[Ipg-smz] Bro culture in action

[Stephen Satchell]

On 2/17/19 5:37 AM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
> We are living in a time of information warfare, the weaponizing of facts
> and events with the aim of twisting opinions on behalf of specific causes
> and people.
> 
> This is what Putin unleashed on us in 2016. But similar things had been
> going on for years. This is how ISIS came to be. Sometimes it's between
> very disparate countries, like Pakistan and Ireland. Sometimes between
> neighbors, like Ukraine and Russia.
> 
> But we know that facts are twisted, manipulated online for political
> purposes, and that (so far) it's been the most nefarious, the most ruthless
> actors who've been behind it most of the time.
> 
> Point is, manipulating of hashtags can turn what looks like evidence of one
> thing into evidence of something very different.
> 
> We all need to become war correspondents.

War correspondents willing to dig in and research events, so that other
State parties can't "false flag".  Is it all Putin?  If I were a
nation-state wanting to take the USA down a peg or two, I would so want
to make some of it look like Russia is doing it.

One can't fight an enemy that can't be seen.

(Now back to my rush project with my oxygen-starved brain.)