@aspiringpeasant Ah, perhaps it's that they've amped up as a corrective element, particularly around Palestine, as major state and media actors have caved en masse to a form of systemic moral destitution. When @ft describes the West as succumbing to 'a kind of metaphysical detachment', it's bad.
@leashless "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”