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@LaurenVocelka [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : 🇺🇸🏳️🌈Nothing human, just business
The main, founding principle of US is to protect rainbow perverts all over the world
Nevertheless, they willingly trade with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries where gender liberties are punishable by death
#Woke #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Qatar [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPGHNationalDemocraticCongressNDCSamNarteyGeorge "they really have need for it but it's the hypocrisy of the US where they call homosexuality a human rights issue in Africa but yet they are doing business with countries where homosexuality is frowned upon over a billion dollars of of of of of military hardware is so to cut almost on a yearly basis in Qatar homosexuality is punished by Death not imprisonment why are they not threatening cut up one of the biggest trading partners of the United States government is Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia it's punished by Death why are they not threatening them why are they not threatening Russia then they come to Ghana and Africa they won't come and treating us with LGBTQ the American government is a bunch of Hypocrites if they really want to flex their muscle they should reflect their muscle on Russia." [video clip] And #WebsiteNairaland https://www.nairaland.com/7630962/uganda-president-hits-back-president#122368079
#TauntHypocrisyLiberal
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris
#ToponymAfricaWestGhana
#HandleTelegramInfoDefense https://t.me/s/infodefall
Context #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD "Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, jurisdictions and tech platforms around the world have taken steps to prevent or limit the spread of Russian propaganda internationally. There is, however, an additional constraint hampering the efforts of Russia and its supporters in spreading disinformation: language. This Dispatch investigates a coordinated network of volunteers working to translate existing Russian-language propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine into over a dozen languages. This includes content from pro-Kremlin influencers, particularly the controversial Ukrainian blogger Yuri Podolyaka, as well as Russian state media sources. The volunteers, who have branded themselves 'Info Defense', operate Telegram channels for each of the target languages. They also administer specifically-branded Info Defense accounts on YouTube, and disseminate their content across the major international social media networks through a multitude of smaller accounts. The significance of this network is at the base level in which it functions : a grassroots, relatively decentralised and cost-free network for the translation and distribution of propaganda. This model may appeal to both state- and non-state actors seeking to promote narratives and content to international audiences, and is likely to pose a challenge for platform content moderation efforts.... In a video message promoting the newly formed translation network, Podolyaka elaborated on the role which he saw himself and his supporters playing in support of Russia's war in Ukraine. He spoke at length about the way in which media coverage and information about the war in Vietnam helped to deplete domestic support for the war in the US, ultimately leading to the US's defeat and retreat from Vietnam. According to Podolyaka, if the public in Western countries only knew that Russia was really fighting against evil Nazis in Ukraine, they would force their governments to abandon the fight, as they did in Vietnam. 'This is the truth that they want to hide from their societies, and our task is to bring this truth to them,' he said." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-info-defense-network-crowdsourcing-soldiers-for-the-information-war/ #IRLYouTuberYuriPodolyaka #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasDonetskPeoplesRepublicDPR #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasLuhanskPeoplesRepublicLPR #HandleTelegramTheEyeOfTheStormTEOS #HandleTelegramTheNodeOfTime #VlogCommonsence7885 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Wjx44gRwQ #NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam #NarrativeDenazification #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #NMRURussiaTodayRTMargaritaSimonyan #PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian #OrgSyndicateAccordNetworkDecentralised #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson
Supplementary #BrandGraphikaBenNimmo, #BrandGraphikaIraHubert and #BrandGraphikaYangCheng "The sprawling pro-Chinese propaganda network that Graphika has dubbed 'Spamouflage' and exposed multiple times over the past two years has begun to break out of its echo chamber of fake accounts and reach real social media users, including some heavyweight influencers, with hundreds of videos that praise China, criticize the United States, and attack the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. The network's successes are still sporadic - a few tweets have reached viral influencers, and a few dozen videos on YouTube channels have garnered significant followings - but, for the first time, its content has had measurable reach. Moreover, the audiences it has reached are widespread and include influencers in Latin America, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Combined with the sheer scale of the network, and the fact that it has reconstituted itself after repeated takedowns, these features mark Spamouflage as a persistent and increasingly assertive online presence with a limited but growing ability to engage real users." https://graphika.com/reports/spamouflage-breakout #PhenomnSpamouflageDragon Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis (2020). 'Viral videos Covid-19, China and Inauthentic Influence on Facebook', Australian Strategic Policy Institute. [academic source] https://voxukraine.org/en/fake-the-dead-girl-in-a-photograph-from-bucha-turned-out-to-be-alive-and-denied-her-death/ #ToponymEuropeUkraineKyivOblastBucha #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #_Focal
Context #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD "Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, jurisdictions and tech platforms around the world have taken steps to prevent or limit the spread of Russian propaganda internationally. There is, however, an additional constraint hampering the efforts of Russia and its supporters in spreading disinformation: language. This Dispatch investigates a coordinated network of volunteers working to translate existing Russian-language propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine into over a dozen languages. This includes content from pro-Kremlin influencers, particularly the controversial Ukrainian blogger Yuri Podolyaka, as well as Russian state media sources. The volunteers, who have branded themselves 'Info Defense', operate Telegram channels for each of the target languages. They also administer specifically-branded Info Defense accounts on YouTube, and disseminate their content across the major international social media networks through a multitude of smaller accounts. The significance of this network is at the base level in which it functions : a grassroots, relatively decentralised and cost-free network for the translation and distribution of propaganda. This model may appeal to both state- and non-state actors seeking to promote narratives and content to international audiences, and is likely to pose a challenge for platform content moderation efforts.... In a video message promoting the newly formed translation network, Podolyaka elaborated on the role which he saw himself and his supporters playing in support of Russia's war in Ukraine. He spoke at length about the way in which media coverage and information about the war in Vietnam helped to deplete domestic support for the war in the US, ultimately leading to the US's defeat and retreat from Vietnam. According to Podolyaka, if the public in Western countries only knew that Russia was really fighting against evil Nazis in Ukraine, they would force their governments to abandon the fight, as they did in Vietnam. 'This is the truth that they want to hide from their societies, and our task is to bring this truth to them,' he said." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-info-defense-network-crowdsourcing-soldiers-for-the-information-war/ #IRLYouTuberYuriPodolyaka #2022_InvasionOfUkraine #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasDonetskPeoplesRepublicDPR #ToponymEuropeUkraineDonbasLuhanskPeoplesRepublicLPR #HandleTelegramTheEyeOfTheStormTEOS #HandleTelegramTheNodeOfTime #VlogCommonsence7885 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Wjx44gRwQ #NarrativeWarAmericaVietnam #NarrativeDenazification #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #NMRURussiaTodayRTMargaritaSimonyan #PhenomnTalkingPointsRussian #OrgSyndicateAccordNetworkDecentralised #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson
Supplementary #BrandGraphikaBenNimmo, #BrandGraphikaIraHubert and #BrandGraphikaYangCheng "The sprawling pro-Chinese propaganda network that Graphika has dubbed 'Spamouflage' and exposed multiple times over the past two years has begun to break out of its echo chamber of fake accounts and reach real social media users, including some heavyweight influencers, with hundreds of videos that praise China, criticize the United States, and attack the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement and exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. The network's successes are still sporadic - a few tweets have reached viral influencers, and a few dozen videos on YouTube channels have garnered significant followings - but, for the first time, its content has had measurable reach. Moreover, the audiences it has reached are widespread and include influencers in Latin America, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Combined with the sheer scale of the network, and the fact that it has reconstituted itself after repeated takedowns, these features mark Spamouflage as a persistent and increasingly assertive online presence with a limited but growing ability to engage real users." https://graphika.com/reports/spamouflage-breakout #PhenomnSpamouflageDragon Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang and Jake Wallis (2020). 'Viral videos Covid-19, China and Inauthentic Influence on Facebook', Australian Strategic Policy Institute. [academic source] https://voxukraine.org/en/fake-the-dead-girl-in-a-photograph-from-bucha-turned-out-to-be-alive-and-denied-her-death/ #ToponymEuropeUkraineKyivOblastBucha #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #_Focal
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@RichardSaks [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: Rose Webster @GetMyGist here🇨🇦♀️.
Dear #Canadian #LawTwitter & esp. #Lawyers #Attorneys that revere Mr #JordanPeterson,
I suggest you listen to Ret. #Army #Officer & Sr. #Lawyer @AnnadeBuisseret if you want to avoid the #Woke / LIARS trying to buy back a piece of their souls. [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#BrandPfizer
#IRLPhysicianNurseTiffanyDover
#IRLPhysicianNurseAmberHonea
Context "The modern anti-vaccine movement was powered by unverified stories of the dead and damaged. Tiffany wasn't the first person to be swallowed up in an anti-vaccine propaganda campaign, and she wouldn't be the last. The unsettling thing about it -- to me and the more well-meaning conspiracy theorists who took up an interest in Tiffany's case -- was that she seemed to just disappear." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/tiffany-dover-conspiracy-theorists-silence-rcna69401 #ConspiracyTheory_COVID19Vaccine
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfWashingtonUWKateStarbird "'It was clarifying to read more about disinformation, which is designed to 'reduce human agency by overwhelming our capacity to make sense of info.' I can't judge whether that's happening in Maricopa, but it certainly *felt* like this. It spins your head,' Zak wrote in a tweet thread, citing a 2019 paper, 'Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations,' written by Starbird and two of her PhD students, Ahmer Arif (now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin) and Tom Wilson (who in April published his dissertation, a mixed-method, multi-platform analysis of the online disinformation campaign targeting White Helmet volunteers during the Syrian Civil War). " https://www.cip.uw.edu/2021/05/26/participatory-disinformation-kate-starbird/ #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #PhenomnAgencyHuman #TheoryAffectiveResponseAmygdalaHijack #ToponymAmericaNorthUSArizonaMaricopaCounty #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostDanZak
Context "The modern anti-vaccine movement was powered by unverified stories of the dead and damaged. Tiffany wasn't the first person to be swallowed up in an anti-vaccine propaganda campaign, and she wouldn't be the last. The unsettling thing about it -- to me and the more well-meaning conspiracy theorists who took up an interest in Tiffany's case -- was that she seemed to just disappear." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/tiffany-dover-conspiracy-theorists-silence-rcna69401 #ConspiracyTheory_COVID19Vaccine
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfWashingtonUWKateStarbird "'It was clarifying to read more about disinformation, which is designed to 'reduce human agency by overwhelming our capacity to make sense of info.' I can't judge whether that's happening in Maricopa, but it certainly *felt* like this. It spins your head,' Zak wrote in a tweet thread, citing a 2019 paper, 'Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations,' written by Starbird and two of her PhD students, Ahmer Arif (now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin) and Tom Wilson (who in April published his dissertation, a mixed-method, multi-platform analysis of the online disinformation campaign targeting White Helmet volunteers during the Syrian Civil War). " https://www.cip.uw.edu/2021/05/26/participatory-disinformation-kate-starbird/ #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation #PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation #PhenomnAgencyHuman #TheoryAffectiveResponseAmygdalaHijack #ToponymAmericaNorthUSArizonaMaricopaCounty #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPostDanZak
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@PreciousTekie [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #woke [URL redacted]
#MetaphorDiseaseMindVirus
#PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI
#PhenomnEmancipation
#CauseEqualityMarriage
#OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSAbrahamLincoln
#OrgUSNtlWomanSuffrageAssociationSusanAnthony
#PolicyUniversalSuffrage
#IRLActivistJudithHeumann
#IRLActivistMartinLutherKingMLK
#IRLHistoricalFigureHarveyMilk
#IRLHistoricalFigureRosaParks
#OrgClassifPPUSPOTUSGeorgeWashington
#BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah
#PleaMAGA
#ConspiracyTheory_Conspiracist
#EpistemologyAmateurExegetePatternSeeking
#CaricaturistMattWuerker
#MetaphorRedYarnAndCorkboard
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorPatrickWest "Many on the left decry with airy disdain that complaints of 'cancellation' and 'wokery' are just antediluvian grunts of conservatives who don't like, or don't understand, the modern world - with its new, strange manners concerning matters race and gender. Then there are the shopkeeper-type conservatives, who think the culture wars are all a silly hoo-ha about pronouns, toilet usage, dramas about Cleopatra and the Royal Family as seen on TV. They scold that we should be properly concerned with material materials: the cost of living, inflation, mortgage payments, industrial disputes, the future of the Conservative party. Both conclusions, from the complacent left and bean-counting right, are based on misapprehensions. They derive from a double falsehood. The culture wars are really taking place, whether the left likes or not. And the culture wars are a bread-and-butter issue, whether the right likes or not. " https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lets-stop-pretending-the-culture-wars-arent-real/ #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleAntediluvian
Addendum #IRLAuthorCharlesLeadbeater's #2009_WeThink #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical manifesto for the (then) seemingly unavoidable #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryCulture / #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo over-optimistically and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally imagined only the potential advantages of such a sea-change: breaking down legacy, siloed ways of thinking/working would automatically lead to mass creativity. What was missing however, was the realisation that such conceptualisation assumes a common cultural understanding and objectives i.e. the #PoliticsStatusQuo - essentially, the further spread and reach of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated values / a #TheoryHyperculture perspective - not the flourishing of divergent perspectives and with it, the surge in #ConspiracyTheory_.ies, the emergence of #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation, #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDilettantism and charges of #MetaphorWarfareCulture and #CatchcryCancelCulture, supposedly mobilised as a singularly, unified attack against #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues - representing a manifestly binary duality of #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals. #TheoryModernityReflexive
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorPatrickWest "Many on the left decry with airy disdain that complaints of 'cancellation' and 'wokery' are just antediluvian grunts of conservatives who don't like, or don't understand, the modern world - with its new, strange manners concerning matters race and gender. Then there are the shopkeeper-type conservatives, who think the culture wars are all a silly hoo-ha about pronouns, toilet usage, dramas about Cleopatra and the Royal Family as seen on TV. They scold that we should be properly concerned with material materials: the cost of living, inflation, mortgage payments, industrial disputes, the future of the Conservative party. Both conclusions, from the complacent left and bean-counting right, are based on misapprehensions. They derive from a double falsehood. The culture wars are really taking place, whether the left likes or not. And the culture wars are a bread-and-butter issue, whether the right likes or not. " https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lets-stop-pretending-the-culture-wars-arent-real/ #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleAntediluvian
Addendum #IRLAuthorCharlesLeadbeater's #2009_WeThink #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical manifesto for the (then) seemingly unavoidable #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryCulture / #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo over-optimistically and #TheoryInstrumentalism.ally imagined only the potential advantages of such a sea-change: breaking down legacy, siloed ways of thinking/working would automatically lead to mass creativity. What was missing however, was the realisation that such conceptualisation assumes a common cultural understanding and objectives i.e. the #PoliticsStatusQuo - essentially, the further spread and reach of #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated values / a #TheoryHyperculture perspective - not the flourishing of divergent perspectives and with it, the surge in #ConspiracyTheory_.ies, the emergence of #EpistemologyAmateurParticipatoryDisinformation, #EpistemologyAmateurExegeteAutodidactDilettantism and charges of #MetaphorWarfareCulture and #CatchcryCancelCulture, supposedly mobilised as a singularly, unified attack against #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues - representing a manifestly binary duality of #MetaphorVersusEverydayPeopleLiberals. #TheoryModernityReflexive
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