JRF Explores Troll Behavior, Manufactured Drama and Voter Manipulation
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Been wanting to share this info for quite awhile as it may explain some of the strange behavior we’ve been seeing on the internet. Manufactured Drama. Ugh.
Have you ever come across a dramatic, contentious string on the internet and find yourself absolutely shocked at the amount of time and energy some people seem to have for such efforts? The comment sections feel like a parallel reality.
When Kobe Bryant died, I saw a name pop up in the news: Ari Shaffir. I’d heard Joe Rogan talk about Ari and sensed this is not someone I’d personally want to be friends with. Apparently right after Kobe died, Ari posted something about being glad Kobe was dead because of his rape case from years ago. Prior to that, I already had the below podcast of Ari’s in my cue to listen to, from October. I started listening and it felt like a rabbit hole I didn’t even know existed. Listen in to two self-professed trolls talk about their craft. Ari calls professional trolling artistic…
This information is so in alignment with the strange world of Wetiko consciousness, from those under the spell of Wetiko, with seemingly high intelligence and yet using it literally to mess with people they don’t like, or anyone, especially if they are bored. Sigh and ugh and yuck.
The last part of the Ari interview goes into detail about the lengths that internet trolls went to in antagonizing actor Shia LaBeouf. It’s hard for most of us to even comprehend that line of effort and energy spent just towards messing with someone, especially when that person’s intentions are positive.
I know many in spirituality are certain that the world is in the midst of an awakening of consciousness. And yet, trolling like this is taking on new proportions, making me again question the narrative that everyone is waking up right now. I don’t see it. And I don’t feel like the continuing unconsciousness and wetiko behavior needs to deter anyone’s efforts and interest in being their inner light as brightly as they can.
Just watch out for the trolls and their bridges.
Another interview posted here is one from Sam Harris’ podcast which outlines some of the fake internet accounts created literally to divide American’s further than they were already divided. Renee’s research is amazing, especially it’s connections to Russia.
And finally, also related to internet experiences and social media as well as election influence, I found The Great Hack, a Netflix documentary very revealing. I think I’ve watched it more than once. It goes into great detail on Cambridge Analytica, the 2016 US Presidential Election, Brexit, Facebook and how info was gathered and then used to manipulate undecided voters. The examples of how elections/voters were manipulated in other countries was mind blowing… So, the next time you see one of those cute social media questionnaires to find out what Disney princess you are, please pause to consider how that data may be being used, even just by Facebook itself, as it builds a more detailed profile on you.
Ari Shaffir interviews Milo Yiannopoulus: two professional trolls discuss trolling – Click here
Special note: those here who are anti-vaxxers may become triggered as Sam’s guest, Renee, is a devoted pro-vaxxer and she seems to give no credit to those who intelligently question the health and credibility of vaccinations. But, hopefully you can set that part aside if you don’t agree with her on that to hear the rest of this insightful podcast as her research is fascinating. It is so valuable right now to be able to hear people, and see them as actual thinking and caring people, doing the best they can with what they know, even when we don’t agree.
Offered with love,
Jill
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I know some of you know this, but given all the quizzes and games I see in my Facebook feed with things like “Click here to find out your Irish name” I wanted to simply offer, with love and positive intent, the following for your consideration:
A lot, and possibly all, of the social media games and quizzes are used by organizations to gather data on you.
The quiz makers are so good at it right? I mean, I kind of also want to know my Irish name… kind of…
Those who create such quizzes don’t tell you that their real intent is to receive your answers to their questions, to build a more accurate profile of you. If they told you this, you may decide you don’t want to click and don’t need to know your Irish name, or whatever the quiz says about you.
Every answer you provide for that quiz is held in a database, used to more carefully target you and build a more accurate online profile of who you are, for the data holder to sell to others, so that they can target you with ads, political messages, and even propaganda…
This type of online quiz data was used extensively in 2016, with the data sold to companies like Cambridge Analytica, who then used the data to strategically influence the targeted groups on anything from Brexit to the US Presidential Election. Such data was also used to cause division and chaos in targeted parts of the world. In my estimation, these attempts at division have worked very, very well, with the effects continuing on to this day.
It seems like an innocent quiz, a fun online game to take and then share with others. Sometimes, it’s much more than that. That’s what I would like you to know. So that you can be informed and decide as you choose to.
Has Facebook and other social media outlets changed their policies since the problems they helped cause in 2016? They’d say yes. But, I haven’t read the latest User Agreements for FB and others and you may not have either.
Am I fear mongering, or informing? You get to decide for yourself. I learned so much in the last 12-18 months about how key issues can divide a country, can divide a community and can divide humanity. I share some of those resources here at https://jillreneefeeler.com/trollbehaviorexplored/