to me the timing of this story breaking. I first saw it yesterday, some outlets had it published the day before, in any event it coincides with the State Department telling Americans to get out of the Ukraine. Like I say I just thought the timing was a lil odd of those two events and like I was saying last night, here pretty soon? There's no gonna be able to be any "spin" or "propaganda" or "narrative" about what is going on in Ukraine.
It will be undeniable what is about to take place.
Meta and Twitter purge web of accounts spreading pro-US propaganda abroad
(My personal belief is this is just the tip of the iceberg. It's not just targeted abroad and it's not just social media. It's (pro-US propaganda) been directed at our own populace through every type media channel there is. This is classic "social engineering" diversion. By admitting, or getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar so to speak, it seeks to divert our attention from what is actually going on right underneath our noses. As long as they spin it as having been targeted to "those groups of peoples" in "those locations" and "without much affect"? Then why would a populace look critically at the media they are consuming domestically? I'm telling ya I saw right through all this nonsense about Ukraine fighting the Russians to a standstill from the get go and people know it because I told them, Pastor Mickey :-).
"In the post-2016 U.S. election world, secretive online campaigns designed to influence global politics are nothing new. And while U.S. adversaries like Russia, Iran and China have been linked to government propaganda on major social media sites, there's been little evidence to date of the U.S. and its allies leveraging the same techniques to shape international opinion, though it's difficult to imagine they wouldn't."
"This week, for the first time, social networks in partnership with social analytics research group Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory have surfaced a pro-U.S. influence campaign, operating across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media apps. Both Meta and Twitter stopped short of attributing the activity to any specific government or organization, with Twitter listing the campaign's "presumptive countries of origin" as the U.S. and the U.K. while Meta identified the U.S. as the "country of origin" for the activity.
(A mind with discernment might wanna know why they, "stopped short of attributing the activity to any specific government or organization" Because they didn't know what specific government or organization it was? Or because theses corporations knew but were told not to divulge such information? I wonder which one of those options might be in play here? :-). Yes Thats sarcasm.)
"The network of accounts sought to influence public opinion in Asia and the Middle East by promoting pro-Western viewpoints in those regions, including criticism of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The accounts sometimes linked to news stories from U.S.-funded media outlets Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other websites with financial ties to the U.S. military.
"We believe this activity represents the most extensive case of covert pro-Western [influence operations] on social media to be reviewed and analyzed by open-source researchers to date," Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory wrote in the paper analyzing the activity.
(It's the tip of the iceberg and it's not just social media and it's not just targeted abroad. This is the diversion so you don't look to closely at what is going here domestically).
"...this operation also relied on fake personas sporting AI-generated faces made with a technique known as GANs (generative adversarial networks). These artificially generated faces are used to evade detection, but because their visual signatures often end up with small anomalies, GANs can sometimes be easily detected. Using the fake personas, the influence campaign posed as independent journalists, using short videos, memes, hashtag campaigns and petitions to drive its messaging.
(How many times have I sat here and said/thought, who is paying all these people to say this nonsense? Maybe they weren't really people at all but: fake personas sporting AI-generated faces, posed as independent journalists, using short videos, memes, hashtag campaigns and petitions to drive its messaging."? The point being? We cant tell real from not real anymore. Deception of and on this type of scale is something humanity has never had to deal with before and it is the reason I keep harping on
Matthew 24:3-4
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.
Also, studies have shown people find AI generated faces more trustworthy that actual people.
Why AI-Synthesized Faces Might Be More Trustworthy Than Real Faces
(“In addition to finding that naive respondents were at chance in determining if a face was real or synthetic, we also found that additional training and feedback improved performance only slightly,” says Nightingale. “Perhaps most interestingly, we found that not only are synthetic faces highly realistic, they are deemed more trustworthy than real faces. As a result, it is reasonable to be concerned that these faces could be highly effective when used for nefarious purposes.”)
Now back to the article about Meta (FB) and twitter
"In spite of its multipronged approach, the campaign wasn't able to get much traction, with most posts and tweets only picking up a "handful" of likes or interactions. Less than a fifth of the fake accounts accrued more than 1,000 followers, though two of the more popular accounts linked to the campaign explicitly claimed connections to the U.S. military."
(Thats the "Don't worry about us doing it here to you", "it didn't work very well over there to them" part of the equation.)
"With few exceptions, the study of modern [influence operations] has overwhelmingly focused on activity linked to authoritarian regimes in countries such as Russia, China and Iran, with recent growth in research on the integral role played by private entities," the researchers wrote. "This report illustrates the wider range of actors engaged in active operations to influence online audiences."
("the integral role played by private entities" Such as? meta? Twitter? Google? Amazon? Who exactly? And what exactly is there role?)
"This report illustrates the wider range of actors engaged in active operations to influence online audiences."
(Who exactly? Becomes the question.)
To late...
P.S.
The, "Well the tribulation could have been (insert any particular time frame you wish, WWI?, WWII? The dark ages) is hereby rendered null and void for all eternity. No other generation has had this:
"fake personas sporting AI-generated faces...used to evade detection, Using the fake personas...posed as independent journalists, using short videos, memes, hashtag campaigns and petitions to drive its messaging."
“Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.
Let alone this:
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words,
and seal the book,
even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro,
(Ever since the onset of the industrial revolution mans lifestyle has become more and more hectic that's pretty hard to deny)
and knowledge shall be increased.
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