Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. (This uses the same social media graph built before.) We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people (think nonsense reddit posts about conspiracies that sound like Markov chains of nonsense other people have said), or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can, at which points they’ve gotten a head start on going viral and tend to capture a larger-than-otherwise share of media attention.
(All of the stuff above is basically the “standard” for online PR (usually farmed out to an LLC with a generic name working for the marketing firm contracted by the big firm; deniability is a word frequently said), once you’re above a certain size.)
Are you advocating for the status quo?
Bug off with this half-wit insipid trolling.
If you have something to say, say it. Don’t just ask stupid leading questions.
History may not remember my words. But it will remember how dissenters were treated.
Your words are hollow bullshit get off your fucking high horse.
“Here’s how movements get derailed by trolls”
does exactly that
And you have the audacity to claim you’re not our enemy? Ballsy.
This is some proper AI-grade reading comprehension and sentence-making. Just nothing to do with the post or anything happening online or offline.
Amazing, sort of. In a way.
Trigger-happy braindead take
Glad you had time to come here. How was your evening?
I’m not your enemy. Glad to see you channeling your internal fascist.
What country are you from?
I’m not a fascist, you’re a fascist.