The National Science Foundation has issued two quarter-of-a-million-dollar grants for “Leveraging Personalized Internet Services to Combat Online Trolling.” The grant defines online trolling as, “scenarios in which various groups deploy tactics to influence public opinion on the Internet, by leaving biased, false, misleading, and inauthentic comments, and then artificially amplifying their ratings,” so you can immediately Read More…
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Warfare Propaganda Equals Propaganda Warefare
George Orwell—sardonic political commentator through disturbed, poetic metaphor—forever changed the landscape of modern propaganda by mirroring traditional geopolitical trends of propaganda and transposing it onto a horrific, futuristic dystopian society. In addition to “1984,” most of Orwell’s work was politically charged, if not always philosophically charged, as even “Animal Farm” is known to be a Read More…