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Trump is now sending notes to online meme producers to make bullshit content and spread it across corporate social media (including #meta properties):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/us/politics/trump-meme-trolls-2024.html
It doesn't have to be true, it just has to go viral -- that's the logic.
A quick reminder that @seanlawson and I describe these processes at length in our book Social Engineering (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543453/)
A *lot* of #AoIR2023 participants are talking about #disinformation and #misinformation.
May I humbly suggest my latest book, co-authored with @seanlawson: Social Engineering (MIT Press 2022)?
Wherein Sean and I use hacker social engineering -- a very effective form of manipulative communication -- to look back over the history of #propaganda and forward to the current, algorithmic form of disinformation we call "masspersonal social engineering"
It's #openaccess
Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry—examined through the lens of social engineering.The...
I have a piece in MacLean's about #AI, #SocialMedia (specifically corporate social media), #politics, and #disinformation.
https://macleans.ca/society/technology/ai-political-polarization/
It's an "as told by" article where I was interviewed by Jadine Ngan.
[edited to fix the link]
In The Conversation, @seanlawson and I parse AI manipulative communication. We draw on the concepts from our book, Social Engineering, to do so:
Back in September, I was honored that the Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute at the University of Utah, for which I am the Director, hosted a talk by the great @emmalbriant. If you were unable to attend in person, have no fear. You can check out "Mercenaries of Deceit: Understanding Propaganda and Digital Dark Arts" on our YouTube channel!
Better late than never, here's my run-down of the war over the Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar last week.
This is my (roughly) weekly summary of coverage touching on expectations for the war and observed effects, possible reasons for success and failure, the role of Western assistance to Ukraine, information and influence operations, newly reported cyber operations, and predictions of what comes next and lessons learned.
This week's newsletter is a whopping 3,089 words. You can find it here:
https://www.seanlawson.net/2022/12/the-russia-ukraine-cyberwar-war-27-nov-04-dec-2022/
Better late than never, here's my run-down of the war over the Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar last week.
This is my (roughly) weekly summary of coverage touching on expectations for the war and observed effects, possible reasons for success and failure, the role of Western assistance to Ukraine, information and influence operations, newly reported cyber operations, and predictions of what comes next and lessons learned.
This week's newsletter is a whopping 3,089 words. You can find it here:
https://www.seanlawson.net/2022/12/the-russia-ukraine-cyberwar-war-27-nov-04-dec-2022/
Since February, I have been keeping track of the role of cyber warfare in the Russia-Ukraine war. I have also been keeping track of the public debate about the role of cyber warfare, what I like to call "the cyberwar war." This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly post detailing what I’ve uncovered about expectations and effects in the ongoing cyber and information/influence components of the war, reasons posited for successes and failures, recently revealed operations, and expectations for the future of cyber and information/influence operations in the current war and beyond.
https://www.seanlawson.net/2022/11/the-russia-ukraine-cyberwar-war-20-26-nov-2022/
Robert W. Gehl
