>A case study in how NATO wanted to manipulate social media to suppress Islamist political resistance overseas.
https://ia801907.us.archive.org/11/items/nato-memetic-warfare/NATO%20Memetic%20Warfare.pdf
It's an interesting document when readers insert a cypher to replace "Islamic state" with "right wing political thought" and the like, and find the MO and results are exactly the same
>...joked about different ways to troll ISIS or Daesh. One could systematically lure and entrap (i.e. ‘catfish’) Daesh recruiters, as three Russian girls did in early 2015.
>One could water down its recruiting propaganda using fake ‘sock puppet’ Daesh accounts, creating hall-of-mirrors confusion for sympathizers and recruits.
>One could expose and harass people in Daesh’s funding network, including their family members.
>One could even play on Daesh’s prejudices, fears, and hypocrisies, enlisting gay activists worldwide to start and spread a #ISISisgay hashtag, the idea being to denigrate and ridicule Daesh in a way that weakens its appeal to recruits.
I honestly laugh when people nowadays talk about Democracy or other such farcical, clearly wrong ideas to describe our current system of government. If the memes you see are completely fake and created by the government to shore up failing political consensuses, aren't you just a farm animal?