The Weaponization of Social Media : Corbett report 1 March 2018

[Cidersomerset]

Edit...MODS if you look in can you change the date in the tittle to 1/3/18 cheers...


James is very good at concise reports on large subjects so as to make them easier to
understand and you can use them as a starting platform to research into whatever the
topic is. I know most on here know this but new people looking in may not. I just
posted this on several threads as I'm cutting down on new threads as I mentioned
before to concentrate on existing ones and let others have a go, though I will still post
threads when the right subject pops up and this should be seen by as many as possible
imo. Others go into more detail but this is essential basic info imo of what is going on....
This was originally a mil/intel project.


The Weaponization of Social Media
corbettreport

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0dL8vt1n-f8

Published on 1 Mar 2018

TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=25740
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies
of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition.
Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to
their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The Weaponization
of Social Media. This is The Corbett Report.

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Scary New Facial Reenactment Technology Poses New Threat
INFOWARS ...The War Room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TsznM8hxE
Published on 2 Mar 2018

[Cidersomerset]

Bump ~ Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_PLNeMuqu4

Published on 27 Feb 2018


SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=26040

We all know that the "Deep Fakes" application that's going viral on the
internet is only a crude toy compared to the technologies the government
-sponsored, defence department-linked researchers have been playing with.
Here's an example from the year 2000 that shows that real-time video fakery
technology has been available to the deep state for decades.

[O Donna]

There are people that are dedicated to finding ways through the defense of the discerning mind.

It's a mine/ mind field out there!

[Cidersomerset]

YouTube is Now ThemTube: Time to Flee the Failed Platform

corbettreport

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_WV8yOzhRfI

Published on 26 Feb 2018
SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=26227
Hey, did I mention that YouTube is involved in all-out warfare against
independent news sources? Oh, I have? Multiple times? Well, here
it is again. If you only get my info from ThemTube, please do check out the ThemTube alternatives out there.

[bluestflame]

where there's a will there's a way , seems they find a way to weaponise anything if they can't use it themselves they try to destroy it

[Cidersomerset]

Ritchie talks about his experience and how they could not get through to a
human to challenge his banning. As far as he can tell it was algorithms that
is doing the censorship....

Richie Allen Speaks Out on Censorship - We are Insignificant

Sarah Westall

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CeFCuxZteL8

Published on 1 Mar 2018
FREE INFORMATION: Learn the 3 Habits that are destroying your memory
& how to fix the damage: https://www.simplesmartscience.com/lp...

Popular radio show host, Richie Allen, joins the program to discuss the latest
round of YouTube censorship. His channel, along with many other large and
small creators were yanked from the platform. His professional journalist and
balanced approach was not factored into the decision. Regardless of the
objective reporting and professional coverage, his content was yanked with no
recourse or explanation sending a shock wave through the alternative media.
YouTube has recently claimed that "Right Wing" and "Gun Supporters" were
accidentally pulled, yet Allen is neither "right wing" nor a vocal supporter of
guns. Again, pointing to the hypocrisy at YouTube and Google.

We discuss the blanket abuse of power and treatment towards creators as
insignificant. He also gives advice as to what content creators and journalists
could do to protect themselves long term and to stay viable in the long run.
This is an important discussion at a difficult time in history.

[Cidersomerset]

Dr. Corsi first post since being reinstated and he relates what happened with U'tube
and more he also says the President is aware of the situation and is looking into it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QV1Hl3ufcA

Streamed live 1 hour ago...3/3/18

Dr. Jerome Corsi is a Washington Correspondent for InforWars.com where he
works as an investigative reporter

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
The Weaponization of Social Media
The Corbett Report

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0dL8vt1n-f8

1 Mar 2018

TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=25740

EVERYONE should watch or listen to this. EVERYONE.

MP3: http://corbettreport.com/mp3/episode...cial_media.mp3

Transcript:

It didn’t take long from the birth of the world wide web for the public to start using this new medium to transmit, collect and analyze information in ways never before imagined.

The first message boards and clunky “web 1.0” websites soon gave way to “the blogosphere.” The arrival of social media was the next step in this evolution, allowing for the formation of communities of interest to share information in real time about events happening anywhere on the globe.

But as quickly as communities began to form around these new platforms, governments and militaries were even quicker in recognizing the potential to use this new medium to more effectively spread their own propaganda.

Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favourable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives.

Their method? The Weaponization of Social Media.

This is The Corbett Report.

Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Snapchat. Instagram. Reddit. “Social media” as we know it today barely existed fifteen years ago. Although it provides new ways to interact with people and information from all across the planet virtually instantaneously and virtually for free, we are only now beginning to understand the depths of the problems associated with these new platforms.

More and more of the original developers of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter admit they no longer use social media themselves and actively keep it away from their children, and now they are finally admitting the reason why: social media was designed specifically to take advantage of your psychological weaknesses and keep you addicted to your screen.

SEAN PARKER: If the thought process that went into building these applications–Facebook being the first of them to really understand it–that thought process was all about “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?”

And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever, and that’s gonna get you to contribute more content and that’s gonna get you more likes and comments.

So it’s a social validation feedback loop. I mean it’s exactly the kind of thing that a that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in in human psychology.

And I just think that we — the inventors/creators, you know, and it’s me, it’s Mark, it’s Kevin Systrom at Instagram, it’s all of these people — understood this consciously and we did it anyway.

• SOURCE: Sean Parker – Facebook Exploits Human Vulnerability

It should be no surprise, then, that in this world of social media addicts and smartphone zombies, the 24/7 newsfeed is taking up a greater and greater share of people’s lives. Our thoughts, our opinions, our knowledge of the world, even our mood are increasingly being influenced or even determined by what we see being posted, tweeted or vlogged.

And the process by which these media shape our opinions is being carefully monitored and analyzed, not by the social media companies themselves, but by the US military.

MARINA PORTNAYA: When the world’s largest social media platform betrays its users, there’s going to be outrage.
ABC HOST: The study to see whether Facebook could influence the emotional state of its users on that news feed.
CNN ANCHOR: It allowed researchers to manipulate almost 700 thousand users news feeds. Some saw more positive news about their friends, others saw more negative.
CNN GUEST: Well I’m not surprised. I mean we’re all kind of lab rat than the big Facebook experiment.
PORTNAYA: But it wasn’t only Facebook’s experiment. IT turns out the psychological study was connected to the US government’s research on social unrest.
MORNING JOE GUEST: This is really kind of creepy.
PORTNAYA: And it gets worse. What you may not know is that the US Department of Defense has reportedly spent roughly $20 million conducting studies aimed at learning how to manipulate online behavior in order to influence opinion. The initiative was launched in 2011 by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, otherwise known as DARPA. The program is best described as the US media’s effort to become better at detecting and conducting propaganda campaigns via social media. Translation: When anti-government messages gain ground virally, Washington wants to find a way to spread counter opinion.

• SOURCE: US military harnesses social media to manipulate online behaviour

The DARPA document that details the Pentagon’s plans for influencing opinions in the social media space is called “Social Media in Strategic Communication.” DARPA’s goal, according to their own website is “to develop tools to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information.”

Exactly what tools were developed for this purpose and how they are currently being deployed is unclear, but Rand Walzman, the program’s creator, admitted last year that the project lasted four years, cost $50 million and led to the publication of over 200 papers.

The papers, including “Incorporating Human Cognitive Biases in a Probabilistic Model of Retweeting,” “Structural Properties of Ego Networks,” and “Sentiment Prediction using Collaborative Filtering” make the thrust of the program perfectly clear. Social media users are lab rats being carefully scrutinized by government-supported researchers, their tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram pictures being analyzed to determine how information spreads online, and, by implication, how the government and the military can use these social media networks to make their own propaganda “go viral.”

As worrying as this research is, it pales in comparison to the knowledge that governments, militaries and political lobby groups are already employing squadrons of foot soldiers to wage information warfare in the social media battlespace.

AL-JAZEERA ANCHOR: The Pentagon’s got a new plan to counter anti-american messages in cyberspace. It involves buying software that will enable the American military to create and control fake online personas–fake people, essentially–who will appear to have originated from all over the world.

The plan is being undertaken by CENTCOM (US Central Command), and the objective of the online persona management service is to combat enemy propaganda by influencing foreign social media websites. CENTCOM has hired a software development company called “Ntrepid,” and, according to the contract, the California-based company will initially provide 50 user licenses, each of which would be capable of controlling up to 10 fake personas.

US law forbids the use of this type of technology, called “sockpuppets,” against Americans, so all the personas will reportedly be communicating in languages like Arabic Persian and Urdu.

• SOURCE: Persona Online Management, Fake Online Personas, Sock Puppets, Astroturfing Bots, Shills

CTV ANCHOR: So is it okay to have the government monitor social media conversations and then to wade in and correct some of those conversations? With more on this, let’s go to technology expert Carmi Levy. He’s on the line from Montreal. Carmi, do you think the government’s monitoring what you and I are saying right now? Is this whole thing getting out of line, or what?
[…]
CARMI LEVY: It opens up a bit of a question. I’d like to call it a Pandora’s box about, you know, what exactly is the government’s aim here, and what do they hope to accomplish with what they find out? And as they accumulate this information online–this data on us–where does that data go?

And so I think as much applaud the government for getting into this area, the optics of it are potentially very big brother-ish. And the government really does need to be a little bit more concrete on what its intentions are and how it intends to achieve them.

• SOURCE: CTV Confirms Government(s) employing Internet Trolls, Shills & PR Agents to ‘correct misinformation’

4WWL REPORTER: New evidence that government owned computers at the Army Corps of Engineers office here in New Orleans are being used to verbally attack critics of the Corps comes in an affidavit from the former editor-in-chief of nola.com. Jon Donley, who was laid off this past February, tells us via satellite from Texas in late 2006 he started noticing people presenting themselves as ordinary citizens defending the Corps very energetically.
JON DONLEY: What stuck out, though, was the wording of the comments was in many ways mirroring news releases from the Corps of Engineers.
[…]
4WWL REPORTER: These commenters tried to discredit these people and when Rosenthal investigated, she discovered the comments were coming from users at the internet provider address of the Army Corps of Engineers offices here in New Orleans. She blamed the Corps for a strategy of going after critics.
SANDY ROSENTHAL: In the process of trying to obscure the facts of the New Orleans floodings, one of their tactics was just verbal abuse.

• SOURCE: Government Sock Puppets

NAFTALI BENNETT: Mo’etzet Yesha in conjunction with My Israel has arranged an instruction day for wiki editors. The goal of the day is to teach people how to edit in Wikipedia, which is the number one source of information today in the world.

As a way of example, if someone searches the Gaza flotilla, we want to be there. We want to be the guys who influence what is written there, how it’s written, and to ensure that it’s balanced and Zionist in the nature.

• SOURCE: Course: Zionist Editing on Wikipedia

These operations are only the visible and publicly-admitted front of a vast array of military and intelligence programs that are attempting to influence online behaviour, spread government propaganda, and disrupt online communities that arise in opposition to their agenda.

That such programs exist is not a matter of conjecture; it is mundane, established, documented fact.

In 2014, an internal document was leaked from GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA. The document, never intended for public release, was entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations” and bluntly stated that “We want to build Cyber Magicians.”

It then goes on to outline the magic “techniques” that must be employed in influence and information operations online, including deception and manipulation techniques like “anchoring,” “priming” and branding propaganda narratives. After presenting a map of social networking technologies that are targeted by these operations, the document then instructs the magicians how to deceive the public through “attention management” and behavioural manipulation.

That governments would turn to these strategies is hardly a shocking development. In fact, the use of government shills to propagate government talking points and disrupt online dissent has been openly advocated on the record by high-ranking government officials for the past decade.

In 2008, Cass Sunstein, a law professor who would go on to become Obama’s Information “Czar,” co-authored a paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories” in which he wrote that the “best response” to online “conspiracy theories” is what he calls “cognitive infiltration” of groups spreading these ideas.

“Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

In one variant, government agents would openly proclaim, or at least make no effort to conceal, their institutional affiliations. […] In another variant, government officials would participate anonymously or even with false identities.”

It is perhaps particularly ironic that the idea that government agents are actually and admittedly spreading propaganda online under false identities is, to the less-informed members of the population, itself a “conspiracy theory” rather than an established conspiracy fact.

Unsurprisingly, when confronted about his proposal, Sunstein pretended to not remember having written it and then pointedly refused to answer any questions about it.

LUKE RUDKOWSKI: My name is Bill de Burgh from Brooklyn College, and I know you’ve written many articles. But I think the most telling one about you is the 2008 one called “Conspiracy Theories,” where you openly advocated government agents infiltrate activist groups of 9/11 Truth and also stifle dissent online. I was wondering why do you think it’s the government’s job, or why do you think the government should go after family members who have questions and 9/11 responders who are lied to about the air, survivors whose testimony conflicts, and also government whistleblowers that were gagged because they released information that contradicts the official story.
CASS SUNSTEIN: I think it was Ricky who said I’d written hundreds of articles and I remember some and not others. That one I don’t remember very well. I hope I didn’t say that. But whatever was said in that article, my role in government is to oversee federal rule making in a way that is wholly disconnected from the vast majority of my academic writing, including that.
[…]
RUDKOWSKI: I just want to know is it safe to say that you retract saying that conspiracy theories should be banned or taxed for having an opinion online. Is it safe to say that?
SUNSTEIN: I don’t remember the article very well. So I hope I didn’t say either those things.
RUDKOWSKI: But you did and it’s written. Do you retract them?
SUNSTEIN: I’m focused on my job.

• SOURCE: Obama Information Czar Cass Sunstein Confronted on Cognitive Infiltration of Conspiracy Groups

Now, a decade on from Sunstein’s proposal, we know that military psyops agents, political lobbyists, corporate shills and government propagandists are spending vast sums of money and employing entire armies of keyboard warriors, leaving comments and shaping conversations to change the public’s opinions, influence their behaviour, and even alter their mood.

And they are helped along in this quest by the very same technology that allows the public to connect on a scale never before possible.

Technology is always a double-edged sword, and sometimes it can be dangerous to wield that sword at all. There are ways to identify and neutralize the threat of online trolls and shills, but the phenomenon is not likely to go away any time soon.

Each of us must find our own answer to the question of how best to incorporate these technologies into our life, but the next time you find yourself caught up in an argument with an online persona that may or may not be a genuine human being, it might be better to ask yourself if your efforts are better spent engaging in the argument or just turning off the computer.

[Michelle Marie]

Everyone who keeps getting on my case for not using social media might benefit from watching this.

I may just pass it along!

The conditioning seems obvious to me when I observe disparate people express the same sentiments. The unique lines of individuality are blurred; bleeding together.

MM

[O Donna]

I remember the earlier days of the internet, oh how I miss those days! Maybe my memory has faded but it seemed so full of promises of a new world of sharing and communicating discoveries.

At one time I thought there would be no end to the sites to be discovered but that is no longer true, for me at least. If the couple hand fulls of privately held web sites I find enriching were to disappear I am pretty certain there would be no reason to have the internet. I rarely shop online, not on any of the corporate social media outlets, and not a gamer.

On a positive note, I am grateful for sites like PA that truly care to get the word out about what is really taking place beyond the main stream use of the internet.

I still hold out hope for a better tomorrow.

[happyuk]

"In 2014, an internal document was leaked from GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA. The document, never intended for public release, was entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations” and bluntly stated that “We want to build Cyber Magicians.”"

I'm just scanning that interesting GCHQ PDF right now.

My first impression is that Bob Cialidini's seminal work "Influence (The psychology of persuasion)" has been well-read.

It contains many references to phrases and techniques that appear to be lifted almost verbatim from the book, that Cialdini states are used ubiquitously by crooks, con artists, gold-diggers, salesmen of all description, fund-raisers, sycophants and so on. I spotted three almost instantly - "reciprocity", "flattery" and "social compliance".

Well worth a read for those wishing to avoid becoming a patsy for what Cialidini terms the "compliance practitioners" of this world.

[Mike Gorman]

Unfortunately the vast potential of the two-way communications dynamics of the internet can be used against us, especially when these corporate ghettos have emerged which take advantage of the herd instinct. I think internet social media can be a force for challenging propaganda and enabling people to exchange big ideas, social policy critiques and political ideologies-communication has always been a two-edged sword. The mass media empires were never going to simply fade away, and because this last 20 years has been a transitional time, where people are still conditioned to be passive receptors of information, as in the broadcast era (1900-1996) there is the capacity to influence significant numbers of people using the 'T.V approach'.

The key to challenging mainstream, deep state and power elite narratives is for the "digital divide" to be steadily bridged, and for people to fully understand the potential of the internet to be the people's creative media, we can still build our own platforms, we can still market blogs and alternative media.

We are not yet locked into a prison in the same way the broadcast paradigm had us all. I am optimistic that the internet is still the gates of freedom being prized open, we just need to fully awaken and understand this. Military and government agencies might be using social media in this way-but they don't have it all their own way by a long shot!

[Michelle Marie]

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
Unfortunately the vast potential of the two-way communications dynamics of the internet can be used against us, especially when these corporate ghettos have emerged which take advantage of the herd instinct. I think internet social media can be a force for challenging propaganda and enabling people to exchange big ideas, social policy critiques and political ideologies-communication has always been a two-edged sword. The mass media empires were never going to simply fade away, and because this last 20 years has been a transitional time, where people are still conditioned to be passive receptors of information, as in the broadcast era (1900-1996) there is the capacity to influence significant numbers of people using the 'T.V approach'.

The key to challenging mainstream, deep state and power elite narratives is for the "digital divide" to be steadily bridged, and for people to fully understand the potential of the internet to be the people's creative media, we can still build our own platforms, we can still market blogs and alternative media.

We are not yet locked into a prison in the same way the broadcast paradigm had us all. I am optimistic that the internet is still the gates of freedom being prized open, we just need to fully awaken and understand this. Military and government agencies might be using social media in this way-but they don't have it all their own way by a long shot!

I like your optimism:

"To,fully understand the potential of the Internet...

We can still build our own platforms...etc."

Migration to more independent platforms has commenced. Dr. Jerome Corsi, for example, is diversifying: his Q posts and live streams will be on Gab now. I've been watching more Bitchute and Dtube videos, too.

Wisely, these Internet independent journalists are diversifying. There are too many demanding Freedom (and Internet Bill of Rights) to throw in the towel. Every challenge may be used as a catalyst for positive change and innovative solutions.

Oh, and let me mention the plans that Mike Adams, the Health Ranger from Natural News, has announced regarding preparing to offer alternatives.

Discernment is in order. We have the choice to not participate in the social media mental-emotional consciousness traps. ***Conscious direction of attention is the order of the day.***

I'll remain optimistic, too!

MM

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Cidersomerset (here)
Dr. Corsi first post since being reinstated and he relates what happened with U'tube
and more he also says the President is aware of the situation and is looking into it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LPOmCbtIoPw

Streamed live 1 hour ago...3/3/18

Dr. Jerome Corsi is a Washington Correspondent for InforWars.com where he
works as an investigative reporter.

Here’s the “Jerome Corsi Live Stream 03/03/18” @ OpenMind.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RtWrUCcByUM

[Cidersomerset]

IS THIS THE LAST VIDEO OF ALEX JONES ON YOUTUBE?

The Alex Jones Channel

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=288uXvkNLMo

Published on 4 Mar 2018
Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones announced Saturday evening that YouTube
had frozen his video channel and would delete it on Sunday, after CNN pursued
the social media giant and its advertisers.

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JASON FYK: Facebook Publishers Explain How Media Giant Censors
- ALEX JONES INFOWARS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ebpAFK2mc
Published on 4 Mar 2018

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CNN Now Attacking Infowars Sponsors In Free Speech Crackdown
The Alex Jones Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVvBOhTsM8
Published on 4 Mar 2018
Filmed yesterday, we were unable to upload due to the 2nd strike which youtube
has since removed.Here Alex Jones discusses the fake news put out by CNN of
our "Sponsors" fleeing our youtube channel.

[Helene West]

I listened to the latest Corsi vid yesterday and was disappointed but not surprised. He sounded grateful to big brother, youtube, for reinstating him. Almost obsequious. And as I predicted came out and said he'd be more cautious on youtube and do the q code thing on Gab.

this is what they are doing. Very shrewd. Make it look like a complete rampage of alt hosts and get folks upset, then reinstate some to prove youtube is not all bad. The ones that come back will be grateful and more watered down. The result is that we are more controlled just by communication and info being omitted from us. We are being groomed and tamed.

Will alt hosts come to aid alex in some way? He has his own website obviously but you can see it requires $$ as it employs people and has inventory of products. Will alt hosts who are 'allowed' on youtube plug his show to give him a boost? I doubt it, they will be afraid of 'strikes'. If they take Alex down and if the Alt 'community' is a real community we should all leave youtube, but knowing humans to be humans that probably will not happen. Humans by and large - take whatever's on the menu...
I'm open to pleasant surprises but not holding my breath...

[Cidersomerset]

I listened to the latest Corsi vid yesterday and was disappointed but not surprised. He sounded grateful
to big brother, youtube, for reinstating him. Almost obsequious. And as I predicted came out and said he'd be
more cautious on youtube and do the q code thing on Gab.

He explains it all again in the first Q'anon segment he basically says he is ready for
a court battle , but wanted to be courteous to U'tube for reinstating his channel.
Though he does not trust them and so as not to give them ammo if it does go
further, he is not being rude to them in anyway, its a tactic , he explains it better below.....

NEW Q, JEROME CORSI #QAnon ANALYSIS (3-4-18) (P1) QAnon NEWS! - ALEX JONES INFOWARS

INFO WARS NEWS

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1olmaYCiUS4

Published on 4 Mar 2018


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MIKE ADAMS NATURAL NEWS U'Tube has gone...

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHeal...able_polymer=1

This is what happened to Dr.Corsi's site
look at the links Ed Sheeren, The late ,late show WWE etc...

Is this some sort of redirection site or something ?

[Mike Gorman]

This is encouraging. The difference is we all now have the right, and the ability to present our own media-citizen journalism is defeating the hegemony of mass media propaganda I see it all the time. The big obstacle is always people taking the internet for granted and being blase about the communications miracle it truly represents. Good call!

[Helene West]

yes, bring on the Internet Bill of Rights!

[Cidersomerset]

Alex gives update and some say there are rogue activists in U'tube others sources
say its part of a 'cry Wolfe ' policy , another is flagging vids falsely and more...

3 STRIKES AGAIN! - ALEX JONES INFOWARS

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eyX3mLhR9uc

Published on 4 Mar 2018