What kind of influence operations can be conducted through digital media such as social media, in order to manipulate public opinion and create a desired political or social outcome?
What kind of influence operations can be conducted through digital media such as social media, in order to manipulate public opinion and create a desired political or social outcome?
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Digital media can be used to conduct a range of influence operations aimed at manipulating public opinion and achieving desired outcomes. These operations include spreading disinformation, targeted hacking and data gathering operations, psychological programming through online content such as videos and articles, astroturfing through false identities to create the illusion of popular support for an initiative, sponsoring online political discussions and protests, voter profiling via data analytics on social media platforms. All these types of activities are potential sources of manipulation that attempt to create an environment favourable for a particular political or social outcome.
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What kind of influence operations can be conducted through digital media such as social media, in order to manipulate public opinion and create a desired political or social outcome?
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Digital media can be used for a wide range of influence operations that aim to manipulate public opinion and create desired outcomes. In particular, one can use digital media for false or misleading narratives about a given candidate or political party, as well as disinformation tactics. Additionally, malicious actors are capable of using bots and trolls to spread divisive comments and messages designed to exacerbate existing divides or create new ones. Moreover, these bad actors could also employ coordinated inauthentic activities that use coordinated propaganda from multiple sources on multiple platforms in order to promote particular interests. Lastly, this type of manipulation campaign could leverage deep fakes-generated audio or video content with manipulated content designed to promote specific political views or social movements.
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