Israel Buys Social Media Monitoring System That Can 'Plant Ideas' in Online Discourse

Nothing new here.  This does however confirm the fallacy of a political resistance using social media platforms for organizing.  It's kind of like inviting the FBI to sit in and take part in your meetings.  Even if the core of groups use encryption for sensitive communications the entire online discussion, coordination of the rank and file and promotion of the movement on the Internet is an open door for manipulation.

This is not just about privacy.  It is about content, the framing ideas and toxic mental pollution by government and corporate trolls.  It certainly is, as the article says, already happening...Israel is just buying new software after all. Thus we can deduce that online discussions are already manipulated...seeded with misinformation...already pushed into frameworks that misinform, encourage infighting on the left and disunity of purpose.  This is no way to build a movement.


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