Astroturf and manipulation of media messages

Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevadaShow more

Everyone Needs to practice Discernment and TEST Everything and Everyone

I believe this is to make everyone have to be VERIFIED by biometric digital id with Zero Trust by MIT and the DOD by 2027

Europa The Last Battle

https://archive.org/details/europa_the_last_battle_full

Protocols of Zion

https://ia800902.us.archive.org/9/items/LindseyProtocolsComplete/The%20Protocols%20of%20the%20Learned%20Elders%20of%20Zion%20In%20Modern%20English.pdf

Digital ID- UN Sustainable Development Agenda 16

https://rumble.com/v33o9ud-digital-id-un-sustainable-development-agenda-16.html

Closing the IT Security Gap: The State of Zero Trust and SASE Security Architectures in 2023 New challenges are prompting
the adoption of new security models. Zero Trust and SASE
(Secure Access Service Edge) architectures hold the promise of

https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/infographic/Ponemon-Closing-IT-Security-Gap_Infographic.pdf

The State of SD-WAN, SASE and Zero Trust Security Architectures

https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/Aruba-Ponemon-Report-2021.pdf

A news consumer’s guide to ‘astroturf’ sources

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/405807-a-news-consumers-guide-to-astroturf-sources/

Detecting astroturf lobbying movements

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2057047320969435

Sharyl Attkisson: Astroturf And Manipulation Of Media Messages

https://truthinplainsight.com/sharyl-attkisson-astroturf-and-manipulation-of-media-messages/

The Smear; How Shady Political Operatives And Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, And How You Vote ( 2017) Sharyl Attkisson

https://archive.org/details/the-smear-how-shady-political-operatives-and-fake-news-control-what-you-see-what/page/n253/mode/2up

Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington

https://archive.org/details/stonewalledmyfig0000attk

https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/sharyl-attkisson/pdf-epub-stonewalled-my-fight-for-truth-against-the-forces-of-obstruction-intimidation-and-harassment-in-obamas-washington-download/

Media Manipulation Tricks Exposed

https://westernman.org/media-manipulation

Astroturf and manipulation of media messages

https://www.oshonews.com/2017/01/20/astroturf-and-manipulation-of-media-messages/

Astroturfing

https://psynso.com/astroturfing/

Astroturf lobbying in the EU: The case of shale gas exploration

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brieuc-Lits-2/publication/339489883_Astroturf_lobbying_in_the_EU_The_case_of_shale_gas_exploration/links/5ecf6f794585152945184272/Astroturf-lobbying-in-the-EU-The-case-of-shale-gas-exploration.pdf

Controlling astroturfing on the internet: A survey on detection techniques and research challenges

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Syed-Mahbub/publication/333012733_Controlling_astroturfing_on_the_internet_A_survey_on_detection_techniques_and_research_challenges/links/5d96ca08a6fdccfd0e745b61/Controlling-astroturfing-on-the-internet-A-survey-on-detection-techniques-and-research-challenges.pdf

Exposing Photo Manipulation with Reflection and Shadows

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristin-R/publication/326550539_Exposing_Photo_Manipulation_with_Reflection_and_Shadows/links/5b555d82aca27217ffb32699/Exposing-Photo-Manipulation-with-Reflection-and-Shadows.pdf

Opening Your Eyes
The messages we get from sources such as media and web sites contain more and more artificial paid-for reality where truth gets mixed with the narratives that companies, organizations and governments want to put out.

http://reality101.info/en/astroturfing.htm

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https://www.ocweekly.com/anaheim-first-kicks-off-town-hall-series-carves-out-astroturf-agenda/

Astroturfing: As fake as it sounds

https://newslit.org/tips-tools/astroturfing-as-fake-as-it-sounds/

Astroturf – Fake Grassroots Movements Manipulate Media On Entire Internet, Wikipedia And Other Publications

https://web.archive.org/web/20220118064918/http://alexanderhiggins.com/astroturf-fake-grassroots-movements-manipulate-media-messages-on-entire-internet-wikipedia-and-other-publications/

ACSH is astroturf, here's why
The American Council on Science and Health recently got some exposure on twitter, then a little too much exposure, after publishing this highly problematic (and hysterically bad) op-ed/infographic on twitter and on their site.

https://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2017/03/09/acsh-is-astroturf-heres-why

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https://mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/astroturfing-how-hijacked-accounts-and-dark-public-relations-faked-support-chinas

Role of ai in social media

https://www.mytechblog.net/artificial-intelligence-in-social-media-4064/

Here’s how “astroturfers” work:

Six Hallmarks of Astroturf

Use of inflammatory language such as “crank,” “quack,” “nutty,” “liar,” “paranoid,” “pseudo,” “denier,” “myth,” “debunked,” “discredited” and “conspiracy.” This language tests as effective in influencing people to form the desired opinion.

Frequent use of phrases such as “everyone knows,” “everyone agrees” and “settled science” — even though “everyone,” in fact, does not “know” or “agree,” and the science may be far from “settled.”

Claiming damaging information to be a “myth” that has been “debunked”
— even though the information may not be mythical at all.
The strategy works well in changing minds: People hear something’s a “myth” and instantly declare themselves too smart to fall for it.

Labeling of facts that are detrimental to their paid interests as “old news” or agenda-driven.

Attaching politics to a topic they wish to squelch. That effectively “controversializes” the issue and divides public opinion so that no more than half of people will typically believe or pay attention to the offending information.

Attempts to convince people that there’s only one legitimate side of a controversy and that any contrary information should be censored entirely from the public because it’s harmful or discredited,
and so people shouldn’t be allowed to consider it.

Ten Common Astroturf Tactics

Flooding social media with comments and content under multiple pseudonyms, sometimes with assistance from specially designed software.
One astroturfer, a former military officer, told me “an entire movement can be started with 140 characters and a handful of fake Twitter accounts.”

Organized posting of comments on the Federal Register, as if by ordinary Americans, to influence public policy.

Around-the-clock monitoring of influencers in media, news and public policy to deploy rapid response countermeasures intended to controversialize all work that threatens the paid agenda.

Controlling topics and pages on Wikipedia on behalf of paid interests; reverting or disallowing edits on topics they seek to control.

Training armies of analysts to appear on news programs, be quoted in articles, pitch “stories” and research to reporters, and “leak” to the press.

Writing and placing of “news articles,” blogs and ghostwritten letters to the editor in national publications.

Facilitating and placing “scientific” studies to confuse the information landscape on issues they seek to control or controversialize.

Hiring of scientists, doctors and university researchers to speak out, write letters or conduct studies with the desired results, often without disclosing the financial interests who are behind them.

Boycotts that aren’t driven by ordinary consumers but are organized by linked advocacy groups and nonprofits.

Assuming the identity of the opposition to conduct controversial or outrageous acts, then publicly blame the acts on the opponent.

What to Watch For

You can suspect organized efforts to influence opinion when you see the same few stories reported in the news, similar descriptions being used and the same people being quoted.
After all, there are thousands of legitimate news stories that could be reported on a given day;
when so many are on the same topic, it might be the result of successful astroturf campaigns.

Astroturfers tend to controversialize the people,
personalities and organizations surrounding an issue.

When you see personal attacks that don’t have much to do with the facts of the matter, it could be an astroturf campaign.

Interests who seek to manipulate public opinion have acknowledged that, at times, their only goal is to introduce so much confusing information into the mix that people end up not knowing what to believe and tune everything out.

That serves the purpose of deflecting attention from true information that’s damaging to the paid interests.

Efforts to “curate” or “fact check” information often are backed by interests who seek to censor particular views and facts.

Initiatives to promote “media literacy” and anti-“fake news” laws and curricula in schools are sometimes backed by paid interests who seek to control narratives rather than promote critical thinking or the truth.

Finally, astroturfers tend to reserve all of their public skepticism for those exposing wrongdoing rather than the wrongdoers.

In other words, instead of questioning authority, they question those who question authority — such as whistleblowers and reporters.

It’s more important than ever to seek diverse information sources. Make up your own mind.
Do your own research.
Think for yourself.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://web.archive.org/web/20160203122504/http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf

original link found on Tedx talks

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