolling
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Google's TAG disrupts over 13,000 coordinated influence operations in Q3 2024: TAG's Q3 2024 bulletin reveals surge in Russian and Chinese influence campaigns, with increased focus on geopolitical narratives. https://ppc.land/googles-tag-disrupts-over-13-000-coordinated-influence-operations-in-q3-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleTAG #InfluenceOperations #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #InformationWars
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Google's TAG disrupts over 13,000 coordinated influence operations in Q3 2024: TAG's Q3 2024 bulletin reveals surge in Russian and Chinese influence campaigns, with increased focus on geopolitical narratives. https://ppc.land/googles-tag-disrupts-over-13-000-coordinated-influence-operations-in-q3-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleTAG #InfluenceOperations #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #InformationWars
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Google's TAG disrupts over 13,000 coordinated influence operations in Q3 2024: TAG's Q3 2024 bulletin reveals surge in Russian and Chinese influence campaigns, with increased focus on geopolitical narratives. https://ppc.land/googles-tag-disrupts-over-13-000-coordinated-influence-operations-in-q3-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleTAG #InfluenceOperations #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #InformationWars
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Google's TAG disrupts over 13,000 coordinated influence operations in Q3 2024: TAG's Q3 2024 bulletin reveals surge in Russian and Chinese influence campaigns, with increased focus on geopolitical narratives. https://ppc.land/googles-tag-disrupts-over-13-000-coordinated-influence-operations-in-q3-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleTAG #InfluenceOperations #Geopolitics #CyberSecurity #InformationWars
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“'Reality' is invented for you by people who design it like a choreography; there must be an office somewhere in Washington, with people you've never heard of, that design reality. 👉It’s not just about what will be the next event to pop up, but rather what will be the interpretation of a given international event👈. And this needs to be distributed everywhere through the media, without anyone asking questions about it." -Zappa
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#InformationWars #ThinkTanks #Geopolitics
"Justice for Kurds is a US-based non-profit group created in 2017. It says it is a “Franco-American” initiative “created to defend a loyal friend of the West: The Kurdish people ... But Why Are There Two ‘Justice for Kurds’ Organizations? On #Cutouts and #FrontGroups in Geopolitics -
The #InformationWars™ precede the #WaterWars™
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The #InformationWars™ precede the #WaterWars™
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The #InformationWars™ precede the #WaterWars™
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The #InformationWars™ precede the #WaterWars™
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The #InformationWars™ precede the #WaterWars™
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Everyone here is a veteran SeaBee of the #InformationWars with multiple commendations for still on-going psy ops.
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Everyone here is a veteran SeaBee of the #InformationWars with multiple commendations for still on-going psy ops.
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Everyone here is a veteran SeaBee of the #InformationWars with multiple commendations for still on-going psy ops.
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Everyone here is a veteran SeaBee of the #InformationWars with multiple commendations for still on-going psy ops.
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Everyone here is a veteran SeaBee of the #InformationWars with multiple commendations for still on-going psy ops.
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@jackwilliambell
One cannot fight a #CultureWar battle in one front of the #InformationWars if you aren’t aware of the privileged position that you are in. -
@jackwilliambell
One cannot fight a #CultureWar battle in one front of the #InformationWars if you aren’t aware of the privileged position that you are in. -
@jackwilliambell
One cannot fight a #CultureWar battle in one front of the #InformationWars if you aren’t aware of the privileged position that you are in. -
@jackwilliambell
One cannot fight a #CultureWar battle in one front of the #InformationWars if you aren’t aware of the privileged position that you are in. -
@jackwilliambell
One cannot fight a #CultureWar battle in one front of the #InformationWars if you aren’t aware of the privileged position that you are in. -
John Robb @ Global Guerrillas
"#Israel might think that it is in a war with #Hamas. It isn’t. It’s in an online war with a global, networked tribe for its very existence. A war it is losing."
"The Anti-Israel Swarm
Anti-Israel protests are showing up everywhere. Censorship, police crackdowns, and social threats (you won't get a job) aren't working. Here's why."Subscribe/Paywalled, but the snippet is worth a read. https://johnrobb.substack.com/p/the-anti-israel-swarm-422 #StudentSpring #StudentProtests #Gaza #InformationWars
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@tuban_muzuru @GeePawHill
I have a whole thesis around middle-school girls in 2011, iPhones, social networks, peer pressure, digital ostracization, therapy, mental health, and culture wars.#technology #society #education #culture #SocialMedia #trauma #MentalHealth #InformationWars #parenting #GenZ #BabyBoomers
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@tuban_muzuru @GeePawHill
I have a whole thesis around middle-school girls in 2011, iPhones, social networks, peer pressure, digital ostracization, therapy, mental health, and culture wars.#technology #society #education #culture #SocialMedia #trauma #MentalHealth #InformationWars #parenting #GenZ #BabyBoomers
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@tuban_muzuru @GeePawHill
I have a whole thesis around middle-school girls in 2011, iPhones, social networks, peer pressure, digital ostracization, therapy, mental health, and culture wars.#technology #society #education #culture #SocialMedia #trauma #MentalHealth #InformationWars #parenting #GenZ #BabyBoomers
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@tuban_muzuru @GeePawHill
I have a whole thesis around middle-school girls in 2011, iPhones, social networks, peer pressure, digital ostracization, therapy, mental health, and culture wars.#technology #society #education #culture #SocialMedia #trauma #MentalHealth #InformationWars #parenting #GenZ #BabyBoomers
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@tuban_muzuru @GeePawHill
I have a whole thesis around middle-school girls in 2011, iPhones, social networks, peer pressure, digital ostracization, therapy, mental health, and culture wars.#technology #society #education #culture #SocialMedia #trauma #MentalHealth #InformationWars #parenting #GenZ #BabyBoomers
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Mindwash, The Media and You - #InformationWars.
Jackson Browne's Information Wars (with cameos) overlaid with pertinent imagery, and vignettes from the Media & Democracy Congress I, San Francisco, 1997. 418x240px
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PSA from Naomi Klein:
This Giving Tuesday, support the publication that sees news as a right for all. #News #GivingTuesday #democracy #InformationWars -
PSA from Naomi Klein:
This Giving Tuesday, support the publication that sees news as a right for all. #News #GivingTuesday #democracy #InformationWars -
PSA from Naomi Klein:
This Giving Tuesday, support the publication that sees news as a right for all. #News #GivingTuesday #democracy #InformationWars -
PSA from Naomi Klein:
This Giving Tuesday, support the publication that sees news as a right for all. #News #GivingTuesday #democracy #InformationWars -
PSA from Naomi Klein:
This Giving Tuesday, support the publication that sees news as a right for all. #News #GivingTuesday #democracy #InformationWars