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by 2Ccltvcm 2581 days ago
Social media is at the very core of 4th generation warfare. Social media is more powerful than nukes because he who controls the discourse of the public is more powerful than he who destroys the public. He who controls the social network can make people believe whatever he wants them to believe to achieve his goals. Vastly more powerful, invisible, and humane than nuclear weapons, especially in terms of reach. What we are already witnessing online is an information war which hijacks and disrupts our social connections and thought processes to replace them with highly engineered stimuli which steer the people to think and act in a certain way. Neural networks are in development which will provide a positive feedback loop to continually evolve puppet account discourse in a way which maximally achieves the goals of a behavioral campaign. Phrases which maximize psychological impact for each campaign will be identified and automatically evolved based on replies and related discourse to always maintain maximum engagement as the overton windows shifts. These experiments are already well underway.