johanharto.bsky.social

New paper out in BJSPl! We examine how pro-Russian supporters in Romania & Moldova use identity-driven narratives to justify the war in Ukraine via moral disengagement & social creativity.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

#UkraineWar #CollectiveIdentity #MoralDisengagement #Polarisation

I wrote this in 2022 but it’s become a focus again as Bluesky & decentralized infrastructure makes experimentation more possible. 🙂 While writing it, I went and found conference proceedings from a famous 1971 talk on attention by Herbert Simon; they were having the same conversation we are today…

Brief: Anti-Social Media (w/Renee Diresta) — Conspirituality Julian talks to digital disinformation expert Renee Diresta about the massive Big Tech realignment with MAGA

Julian sits down with @noupside.bsky.social to discuss Big Social's realignment with MAGA. If fact checking is biased, content moderation is censorship, and combating foreign propaganda is anti-free speech, WTF now?

www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-anti-social-media-renee-diresta

Honey what social media platforms are legal in China?

How to fight an epidemic of bad faith Disinformation researcher Renée DiResta on the "invisible rulers" shaping politics and reality in our very online world

Chatted with Adam Lowenstein for The Ink about how to fight an epidemic of bad faith.

Not sure I have the answers here, but a lot of good people are trying to figure it out…

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Joe Rogan Experience #2237 - Mike Benz 173,260 views 4h ago The Joe Rogan Experience ...more PowerfulJRE 18.7M Subscribe

This guy worked for State Dept for ~2 months. He has no inside knowledge of anything he talks about, even as he claims he ‘watched a censorship regime grow from the inside.’ It’s all bullshit. And the absolute credulity displayed by Rogan here is why commentary & journalism aren’t the same.

Renee is on to you, you're scared and therefore you have to smear her.

Deep state operatives like you are going to be exposed in the x-files when Elon sells X.

You're intentionally putting flouride into the water so that people will be too dumb to draw the connection in the future.

Exactly what a deep state operative would say of her, are you also one of the people who are putting flouride in our water to keep our IQ low?

Are you behind the round earth conspiracy that is attempting to censor the flat earth society?

You're a clear deep state operative!

I can't stop laughing!!!

We leveled your cities, carried out mass executions of civilians and POWs, denied your nationhood and language, denied your agency to conduct foreign policy, and invaded you twice. But if you downsize your army and become neutral, we promise we won't touch you again, trust me bro

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I hope that things balance themselves out here, because it seems to me like this is what happened so far and I'm no fan of it.

In the Central African Republic, a former propagandist lifts the veil on the inner workings of Russian disinformation Central African journalist Ephrem Yalike offers evidence revealing, for the first time, the relentless influence exerted in his country by Russia.

A must read from Forbidden Stories, confirming what many African IO researchers could only see the silhouette of:

forbiddenstories.org/in-the-centr...

51°35'16.4"N 34°56'25.4"E

A guy on Twitter geolocated it to in the vicinity of here

Thank you!

Those “personal opinions” that kill kids, you know the ones. Push back on those. But otherwise he means well!

The CO governor does not have to normalize repugnant crackpot RFK Jr, yet here he is.

I Richard Spencer still considered a white nationalist? He seems to changed his views a lot over the last couple of years.

@hanyangsydney.bsky.social

What accounts should I follow that monitors China and Taiwan?

Do you know of any lists?

Testing the humor barometer on this platform

Very happy to have you here, you've always had a very clear picture of Russia and I always read what you have to say.

One of the authors behind the publication.

I think Tarek should be removed, as he's a racist

This probably sounded better in its original North Korean.

I see, an assumption on my part, my bad!

Graph of "how much power does this group have" vs. "How much do they agree with you on an issue?"

Here's a quick mock-up of a graph I teach.

When scientists first get involved in policy activism, their first instinct is to try and persuade people in area A, people who most strongly disagree with them. However, those people often have no power. You can't persuade them, and also it doesn't matter

Perhaps there are more males than females on Bluesky?

Anecdotal evidence is based on what you yourself can observe, because this can be biased, you can refer to it, because what people see depends on what they read for example and the people around them.

Otherwise it can be dismissed as anecdotal evidence, be happy instead that you can have something else to refer too.

Otherwise it can be dismissed as anecdotal evidence, be happy instead that you can have something else to refer too.

YouTube video by Smithsonian Channel Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of 1940s Nazi Sympathizers

youtu.be/ycHvBT6op5Q?...

It's eerie how the far left/far right isolationists sounds exactly like Charles Lindbergh did in the 1940's.

What's the issue here, what are you afraid of?