Propaganda Wars
Mar. 19th, 2013 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThis is a piece written by someone who was paid, along with other people, by a company to be, essentially, an online propagandist and information fighter.
This is frustrating. I was aware of this already, but it is frustrating. It's kind of an extenstion of my problem with memes. People are being paid to, in a way, be living memes. Or perhaps that's not quite the right term. But it makes you realize that talking to these folks is basically like having a conversation with a bot. It's all performative for them, acting for a paycheck, and it destroys public discourse.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/12/diary-of-an-israeli-shill/
This is frustrating. I was aware of this already, but it is frustrating. It's kind of an extenstion of my problem with memes. People are being paid to, in a way, be living memes. Or perhaps that's not quite the right term. But it makes you realize that talking to these folks is basically like having a conversation with a bot. It's all performative for them, acting for a paycheck, and it destroys public discourse.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/12/diary-of-an-israeli-shill/
