A reminder that Mike Flynn did get Rex Tillerson to use SCL/CA as a producer of US propaganda.
“CambAnal” makes a good shortened reference for Cambridge Analytica since the US did get twerked in 2016. OTOH, it’s time to have some Congressional hearings, isn’t it.
SCL Group, the shadowy psychological marketing data conglomerate involved in both the Donald Trump and Brexit victories, has recently been awarded a defense contract with the US State Department’s newest propaganda unit, aided by the recent lobbying and advisement of the disgraced former National Security Adviser and now-registered foreign agent Michael Flynn.
Reams of information abound across the internet if you require a primer on the involvement of SCL Group subsidiary Cambridge Analytica as part of Steve Bannon errr Donald Trump’s presidential campaign powerhouse data team (alongside Brad Parscale, Gary Coby, and the RNC tech squad) and Brexit’s Leave media operations teams.
Importantly, it seems apparent that bot account networks & hashtags, cookie-cutter websites/blogs, and secret social media “dark posts” visible only to curated individual citizens were deployed — often based around disinformation aka “fake news” — in order to alter opinions but also to manufacture trending topics, commandeer political narratives, and manipulate the larger sociocultural dialogue of the entire populace.
Behavior change campaigns? That is precisely the definition of psychological warfare a/k/a psychological operations a/k/a PSYOPS. Alongside military mechanisms of Information Operations, Media Operations, and Electronic Warfare, PSYOPS are “designed to alter the ‘behaviour’, ‘perception’ and ‘attitudes’ of the target individuals and groups.” Also known as Military Information Support Operations (MISO), this typically happens through either ‘Influence Activities’ which influence the will of targets or ‘Counter Command Activities’ which affect the capability of targets.
Re-establish our national identity as a global consumer brand of choice. The neuropolitical implications of that statement are astounding. That American identity has been de-established? How? That there is a marketplace of global consumers who haven’t yet been offered the right identity product to fit their needs? Where? That nationalism is both quantifiable and for sale? Why?
So thanks to Mike “Turk-182” Flynn, now UK’s SCL Group will partner with “Rushin’” Rex Tillerson’s GEC as they “collect and store examples in print, online, and social media, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda directed at the United States and its allies and partners,” in order to “maintain, collect, use, and disseminate records for research and data analysis,” wherein “the term ‘record’ means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual,” and where “the term ‘individual’ means a citizen of the United States”?
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