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The TL-DR is this - There is a complex psy-op being run at the moment; but it's mainly (and ironically) conspiracy theorists who are the actual victims.
As we all know, social media (Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Telegram, Snapchat, 8kun, 4chan, Truth Social, Reddit, TikTok, Google etc) and Mobile companies (Apple, Samsung, Huawei) etc are in the business of collecting metadata on their customers. It's the principal means of how those companies make money, and why they exist.
They collect metadata, and then (via the use of complex algorithms) 'suggest' content to users or sell that metadata to advertisers (and others). They can quite literally use that metadata to create scarily accurate psychological profiles of an individual user. There is a reason Facebook is banned by the Russians and the Chinese (just like the West ban Huawei) and both nations have an extensive national firewall.
For example, just from a scrape of the metadata on your phone, I could tell:
At present, with just a basic metadata scrape, I can then construct an algorithm to figure out what kind of person you are, what you engage with, and what makes you tick, and then to 'suggest' content that re-enforces a particular worldview, or suggest things for you to spend money on, or target advertisements to you.
Or target you with a particular political message.
In the case of Cambridge Analytica and the Internet Research Agency this is exactly what they did. They used that metadata to literally brainwash people into thinking a totally different worldview, by reinforcing a particular view of reality, in opposition to a different view of reality. Armed with metadata collected from social media sites, they pushed fake news, misinformation, and conspiracy theories out to people the algorithm had decided were vulnerable to it. Those people then went further and further down the rabbit hole, as their computers 'suggested' additional content, that re-enforced this particular world view. They liked and shared this misinformation, spreading the insanity to other people.
Governments are already using this data to brainwash people. Either directly (in the case of the Internet Research Agency in the Kremlin) or via third parties (in the case of Cambridge Analytica).
So called 'influencers' (grifters I prefer to call them) also rely on this phenomenon. This can range from something as benign as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) all the way to Lauren Southern/ Alex Jones shit, where they post an outrageous made-up video on YouTube about 'the White Replacement', or 'the sun cures COVID' or 'Satanic Paedo's are breeding bloodlines while also cloning children in a bio-lab in Ukraine' or whatever and rely on the algorithms on social media to do the rest. Right leaning (or conspiracy vulnerable) people start getting videos like this 'suggested' to them (videos their own computer already knows they'll watch and believe) and before long they wind up radicalized, fervently believing a bizarre set of 'truths', and generally socially isolated by peers in the real world (ironically further entrenching those radical and extreme views). Meanwhile the 'influencer' makes money via monetized advertising, sponsorship, affiliates, donations, patreon accounts, or other forms of grift.
Reddits Qanon casualties' thread is one example of tens of thousands of victims of this phenomena. Ditto sorryantivaxxer with stories of tens of thousands of real-world people who were clearly radicalized into anti-vaxx positions online (slathering the shit all over Facebook) and are now dead from COVID. See also Sov Cits (including the three who murdered those people in QLD, pausing only to post a video to YouTube) and a growing number of Incel mass shooting attacks (livestreamed and influenced by 4chan and 8kun).
Here is a local example:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...s/news-story/9ca49efcb1d923e947af381f0fcdd51c
You think you're 'doing your own research' and are one of the select few that 'get it' but you're not. Your computer (and the algorithms in it) are leading you down a rabbit hole and warping your perception of reality. In the conspiracy and far right-wing world this is often called being 'red-pilled' by those that embrace it. For everyone else, it's generally called 'getting cooked'.
The psy-op is so insidious, that the very people that get sucked into it (i.e. conspiracy theorists) dont even realize that they're the actual victims (and participants) in the actual psy-op, which is deliberately designed to get them to believe kooky shit.
I'll pause for a second (before any of you accuse me of political bias) and say the above phenomena also happens to 'left' leaning people. Many of whom got sucked down the COVID conspiracy rabbit hole, or alternatively got 'wokeness' so ingrained in them (via the same re-enforcing paradigm), that they're as radical as the far right Incel crowd, cancelling everything left right and center and clutching pearls at anything not waving an inclusive rainbow flag.
I implore you guys who post here to stop and consider, that you're actually caught up in this psy-op. You're the victims of the very conspiracy you've been looking for all these years.
I'll finish for anyone skeptical at this point (despite the above being objectively true) and get you all to ask yourselves; before computers, and especially before social media (say 10 years ago) were your views pretty radically different to what they are now? Sit back for a second, be honest with yourself and think:
'Have my thoughts and beliefs changed in the past 10 years, since social media became thing? Do I now sit on my computer a lot more than I used to and absorb information via the (biased) lens of my electronic device and its algorithms which are designed to tell me.... exactly what I now think is true? Have I become more socially isolated, and my views become more radical and polarized? Have I always been pro-vaccine, but now I find myself regularly being called out for posting anti-vaxx misinformation? Do I find myself knowing a shitload about US Politics (Trump, Biden, Pelosi) but next to **** all about Australian politics? Have I been reading a lot of people talking about 'international bankers and cabals of wealthy Jews and Jesuits and Masons secretly running the world? Do I find myself suddenly cheering on or ambivalent towards Russia, and thinking about 'Biolabs' and 'microchips?'
If the answer to any part of that question is 'yes', you're a victim.
As we all know, social media (Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Telegram, Snapchat, 8kun, 4chan, Truth Social, Reddit, TikTok, Google etc) and Mobile companies (Apple, Samsung, Huawei) etc are in the business of collecting metadata on their customers. It's the principal means of how those companies make money, and why they exist.
They collect metadata, and then (via the use of complex algorithms) 'suggest' content to users or sell that metadata to advertisers (and others). They can quite literally use that metadata to create scarily accurate psychological profiles of an individual user. There is a reason Facebook is banned by the Russians and the Chinese (just like the West ban Huawei) and both nations have an extensive national firewall.
For example, just from a scrape of the metadata on your phone, I could tell:
- Where you sleep at night, where you live, what route you take to work, where you work, and any other regular movements you make (GPS)
- Your health status and likelihood to be concerned about your health (health and heartbeat monitors and apps and steps counters, plus Google searches and your amount of engagement with sites and apps that deal with health issues)
- Your pr0n habits and sexual kinks and orientation (Google search history)
- Your political alignment, levels of engagement (via social media, and app usage like Truth Social)
- Your spending habits (banking apps, Samsung/ Apple/ Google pay) likelihood to spend money on something following a 'suggestion' by the algorithm.
- Your relationship status and dating successes and whether you're an Incel or not (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge etc, and your rates of engagement with it, and amount of matches you get)
- Your hobbies (social media, app usage, search history)
- Your date of birth, social class, wealth, gender, and race.
- Your taste in music (Spotify, iTunes)
- Whatever images are in your photo and video folders.
- How popular you are (number of friends on apps like Facebook and Instagram, and amount of engagement)
At present, with just a basic metadata scrape, I can then construct an algorithm to figure out what kind of person you are, what you engage with, and what makes you tick, and then to 'suggest' content that re-enforces a particular worldview, or suggest things for you to spend money on, or target advertisements to you.
Or target you with a particular political message.
In the case of Cambridge Analytica and the Internet Research Agency this is exactly what they did. They used that metadata to literally brainwash people into thinking a totally different worldview, by reinforcing a particular view of reality, in opposition to a different view of reality. Armed with metadata collected from social media sites, they pushed fake news, misinformation, and conspiracy theories out to people the algorithm had decided were vulnerable to it. Those people then went further and further down the rabbit hole, as their computers 'suggested' additional content, that re-enforced this particular world view. They liked and shared this misinformation, spreading the insanity to other people.
Governments are already using this data to brainwash people. Either directly (in the case of the Internet Research Agency in the Kremlin) or via third parties (in the case of Cambridge Analytica).
So called 'influencers' (grifters I prefer to call them) also rely on this phenomenon. This can range from something as benign as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) all the way to Lauren Southern/ Alex Jones shit, where they post an outrageous made-up video on YouTube about 'the White Replacement', or 'the sun cures COVID' or 'Satanic Paedo's are breeding bloodlines while also cloning children in a bio-lab in Ukraine' or whatever and rely on the algorithms on social media to do the rest. Right leaning (or conspiracy vulnerable) people start getting videos like this 'suggested' to them (videos their own computer already knows they'll watch and believe) and before long they wind up radicalized, fervently believing a bizarre set of 'truths', and generally socially isolated by peers in the real world (ironically further entrenching those radical and extreme views). Meanwhile the 'influencer' makes money via monetized advertising, sponsorship, affiliates, donations, patreon accounts, or other forms of grift.
Reddits Qanon casualties' thread is one example of tens of thousands of victims of this phenomena. Ditto sorryantivaxxer with stories of tens of thousands of real-world people who were clearly radicalized into anti-vaxx positions online (slathering the shit all over Facebook) and are now dead from COVID. See also Sov Cits (including the three who murdered those people in QLD, pausing only to post a video to YouTube) and a growing number of Incel mass shooting attacks (livestreamed and influenced by 4chan and 8kun).
Here is a local example:
“My husband was normal up until Covid and now he isn’t the same person,” she said.
“We do have moments where he is his old self. However, he believes in all sorts of things, and can even contradict himself in the same sentence.
“I have heard everything from the vaccine will kill you, to Trump, to change of the money system, to we need to buy silver, to child trafficking, to the world is flat, to they are trying to starve us/kill us. You name it, my husband believes it.”
The wife blamed her husband’s unwelcome transformation on the online community that spread rapidly during the pandemic.
“Social media and certain websites (BitChute in particular) have led to his downfall even though he can’t see it,” she said, adding that his new-found beliefs had seriously damaged his closest relationships.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...s/news-story/9ca49efcb1d923e947af381f0fcdd51c
You think you're 'doing your own research' and are one of the select few that 'get it' but you're not. Your computer (and the algorithms in it) are leading you down a rabbit hole and warping your perception of reality. In the conspiracy and far right-wing world this is often called being 'red-pilled' by those that embrace it. For everyone else, it's generally called 'getting cooked'.
The psy-op is so insidious, that the very people that get sucked into it (i.e. conspiracy theorists) dont even realize that they're the actual victims (and participants) in the actual psy-op, which is deliberately designed to get them to believe kooky shit.
I'll pause for a second (before any of you accuse me of political bias) and say the above phenomena also happens to 'left' leaning people. Many of whom got sucked down the COVID conspiracy rabbit hole, or alternatively got 'wokeness' so ingrained in them (via the same re-enforcing paradigm), that they're as radical as the far right Incel crowd, cancelling everything left right and center and clutching pearls at anything not waving an inclusive rainbow flag.
I implore you guys who post here to stop and consider, that you're actually caught up in this psy-op. You're the victims of the very conspiracy you've been looking for all these years.
I'll finish for anyone skeptical at this point (despite the above being objectively true) and get you all to ask yourselves; before computers, and especially before social media (say 10 years ago) were your views pretty radically different to what they are now? Sit back for a second, be honest with yourself and think:
'Have my thoughts and beliefs changed in the past 10 years, since social media became thing? Do I now sit on my computer a lot more than I used to and absorb information via the (biased) lens of my electronic device and its algorithms which are designed to tell me.... exactly what I now think is true? Have I become more socially isolated, and my views become more radical and polarized? Have I always been pro-vaccine, but now I find myself regularly being called out for posting anti-vaxx misinformation? Do I find myself knowing a shitload about US Politics (Trump, Biden, Pelosi) but next to **** all about Australian politics? Have I been reading a lot of people talking about 'international bankers and cabals of wealthy Jews and Jesuits and Masons secretly running the world? Do I find myself suddenly cheering on or ambivalent towards Russia, and thinking about 'Biolabs' and 'microchips?'
If the answer to any part of that question is 'yes', you're a victim.