Russian Whistleblower Explains How Propaganda Works On Social Media

[blondebanshee]

Russian author & whistleblower
Zarina Zabrisky explains how Russia is meddling in your social media feed right now, and dispels some myths about modern propaganda

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[2naSalit]

1. K&R

I don't know if this qualifies as whistleblower but exposure of tactics is quite helpful.

[StClone]

2. Ah Social Control Media

[Leith]

3. Interesting

The basic "divide and conquer" stategy.

Well, it sure does work.

And it's going to make me look extra hard at the "gosh I'm so depressed" threads that have popped up lately. Yeah, we could be feeling better, but I'm not going to swirl down into the depths of despair that some of us have shared with the board.

[Sugarcoated]

4. And this is why I do what I do on social media

[Bev54]

5. What is with the background music

Is this Russia meddling with the video?

[consider_this]

7. That music was insane

not sure what was more disturbing - the info or the music - guess they multiplied the effect.

[Bev54]

9. I found it difficult to hear her through the music.

[Enoki33]

6. One has to wonder how effective this strategy would be without the

help of magnification by the whitehouse and afflicted hate media who are in effect knowing Russian tools giving themselves over to betrayal of their country.

[consider_this]

8. seems like *rump playbook. EOM

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Fantastic!

Propaganda today uses splits and vulnerabilities that already exist in society,

Brilliant.

Decades ago I read Jerzy Kosinski's Painted Bird and it planted an idea in my head that was never confirmed by any other source at that period in time. The book is fiction, but each chapter tells the story of a boy's wandering existence around the countryside, and his experiences with people he encounters. They were horrible stories. Each family was worse than the last one he escaped. But that's when it occurred to me, that if fiction mimics real life, and there are people as prejudicial as the ones the boy encountered in his wandering, then it would explain why Hitler was able to galvanized them to conduct the horrors the soldiers performed. The prejudices were always there. Hitler just had to tap into them.

[Midnight Writer]

11. This is a variation on Group Control we used in Europe following WWII.

It was developed by the Rand think tank, and later adopted by businesses and advertisers.