Related video I saw yesterday: TikTok is a Cyberweapon[0].
I don't love the way he presented the idea, a bit handwavey and not properly acknowledging the fact that TikTok is only different from other socials because it's a) very good algorithm-wise, and b) Chinese. But the demo of how one would astroturf a protest was very convincing. He should have just done it, it would have been groundbreaking.
Agreed. It's a problem across the board. Insta can do the same thing. It's just that one is US agitprop, one is Chinese.
We need to train our friends and citizens on how to be effective at changing the world around them and at communicating, and how not to let social media influence them directly.
Sadly, the people who are otherwise smart who I know are further left totally reject mainstream media as "complicit in US government crimes" and so on.
I don't love the way he presented the idea, a bit handwavey and not properly acknowledging the fact that TikTok is only different from other socials because it's a) very good algorithm-wise, and b) Chinese. But the demo of how one would astroturf a protest was very convincing. He should have just done it, it would have been groundbreaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB7WzqUq4Nk