Posted on 05/02/2020 12:20:28 PM PDT by bitt
A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal - to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The group, Defeat Disinfo, will use artificial intelligence and network analysis to map discussion of the president's claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country - in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.
The initiative reflects fears within the Democratic Party that Trump's unwavering digital army may help sustain him through the pandemic, as it has through past controversies, even as the economy craters, tens of thousands have died, and Trump suffers in the polls.
"It's often said campaigns are a battle of ideas, but they're really a battle of narratives," said David Eichenbaum, a Democratic media consultant who is a senior adviser to the PAC. "Today those narratives spread quickly online."
The initiative is run by Curtis Hougland, whose received initial funding for the technology from DARPA, the Pentagon's research arm, as part of an effort to combat extremism overseas. He insists Democrats are ill-prepared for the looming battle over information and attention, which is bound to play an outsize role in November.
Hougland cites as an example Trump's suggestion last week that injecting bleach or other household disinfectants could be a treatment for the novel coronavirus - a moment that appeared unequivocally damaging to the president but was less clear-cut as it unfolded on social media. Although the episode was associated with a spike
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I think I remember is the one he said about some 0b0z0 instructions about Afghanistan that involved VP Biden: Bite me!!!
0b0z0 fired him shortly afterward. Now, he’s for Bite me Biden who doesn’t know where he is?!
Anyone remember that?
He is a LIAR first and foremost:
Hougland cites as an example Trump’s suggestion last week that injecting bleach or other household disinfectants could be a treatment for the novel coronavirus - a moment that appeared unequivocally damaging to the president but was less clear-cut as it unfolded on social media. Although the episode was associated with a spike in Twitter engagement about Trump, especially in swing states such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, according to Hougland’s analysis, four of the top six tweets about Trump and disinfectant came from accounts partial to the president, boosting the notion that he had not really suggested the bogus cure.
Among them was a tweet from Ryan Fournier, national co-chair of Students for Trump, who wrote, “No, President Trump did not tell people to inject themselves with Clorox or Lysol. If you believe that, you’re a moron.”
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Fournier said there’s a grass-roots digital army prepared to defend the president when his back is against the wall.
“I see the people on Twitter,” he said. “I see the Facebook groups. I see the posts across these networks. I see the websites people have created to support the president. It’s tremendous amounts of stuff that I’ve never seen in a presidential election before.”
Hougland agreed. Republicans, he said, “have greater volume frequency and quality of digital narrative.”
So Hoguland does not want people defending the President and dispelling the lies about what he did or didn’t say. Bastard
What I found interesting and I did not know is that they are paying high profile people to bash the President. So I bet all the stars that come out and say crap about the President like Rosanne Arquette” are getting paid for that.
I should have scrolled down to see your post that answered my question in #41.
What a pile of BS from the Nazis at the Washington Post. Just once, I wish you weenie pricks would dare to leave your Hitler compounds in DC so we could stomp your nuts into the concrete.
I wonder how much opium money Mcchrystal has salted away.
< They aren't hard to pick out.
Let’s see here Freepers : Let’s have a list of democratic ideals
First, kill babies even after they’re born
Two support illegal immigration and illegal immigrants, even if they’re criminals
Three , tax the crap out of everything and then tax everything somw more ; come up with new taxes on anything
Four - blur the lines between men and women ; tell boys they can compete in girls sports and go in their bathrooms
Ok add on !
Trump never said anything close to that.
What bullc&@p!!
So it turns out Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a traitor to all that’s good and decent in America.
Got it.
bfl
Spoken like someone who has no ideas, but plenty of "narrative"...
No surprise one has to be "an approved follower" in order to see any of his tweets...
This sounds like unwarranted political use of top secret military psy-ops weapons that should cause the civilian users of which to be raided and forced to cease and desist. Someone needs to get to court quickly; possible FEC violations as well.
Astroturf to oppose Trump grassroot support. Stay tuned.
We need to get to court quickly.
<><> an unwarranted political use of top secret military psy-ops weapons
<><> civilian users need to be raided,
<><> L/E should force users to cease and desist.
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Gee, they are pretty openly touting DoD technology in this WaPo story. So brazen about it.
I guess they figured no one would question the use of DoD technology. Agree, we need a full investigation...
Biden = 5.3 million Twitter followers
Trump = 79.4 million Twitter followers
Trump is master of the digital airwaves. Slick and meaningful digital ads, War Room TV, connection with supporters via text messaging.
Brad Parscale and Dan Savino’s teams are kicking butt!
The only thing the guy in the basement has going for him is the "D" next to his name.
There’s a ‘social distancing’ going on with Demorat voters really not wanting to associate too much with Biden because obviously they see and understand he’s got mental issues and clearly unfit to be President. So they skirt around it a whole lot.
Even so they’ll vote for Biden....’Anyone but Trump’ still is their motto.
Biden = 5.3 million Twitter followers
Trump = 79.4 million Twitter followers
The followers must be trying to tell us something......cackle.
“D” actually represents Dummy. Long gone are the days when persons were proud to be democrats. (Can you blame them?)
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