How Syria’s White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/syria-white-helmets-conspiracy-theories
The Russian strategy has been very successful at shaping the online conversation about the White Helmets. By gaming the social media algorithms with a flood of content, boosted by bots, sock puppet accounts and a network of agitators, propagandists are able to create a “manufactured consensus” that gives legitimacy to fringe views. Even Russia’s official channels, such as its UK embassy Twitter accounts, post memes discrediting the organisation.
“If you scroll through tweets about the White Helmets, pretty much every other conversation is equating them with Isis, calling them terrorists. It looks like they are the bad guys,” said Sam Woolley, who studies computational propaganda at the University of Oxford
un article qui va « un peu » à l’encontre de ce qu’on lit en général sur seenthis…
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