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Election Propaganda: Part 2: Modern propaganda efforts.

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In preparation for the US 2024 Presidential Election, Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses recent international propaganda efforts in the form of nation state interference and influence operations as well as domestic campaigns designed to split the target country into opposing camps. Guests include Nina Jankowicz, Co-Founder and CEO of the The American Sunlight Project and Scott Small, Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Tidal Cyber. References: Scott Small, 2024. Election Cyber Interference Threats & Defenses: A Data-Driven Study [White Paper]. Tidal Cyber. Renee DiResta, 2024. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality [Book]. Goodreads. Nina Jankowicz, 2020. How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict [Book]. Goodreads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pepsi Max, thirsty for more. This is part two of our three-part election propaganda series.

1:16.0

In the first part last week, we covered how propaganda spreads on social media platforms via a

1:21.7

system of systems that is made up of five distinct

1:25.2

propaganda agents that I call the pentad. They are the platform, the

1:30.3

algorithm, the influencers, the crowd, and the media, where each element feeds the others

1:36.2

in a massive self-sustaining do loop designed to keep the machine humming and the crowd engaged

1:42.2

so that the platform owners can bring in massive amounts of

1:46.1

revenue.

1:47.9

And just so you know the ballpark of what we're talking about here.

1:50.8

In 2024 Facebook generated over 80 billion dollars in revenue.

1:56.2

Instagram almost 50 billion and YouTube close to 32 billion. We put this series

2:02.4

together because we have a theory that if average American

2:05.9

citizens not culture warriors looking for a fight but just normal people

2:10.3

trying to stay informed trying to separate the signal from the noise in order

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