Propaganda and Troll Activities.

[Leonardo17]

I decided to add a thread like this because it’s been more than once that some people have accused me of being a troll in these platforms.
 
The facts are clear:

- Ordinary media has been used to influence people’s way of thing since the day they were invented.

- When digital medias popularity rose dramatically in the 2010’s now we have people with fake ID’s everywhere, fake narratives, fake news that are being spread with total impunity on all social media platforms, fake young Asian girls scamming middle aged men and emptying their bank accounts, even AI generated images and voices of your own kids begging you to put some amount of money in some bank account so that their captives agree to release them.
 
The main problem is that this is even happening in real life. People are constantly being gas lighted by their bosses, coworkers other students etc.
 
So everybody needs to put some systems in place here:

1) I watch and read only reliable sources of information (since I started reading the news at all)

2) You need a critical mindset. We are social beings and our tendency is usually to follow the pack. But even if you want to be a remotely political person, you need to stop doing that and start thing for yourselves.

Ex: Before the Iran war I was the only D. Trump critic (in many places). Today I don’t know anyone who supports his war on Iran except me. So people are sheeps. Don’t be a sheep.

3) Be vigilant and put some sort of limits to all forms of social media. All that data that we are giving out, we don’t even know who is collecting them and to what purpose.

4) If you are still being trolled by some people, the solution is to say “Shame on you if you fool me once. Shame on me if you fool me twice”. These thing happen outside of the internet realm too.