Re:Information overload helps fake news spread
by bosswipe on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:50PM
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If I may paraphrase you, "it feels (without evidence) like there's a giant conspiracy across many organizations involving hundreds or thousands of people acting in coordination, this implies an unknown secret powerful central propaganda ministry that hatches plans to further upcoming moves".
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Re:Information overload helps fake news spread
by bosswipe on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:42PM
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I suspect that their is some level of coordination and conspiracy across right-wing propaganda channels such as your clip from Sinclair stations. Though all those Sinclair stations are one organization.
But your suspicioun that Scientific American is in the know of a coming push for censorship and is tayloring propaganda on that basis makes absolutely no sense to me.
Re:Information overload helps fake news spread
by specialist on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:26AM
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Belatedly...
Someone needs to update Herman's propaganda model to include how social media works.
The filters are the same, of course.
But the balance of power has shifted. eg Aggregators are now much more powerful than Advertisers.
The update should also reflect how Twitter (for example) is now exploited to shape narratives. There's always been astroturf, but now it's much more effective. What Phillip Howard (Lie Machines) calls "computational propaganda".