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

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Executive Summary Advertising technology has built a massive technical infrastructure. The technology and motivations of advertising undergird the economy of the internet. News sites are no exception. The information we seek about our world is underpinned with, and shaped by, advertising and its needs. Journalists need to know more about these technologies, how they work, [...]

Guide to Advertising Technology

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 7 days ago

meme research

  • by Francis Tseng
  • 7 blocks • 16 days ago
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 4 months 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 4 months 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

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 15 days 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...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 2 months ago

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