That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It - Rolling Stone - The Diigo Meta page

• 30 Jan 20
  

  Gabriela Sellart

  manipulación trolls socialmedia

  • They know what pressure points to push and how best to drive us to distrust our neighbors.
  • Disinformation operations aren’t typically fake news or outright lies. Disinformation is most often simply spin.
  • driving a wedge
  • She wasn’t selling her audience a candidate or a position — she was selling an emotion. Melanie was selling disgust.
  • The Russians know that, in political warfare, disgust is a more powerful tool than anger. Anger drives people to the polls; disgust drives countries apart.
  • Professional disinformation isn’t spread by the account you disagree with — quite the opposite.
  • Here is what makes disinformation so difficult to discuss: while these tweets point to valid issues of concern — issues that have been central to important social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo — they are framed to serve Russia’s interests in undermining Americans’ trust in our institutions.
  • Russia’s goals are to further widen existing divisions in the American public and decrease our faith and trust in institutions that help maintain a strong democracy.

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• 21 Jan 20
  

  Todd Suomela

  twitter disinformation social-media

  • Russian disinformation is not just about President Trump or the 2016 presidential election. Did they work to get Trump elected? Yes, diligently. Our research has shown how Russia strategically employed social media to build support on the right for Trump and lower voter turnout on the left for Clinton. But the IRA was not created to collude with the Trump campaign. They existed well before Trump rode down that escalator and announced his candidacy, and we assume they will exist in some form well after he is gone. Russia’s goals are to further widen existing divisions in the American public and decrease our faith and trust in institutions that help maintain a strong democracy. If we focus only on the past or future, we will not be prepared for the present. It’s not about election 2016 or 2020.
• 17 Jan 20
  

  allisons21

  twitter resource_evaluation social_media

• 12 Jan 20
  

  Sarah E

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• 23 Dec 19
  

  Francois Guite

  Here's what Russia's 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda.

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• 09 Dec 19
  

  K. Luella

  Professional disinformation isn’t spread by the account you disagree with — quite the opposite. Effective disinformation is embedded in an account you agree with. The professionals don’t push you away, they pull you toward them.

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• 08 Dec 19
  

  Mike McBride

  This is an interest examination of how Russia is using social media as a PR tool:
  
  In the case of @IamTyraJackson, the IRA’s goal was two-fold: Grow an audience in part through heartwarming, inspiring messages, and use that following to spread messages promoting division, distrust, and doubt.
  
  I don't know how you really battle that, other than to be aware that anyone you don't know on social media, may not be what they seem, and to be wary of assuming someone who is tweeting uplifting messages is always looking to be uplifting, they may be just trying to sweet-talk their way into your feed so they can then seed it with messages meant to get you to distrust, or "other" people who don't agree with you.
  
  Of course, we could also argue that this article was written to make us distrust Twitter users, right? ;-)

  MM

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• 05 Dec 19
  

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• 04 Dec 19
  

  Peggy George

  Looking forward to discussing this article & many more tonight on @edtechSR with @techsavvyteach: That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It https://t.co/5l6L3074j0
  
  #MediaLit #InfoWar #politics

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• 02 Dec 19
  

  Dannon Loveland

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• 01 Dec 19
  

  Kevin Hodgson

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• 30 Nov 19
  

  Patrick Larkin

  I’ve noticed that we’ve moved on from hating Biden to hating Buttigieg.
  
  Neither are my preferred candidate. But I would recommend pausing a moment before jumping on the candidate shame zeitgeist, you don’t know whose interests you might be serving.
  
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• 29 Nov 19
  

  MN Books

  russia putinism trolls facebook twitter social media

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  Nathan Rein

  information_warfare information_literacy way internet political_culture presidential_campaign_2016

• 28 Nov 19
  

  Daniel Dittmar

  politics social-media

• 27 Nov 19
  

  Shawn McCusker

  This is worth your time, I promise. Read and digest it before it is too late.
  
  https://t.co/YWdqmxL2x7

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  Dan Connolly

  https://t.co/50SOInpfFr

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  David Mascord

  Anyone who uses social media for any purpose should read this article.
  
  https://t.co/oYh9TlaU9N

• 26 Nov 19
  

  Donna Baumbach

  tweet added to diigo

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  Jenny Takeda

  misinformation

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  Tori Klassen

  "Effective disinformation is embedded in an account you agree with." Read this Rolling Stone article. Please. https://t.co/SdvU275gxI

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  Muzaffaruddin Alvi

  via All News on 'The Twitter Times: Muzaffar69/corpgov' http://bit.ly/2Mw5vpR

  #CorpGov All News on 'The Twitter Times: Muzaffar69_corpgov'

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  Ken Harper

  psychology social media storytelling

  • Rather, the tweet about Warrick Dunn was really a Trojan horse to gain followers in a larger plan by a foreign adversary.
• 25 Nov 19
  

  Jennifer Culp

  Sharp piece on how audience building techniques are at the core of the Kremlin's evolving information operations. https://t.co/SAdaWVqKim

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