The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, and the biggest blue-chip brands and their ad agencies are the ones funding it—by stuffing money into a Rube Goldberg machine no one really understands.
#SurkovSiege /\ #PutinMediaInvasion
"That’s a problem Tolstoy dealt with in War and Peace. Here you have Napoleon ravaging Europe and now about to invade Russia, and Tolstoy raises this question: Is the leader really a leader, or is he simply the one out front on a wave? In psychological terms, the leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it." - Joseph Campbell, #PowerOfMyth 1988
Marshall McLuhan was telling me
Surkov cracked the monomyth, and Putin directed these patterns of memes and messages to be fed into the Internet as likes, votes, comments. #PeterPomerantsev talks about the payload, but the astroturf bottom-up approach flew under the radar of money (paid advertising) and such, but as this Wired article by #StevenBrill is saying now in 2024 - it doesn't even need to fly under the radar. Maybe the NSA / Intelligence Agencies are more on top of: free comments, likes, boosts.
