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The War We’re In. Part Two. Exclusive. Erik Prince was building a weapon of mass disinformation intended to attack Iran over social media in 2015. His former business partner believes he deployed the WMD targeting the U.S. instead. Zev Shalev searches for the invisible weapon and wonders if it's...
Phenomenal work, sir!
Thank you, Tom
Several of the companies you mention were also involved in the psyop Qanon which successfully achieved multiple aims of rallying the disengaged,propagating lies and disinformation and even promoting DJT as biblical. It showed that the masses would go for an alternate truth if it had enough of what they wanted in it. ‘Facts=what supports my narrative,lies= what ‘they’ say. The ‘truth ‘ can be made of lies. CA and ai have basically killed off democracy and raised state manipulation to a new level.
Great summary, Mr. Shalev. Thank you. I’m happy that there is more awareness in the West of how such online warfare works and there are folks who are tackling it. Unfortunately, as long as anyone can create email and social media accounts anonymously, these troubles will continue. A kid can create 1000 Twitter accounts and use readily available tools to spread the same message for his own gain. If Twitter detects automation, then those accounts can be managed manually. A nation can do 1000% more.