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hearts and minds ~~ psyops, military memetics, neuro-cognitive & non-kinetic warfare, propaganda

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Like Russia, Iran has been trying to disguise the fact that it's behind a plethora of social-media accounts and websites whose content furthers its geopolitical interests. The news: An investigation by Reuters has found dozens of social-media accounts and at least 10 websites that are linked to an Iranian online influence campaign.

The vast scale of Iran's online...

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Updated 16 days ago

As the Arab Spring convulsed the Middle East in 2011 and authoritarian leaders toppled one after another, I traveled the region to try to understand the role that technology was playing. I chatted with protesters in cafés near Tahrir Square in Cairo, and many asserted that as long as they had the internet and the smartphone, they would prevail.

How social media took us from Tahrir...

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Updated 16 days ago

The word meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, in which he suggested that ideas could replicate, evolve, and enter popular culture in a process analogous to the way genes spread.

This is where internet memes come from

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Updated 3 months ago

It doesn't get more 2018 than this: In mid-April, a Trump-supporting Instagram influencer named Bermuda hacked the account of fellow influencer Lil Miquela, who has over a million followers. Wait, no, there's more: Bermuda refused to return the account unless Miquela promised to "tell the world the truth"-the truth being that Miquela is not a human being.

CGI 'Influencers' Like Lil Miquela Are...

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Updated 2 months ago

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Updated 5 months ago

How do you change someone's behavior? Most of us would point to education or persuasion. But what if the answer lies elsewhere? Today we explore a revolutionary insight about human nature, one that will take us on a journey from Budapest to the hills of Rwanda.

Romeo and Juliet in Kigali - Hidden...

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Updated 5 months ago

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