Post AYDdBOAl8BxPCxMQxE by JMaverickJacks1@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #AUf0Rnh33FrIRCXElE by Popehat@mastodon.social
2023-04-15T00:40:56Z
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If the grown-ups are having a conversation that mentions racism and you feel a need to step in with "can we stop pretending that words have power," just save that for later bro. You take that right back to the Discord. We don't deserve your deep thoughts around here.
(DIR) Post #AYDd9RHIc8ICGCURqi by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-15T01:25:51Z
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@Popehat The versions of this practice that I disdain are "What is 'racism' after all?" then they divert the thread into hair splitting over definitions.
(DIR) Post #AYDd9SN0YOS9eCAWO0 by JMaverickJacks1@mastodon.world
2023-04-15T17:28:42Z
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@Npars01 @Popehat I often sense that people who take straightforward conversations about social issues onto divisive tangents are just Trump supporters being a buzzkill.
(DIR) Post #AYDd9T4bwHKbpQZLLk by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T13:52:03Z
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@JMaverickJacks1 @Popehat It happens often enough to appear deliberate, even inauthentic at times. It's even been categorized into a classification system called "Types of Reply Guys" by @sbarolo https://mashable.com/article/twitter-reply-guysSome of the participants are part of web scraping firms that can collect the social media posts of individuals going back decades. The Reply Guy interactions have been successful in reducing the number of online women gamers & the public presence of journalists...1/3
(DIR) Post #AYDd9TsawRJWKRxGG8 by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T13:54:32Z
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2/3... & scientists. A phenomenon that gets women to reduce their public participation is incredibly useful as a business model, to whom?Jane Mayer & Jessica Valenti reduced their public presence when reporting on issues that upset GOP oil donors for example.The reports on Belandre aka "James Bell" show disturbing practices. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gq8a/james-bell-cyberstalking-harassment-catfishingDuring the period leading up to the world wars, hostile foreign governments established newspaper clipping services as part of...3/3
(DIR) Post #AYDd9UYQQum4QBWfSa by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T14:08:07Z
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3/3... their espionage and manipulation of public opinion. I wonder if such web scraping businesses serve a similar function?Creating a wealth of data with potential future usefulness.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_monitoring_servicehttps://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/what-its-like-to-read-the-nsas-newspaper-for-spies/
(DIR) Post #AYDd9V9IDqGUGWm6vQ by JMaverickJacks1@mastodon.world
2023-04-16T14:21:02Z
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@Npars01 Thanks for those insights and links! I’m currently working on a journalism project in which some of that info will be directly useful! (To @Alan: Please take note of links in thread above regarding reporters during world wars and other media monitoring.) The profiles of annoying ‘Reply Guys’ is also priceless info, and greatly appreciated.😃❤️
(DIR) Post #AYDd9X6svlWkLdfDRw by JMaverickJacks1@mastodon.world
2023-04-16T14:42:51Z
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@Npars01 @Alan Ms. Nicole, do you have any additional sources for your comment on media monitoring before/during the world wars?
(DIR) Post #AYDd9XjWc6R4HTk4g4 by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T14:46:35Z
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@JMaverickJacks1 @Alan I just googled "newspaper clipping".What triggered my curiosity was Rachel Maddow's Ultra podcast about German newspaper clipping services.It's also from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-mark-zuckerberg-should-read-a-tree-grows-in-brooklynThere are several companies that do this for brand recognition. There's nothing stopping the same technology from being used in malign influence campaigns or espionage.https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-monitoring-tools/
(DIR) Post #AYDd9YNwBqlIIoeLfU by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T16:17:51Z
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@JMaverickJacks1 @Alan Another element to media monitoring services.I've been wondering about the directed flows of money that brought us people like Brett Kavanagh, Clarence Thomas, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Amy Coney-Barrett, and Stephen Miller.What mechanisms accelerated their careers, over all others?These aren't particularly bright people or hard working. They lack charisma or presence. From relatively average families. So why?They all have one...1/2
(DIR) Post #AYDd9a224GQbPSPsno by Npars01@mstdn.social
2023-04-16T16:19:14Z
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2/2...thing in common. A public expression of bigotry in college. A media monitoring service could easily identify & documentarily "collect" such individuals & assist their careers.To get ahead in GOP-land, all you have to do is been a bigoted ideologue in college.Sounds so much like how the Cambridge Five spies were cultivated by Russia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five
(DIR) Post #AYDdBOAl8BxPCxMQxE by JMaverickJacks1@mastodon.world
2023-04-16T17:22:26Z
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@Npars01 @Alan Musk only comes from an “average” family that stole an emerald mine that rightfully belongs to the black people of South Africa: a mine that gave him millions of dollars to invest in electric-vehicle technology that other people created so that he could take credit for it as a “genius,” and could make money from government grants, but could block the tech from reaching a mass market and from hampering oil execs. That was a Republican “catch-and-kill” operation!