Almost done with the Kathleen Carley lecture. Apparently a ton of research is being done on what is called social cybersecurity. Where cybersecurity is defense against the hacking of "machines", social cybersecurity is defense against the hacking of people/users ideologically.
She got into how echo chambers are formed, and worked out a ton of terminology around these things. An acronym BEND explains the various tactics of ideological manipulation, and how these tactics revolved around the basic dichotomy of narrative and community (manipulating the information, and manipulating the people)
Community / Positive
-Build
-Back
-Boost
-Bridge
Narrative / Positive
-Enhance
-Explain
-Encite
-Engage
Community / Negative
-Nuke
-Neutralize
-Neglect
-Narrow
Narrative / Negative
-Dismiss
-Distort
-Dismay
-Distract
You get the gist - there are a variety of ways to reinforce narratives, reinforce communities, destabilize narratives, and destabilize communities.
Some of the tactics, which we have talked about here, are pretty bulletproof. If you want to destabilize a particular person, you flood their followers list with thousands of bots, and then mobilize the bots to act in "lewd" or reprehensible manners. The person, now associated with more and more banned users, will then have to dig themselves out of that hole. But as Carley points out, it takes more time and effort to get a bot banned than it does to create a new, or several new, bots.
Plenty more stuff like this, should anyone wanna check it out (I posted the video on the previous page). I'm almost finished with it.