Incorrectly Sizes the Q Movement
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18 Feb 2019 - 8:13:31 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/online-conspiracy-theorists-democracy;
What does FEAR look like?
30m use ‘Qanon’ across ‘censored’ platforms?
Incorrect, much more.
The Great Awakening.
WWG1WGA!!!
Q
PART ONE
Oookay - so I go to the Guardian (vomit) link. I will post a few paragraphs from this “research” article:
Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy
Cannibals, aliens and clandestine lizard overlords: thanks to algorithms, such ideas threaten the future of Europe
Organised conspiracy theorist networks have launched an all-out information war across Europe. At the heart of this is the QAnon movement. It expanded from the US to Europe and the UK at rapid speed, hijacking political debates on social media as well as mass protests in the streets in recent months. Our new analysis at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows that European conspiracy theorists run increasingly sophisticated campaigns around critical junctions in national, regional and global politics. They even carried out social media operations to influence voters in German state elections, including the 2018 election in Bavaria.
The QAnon community, which began on the message-board site 4chan, strongly overlaps with the support networks of far-right movements such as the EDL and Pegida. Most recently, it co-opted yellow vest demonstrations and boosted hardline Brexit campaigns and Tommy Robinson protests. By injecting conspiratorial narratives into these movements, its members can leverage existing networks and alter their political direction. A commonly used tactic is to combine conspiricist hashtags with those of viral campaigns and trending topics.
Ahead of the European parliamentary elections this May, the virality of conspiracy theories about the EU and the political establishment provides a fertile playground for populist parties. Groups such as Q Europe, Q Britannia and Q Deutschland are already gearing up to influence voting behaviour in a crucial election that will determine the future of the European project.
Emotionally manipulative and tightly organised campaigns have allowed them to gather tens of thousands of supporters across Europe. They produce videos, disinformation databases and run trainings on meme creation and psychological warfare. QAnon even has its own currency called “Initiative Q”, which its founders want to turn into “the next bitcoin”.
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Across Europe, conspiracy theories that mix old antisemitic tropes with new ones that demonise migrants and Muslims have gained huge traction since the refugee crisis in 2015. A recent study showed that a stunning 60% of Brits believe in at least one conspiracy theory. The ideas that a cabal of global elites run the world, that there is a plot to replace white English natives with Muslim migrants and that the authorities are covering up immigration numbers are among the most commonly held.
Its adherents link the MI6, Facebook and the Rothschilds to the Vatican, Hollywood, the Nazis, the Illuminati and aliens in order to explain that climate change is a hoax, the Holocaust never happened, the world is run by paedophiles, Satanists and cannibals and that the Queen is a direct descendent of prophet Mohammed. And yet this virtual cosmos of absurd stories can inspire real-world incidents: just last month, a QAnon supporter killed his brother, whom he thought was a lizard.
Governments and big tech firms are slowly starting to push back against the systematic diffusion of disinformation. Last month, YouTube announced that it would change its algorithms to stop recommending so many conspiracy theory videos. Meanwhile, the NGO OpenAI decided that it would not release its “deepfakes for text” tool because its researchers feared misuse.
But solutions to these problems need to be identified. Policies should require greater algorithmic transparency and accountability from tech firms in order to protect future elections. Instead of focusing exclusively on the removal of extreme content and accounts, it will be necessary to regulate against harmful infrastructures and malicious behaviours.
Julia Ebner, an Austrian journalist, is a researcher at the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Thanks for digging that! Top Kek!
PART TWO
Next step, what is this “Institute for Strategic Dialogue”? And who are its founders?
First link is boring word salad usual pukedom.
http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/css-partners/partner.html/122218
Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)
Main content
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent think tank working with leaders in government, business, media and academia to develop multi-country responses to the major security and socioeconomic challenges of our time and to enhance Europe’s capacity to act effectively in the global arena.Activities include research, specialized task forces, high level policy briefings, scholarships and cross border networks that foster leadership and stability across Europe and its wider neighborhood, actively bridging inter-communal, religious, socioeconomic and political divides.
The main website. A lot is hard to copy/paste, it jumps around a lot. I hope a few brains check this out, copying a few of their headings. Reminds me of “Whatever is not prohibited is mandatory”:
WOW! I cannot copy anything from the above site as it turns into Wall Of Text without any reason why....I hope some tech-smart people check it out. It is diablolical in the extreme.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is a London-based ‘think and do tank’ that has pioneered policy and operational responses to the rising challenges of violent extremism and inter-communal conflict. Combining research and analysis with government advisory work and delivery programmes, ISD has been at the forefront of forging real-world, evidence-based responses to the challenges of integration, extremism and terrorism. ISD’s founder and president was George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld.[1] Its Director/CEO is Sasha Havlicek.[2]
When I have a few more minutes, I will look up those founders above.
Now, the author of the Guardian spew of lying bile and she is 27 years old.
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd_team/julia-ebner/
Julia Ebner
Julia Ebner is a Resident Research Fellow at ISD, specialising in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation and European terrorism prevention initiatives.
She is the author of The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism as well as several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and policy briefings. On the basis of her research, Julia advises parliamentary working groups, frontline workers and tech firms, speaks at international conferences and delivers workshops in schools and universities. She regularly writes for the Guardian and the Independent and gives interviews in English, German and French on the BBC, CNN, ZDF, ARD, France24, Al Jazeera, LBC and others.
Before joining ISD, Julia worked as a Senior Researcher at the counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, where she led research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation and gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on far-right extremism. Among other publications, she co-authored the report ‘The EU and Terrorism: Is Britain Safer In or Out?’ as well as a chapter in the Routledge volume Education and Extremisms. In her role as the coordinator of the pan-European network Families Against Terrorism and Extremism (FATE), she carried out radicalisation prevention projects across Europe and North Africa.
Julia holds an MSc (Dist) in International History from London School of Economics and an MSc (Dist) in International Relations from Peking University. She completed her undergraduate studies with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and a BSc in International Business.
https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/speaker/julia-ebner/
Julia Ebner is a terrorism and extremism researcher, and author of The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism. She is research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and global fellow at the Project for the Study of the 21st Century. She spent two years working for the world’s first counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, where she led research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation, and gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on far-right extremism.
NOT "The Ministry of Silly Walks"
but
"The Ministry of Silly Talks"