Political Narrative Manipulation
The cluster focuses on discussions about how political actors, media, and groups use disinformation, sensationalism, extreme voices, and controversy to shape public opinion, steer discourse, influence elections, and push agendas while discrediting opposition.
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Maybe publicity? The group in charge knows they can do no wrong, and I would bet their voters liked the rhetoric in the chat. Maybe they use controversy as a tool to keep people distracted (or even lead them to check out).
I believe that these 'nutjobs' were promoted to the forefront of popular discussion for purposes of sensationalism and to discredit more careful dissenting voices by association.In many ways, it makes sense to try to get the entire population on board with a single narrative, in order to have a coherent response to an emerging situation. On the other hand, it opens the doors to corruption by leaving those in charge with no credible voices willing to criticize or draw attention to th
use case is to spread misconceptions in the society (that's what bad guys want right?) in an automated way. especially during elections.
Deceiving the public with a fake narrative of popular support harms society.
Looks like they've struck again ;). These people don't want discourse or facts, they just want to shape the narrative. Shame on them.
Probably but it's also more complicated than such a simplistic analysis. I think they want to jam the communications in general. Make big problems seem small. Make small problems seem big. Make people suspect legitimate debaters of being trolls.
It is possible they were mistaken. The extreme voices get magnified at these things, I'd guess.Maybe it is an attempt to slow the shift in the Overton window?
Thats their strategy. They do not need proofs just spread confusion to prevent sane discussion.
I think the goal is to anchor the discourse around "the gov is censoring speech" and let high-rank politicians talk about it openly, since now they are backed by undeniable facts. A few weeks ago anyone auggesting the gov is censoring twitter would be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. Now anyone who says the opposite will be seen as a fool or a shill. The goal has been achieved, in other words.
Reads like targeted disinformation. Always interesting to see how people attempt to steer public discourse.