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If your contribution to a debate about rising fascism in the US is "all is hopeless", "we are lost", "all is lost", "this cannot be stopped" or anything like that, then know that I'll take you for a false flag sock puppet sent to demoralize those fighting fascism.

I will block you on sight AS IF you were a fascist.

I don't have a lot of agency, but I can cheer my allies rather than demoralize them.

Pock Suppet: n
A stealth account created on a social media platform for the purpose of following another account without revealing the true identity behind the follow. Pock Suppet accounts may have a photo of #boobs or other explicit material in the profile, depending on the marks’ perceived predilections. Pock Suppets usually have few followers themselves, and even fewer posts, though in the latter case it’s not from lack of passionately held opinions.
#PockSuppet #SockPuppet

China behind fake accounts polling US voters on domestic political issues, Microsoft reports

The Chinese government appears to be operating fake social media accounts impersonating U.S. voters and polling followers about their views on domestic political issues, according to a new report from Microsoft.

thehill.com/policy/technology/

The Hill · China behind fake accounts polling US voters on domestic political issues: MicrosoftBy Julia Shapero

A #reactionary #crypto #techbro (but I repeat myself) has self-funded his own unofficial #NoCampaign for the upcoming Australian referendum on the #Indigenous #VoiceToParliament. To that end, he made various online video ads fearing an algorithmically-generated person of colour expressing their concerns about listening to #Aboriginal people when they say they want to be listened to.

Faced with the predictable backlash (and #FreePublicity, who would have thought it?), his response (only slightly translated): "how could you possibly think my ads opposing listening to Indigenous people would depict an Aboriginal person? Don't you realise that I'm targeting people who *don't* want to hear from Aboriginal voices? Why would I pick a fake Aboriginal person to make a #fearmongering claim about people falsely claiming to be Aboriginal? And anyway, I can always tell at a glance with 100% accuracy whether someone is Aboriginal or not, can't everyone?"

theguardian.com/australia-news
#auspol #racism #VoiceReferendum #voice #SockPuppet #AI

The GuardianUnofficial Indigenous voice no campaigner defends use of AI-generated ads on FacebookBy Josh Butler
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@georgelakoff 1) I’ve known how networked players work since I stumbled on the Russian #troll farm in 2014. I was following events in #Ukraine (#Maidan, the fleeing of the Pres, the new #democratic elections). I used a list of relevant keywords, plugged them into #tweetdeck. After my day was done in #SiliconValley, I’d browse. When workers arrived to the office in St Petersburg, I saw 100s of the same tweet come from 100s of #sockpuppet accounts simultaneously, flooding #Twitter.