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I’ve a brand new ebook popping out in June, and New Scientist is guilty. Again in the summertime of 2020, I wrote this column a few research led by computational social scientist Meysam Alizadeh, who labored to algorithmically predict waves of propaganda on Twitter and Reddit. Alizadeh mentioned he and his colleagues wished to create a “propaganda weather report” so that folks on social media could be forewarned about incoming affect campaigns. It appeared like a terrific thought.
As we talked, I instructed Alizadeh a few advanced psychological operations (psy ops) marketing campaign I had witnessed on Twitter –…
