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https://jordansather.substack.com/p/social-media-influencer-armies-driven
Social Media Influencer Armies Driven by DARPA Tech and the “Disinformation Governance Board” Gets Rebooted
On the Government and Intel Community using A.I. resources to track truthers, establish “micro-influencer” armies, and advance Deep State propaganda
It’s been in the news lately that a talent agency managing TikTok stars was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Democrat National Committee to promote political messaging through their signed influencers. While this may be surprising news to some, this issue of taking to social media to drive propaganda through influencers stems back years and involves assistance from some of the most powerful government and intelligence agencies in the land.
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While it may appear these popular social media influencers are driving organic content, closer inspection suggests they may very well be getting paid or compensated to drive political messaging about various topics, such as supporting Biden for president, promoting gun control, pushing climate change narratives, and other propagandist rhetoric.
In fact, we can trace the leveraging of internet influencers for political propaganda purposes back a few years earlier, with government created technologies and retired military officials involved.
”Defeat Disinfo” and “People First”
On May 1st 2020, it was reported by the Washington Post that a new political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was formed to “deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal — to combat online efforts to promote President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.”
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The founder of Defeat Disinfo, Curtis Hougland, also a former contractor for DARPA, is now running a project called “People First”, which much like Palette Media Management, conducts marketing via “precision microinfluencers”. From their website, People First aims to “identify, recruit, and manage personal and visual content from any community by combining a state-of-the-art tech platform with a team of human organizers”.
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A recent article from “Campaigns & Elections” detailing the April 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court elections actually highlights how effective People First was in swaying the vote.
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Just The News reports on May 8th, 2023:
Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of foreign disinformation is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”
Housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the new Foreign Malign Influence Center was launched with little public notice but is already provoking fears that it will use overstated foreign threats as a pretext to interfere in domestic political debate or will duplicate other federal efforts, especially a controversial State Department unit that tries to squelch populism abroad.
The acting Director of the Foreign Malign Influence Center is Jeffrey K. Wichman who spent over 30 years at the CIA holding such positions as Senior Cyber Analyst for the Directorate of Digital Innovation and The Director of Analysis for the Center for Counterterrorism.
Conclusion
The main battle front in the fight for We the People’s truth and freedom is on social media. Many are shifting away from the mainstream media, especially the younger generation, and they’re now getting their news and opinions influenced by computers and personalities on social platforms. The Deep State is concerned about the social media front so much that they’re investing millions, if not billions of dollars into a web of non-profits, NGOs, political action committees, and private companies that track information pathways, conduct “fact check” reporting, and create armies of social media influencers to push their propaganda. We are doing a fantastic job in this fight, showing by how much effort [they] are putting into this information war, but we must not stop now. We must continue the fight, and focus on destroying their narratives on these social media apps. Our fight is not only against mainstream narratives, but also the ridiculous conspiracy clickbait that is planted into the truth community to undermine it.
Let’s finish the job.
[More at link]
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Think about it - the government is investing OUR MONEY to keep us from knowing the truth!
Very informative. ThanQ.