#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #france #frontiere #couples
#loveisnottourism : séparés par le coronavirus, les couples binationaux se mobilisent pour se retrouver en France | CNEWS
▻https://www.cnews.fr/france/2020-08-04/loveisnottourism-separes-par-le-coronavirus-les-couples-binationaux-se-mobilis
Les images des destructions à Beyrouth sont épouvantables :
https://img.aws.la-croix.com/2006/07/13/515323/2006-7-14-bombardement1_0_730_273.jpg 
https://previews.123rf.com/images/homeros/homeros1301/homeros130100355/17392758-beyrouth-liban-juillet-20-2006-bâtiments-détruits-par-les-bombardements-israéliens-dans-la-ville-de-beyrou.jpg 
https://artinlebanon.e-monsite.com/medias/album/images/46423740beyrouth-le-23-juille-2006-jpg.jpg 
https://previews.123rf.com/images/homeros/homeros1301/homeros130100351/17392770-beyrouth-liban-juillet-20-2006-bâtiments-détruits-par-les-bombardements-israéliens-dans-la-ville-de-beyrou.jpg 
https://previews.123rf.com/images/homeros/homeros1301/homeros130100399/17522622-beyrouth-liban-juillet-20-2006-bâtiments-détruits-par-les-bombardements-israéliens-dans-la-ville-de-beyrou.jpg 
https://img.aws.la-croix.com/2006/07/16/515355/2006-7-16-beyrouth1_0_730_273.jpg 
https://www.gatsbyonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/beyrouth16.jpg Ah, pardon, ça c’est Beyrouth bombardé par Israël en 2006.
C’est bien il y en a qui sont contents:
تويتر \ 🇱🇧 Lebanese News and Updates على تويتر: “Israel’s Moshe Feiglin:” I feel happy about what happened in Beirut, this is a gift by God to the Israelis on the event of the Jewish holiday of love that started yesterday and ends today" ▻https://t.co/bEwYvn4jOb"
▻https://twitter.com/UpdatesLebanese/status/1290955460900720640
Israel’s Moshe Feiglin: “I feel happy about what happened in Beirut, this is a gift by God to the Israelis on the event of the Jewish holiday of love that started yesterday and ends today”
#Loveparade - Die Verhandlung
Am 24. Juli 2010 kommt es bei der Loveparade in Duisburg zur Katastrophe: 21 Menschen sterben im Gedränge, 652 werden verletzt. Erst mehr als sieben Jahre später, im Dezember 2017, beginnt die juristische Aufarbeitung der Katastrophe. Chronologisch folgt der Dokumentarfilm dem Prozess.
Eine gigantische Rave-Party endete in Tod und Verzweiflung. Wer ist für die Tragödie verantwortlich? 21 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung war die Loveparade in Duisburg angekommen. Was einst als Kleinstparade im Westberlin der Wendezeit begann, war längst zu einem Millionenspektakel von weltweiter Anziehungskraft geworden. An diesem 24. Juli 2010 kommt es in Duisburg zur Katastrophe: Auf den Zu- und Abgangswegen zum Festgelände stauen sich Zehntausende Menschen. 21 Menschen sterben im Gedränge, über 600 werden verletzt. Die Opfer stammen aus Deutschland, China, Australien, Spanien, Italien und den Niederlanden. Erst mehr als sieben Jahre später, im Dezember 2017, beginnt die juristische Aufarbeitung der Katastrophe. Der Loveparade-Prozess war ein Mammut-Verfahren, das am 4. Mai 2020 nach 184 Verhandlungstagen ohne Urteil zu Ende ging. Das Landgericht Duisburg stand unter enormen Erwartungsdruck und sollte auch eine Aufarbeitung der Katastrophe leisten. Chronologisch folgt die Dokumentation dem Prozess. Was das Gericht verhandelt, verhandelt der Film – mit dem Personal, das auch im Gericht eine Rolle hat. Der Film navigiert durch die schweren Wasser von „Recht“ und „Gerechtigkeit“, ohne dabei zu moralisieren.
#Germany #Duisburg #arte #film #documentary #death #trial
▻https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/080967-000-A/loveparade-die-verhandlung
Couples Separated by Europe’s Travel Bans Fight to Be Reunited - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/europe/couples-separated-eu-travel-ban.html
She lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and her fiancé, Horst Schlereth, is in Germany. Before the coronavirus put everything on hold, Ms. Lobato had planned to go to Germany this spring to prepare for their wedding. Now their daily calls are filled with fretting over when they will reunite.
“We feel completely stuck in this situation,” she said. “I normally don’t cry in front of him, but I cry alone. It’s really a horrible feeling.” The pair are among a number of separated, unmarried couples who have rallied on social media for changes to the European Union’s travel restrictions, using the hashtag #LoveIsNotTourism and #LoveIsEssential. Unlike most married people, they do not have a right to enter the European Union to be reunited with their partners
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#sante#santementale#regroupementfamilial#couple#restrictionsanitaire
Reggae Britannia documentary
Part 1 : ▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQXyK1uxTps
Merci, je vais regarder ça si je trouve le temps, mais dans le même genre, Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980, 95 minutes) :
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIw12GCEkhA
Et d’autres trucs intéressants ici :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/773832
le doc est bien jusqu’à l’arrivée de la #police. Roxanne, cette catastrophe, sting ce baltringue, le rock qui se mélange au reggae, ça peut aussi ne pas se digérer... voilà mon opinion.
Dans le troisième épisode, un petit bout de Bank Robber par #The_Clash et , live en 1980 aux USA :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKJGYYi7HFY
Et aussi la version longue de Ghost Town de #The_Specials, avec le solo de trombone de :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXP5psBaOO8
Episode 4, le #Lovers'_Rock, je ne savais pas que ça s’appelait comme ça, et ça fait plein de chanteuses pour la liste de @mad_meg :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/451823
Avec une chanson toujours dans l’air du temps, du groupe féminin #Brown_Sugar : Black Pride
Mais aussi Pass the Dutchie de #Musical_Youth (je ne savais pas qu’ils étaient anglais !), clip réalisé par :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak93pjr2mew
Pas beaucoup de mention de la génération #Windrush ...
A mostly comprehensive guide to Cultist Simulator (warning: unmarked spoilers) : weatherfactory
▻https://www.reddit.com/r/weatherfactory/comments/8ohdsw/a_mostly_comprehensive_guide_to_cultist_simulator
meilleur guide — <a href="▻https://my.framasoft.org/u/rouge-glace/?1lruVg" ; title="Permalink">Permalink</a>
#cartes #cultistsimulator #jeux #jeuxvideo #littérature #lovecraft #steamrafou #walkthroughs
[L’Oeil Carnivore] A bord du #Love_Boat
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-oeil-carnivore/a-bord-du-love-boat
A bord du Love Boat, L’oeil carnivore part en croisière avec BXL Geek et Comics Prime.
Avec comme escale :
Le capitaine du Love Boat - ▻https://discord.gg/kHzhpwD Said, membre fondateur du collectif #Maker #Resistance_Covid - ▻https://resistancecovid.com Qu’est ce qu’on regarde ? recommandation de séries et d’évènements participatifs Comment on joue ? avec Roll20 et Tabletop
Retrouvez la vidéo et le chat du live ici : ▻https://www.twitch.tv/videos/589913362
#série #jeux_de_rôle #jeux #série,jeux_de_rôle,jeux,Resistance_Covid,Maker,Love_Boat
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/l-oeil-carnivore/a-bord-du-love-boat_08725__1.mp3
[Label Ambiance] Hello LABEL AMBIANCE
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/label-ambiance/hello-label-ambiance-6
Artist - song - label
Sheila Rickards - Jamaican Fruit of African Roots (Shella Records)
Otto - Kanapee pop (Bureau b)
The Residents - Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) (Ralph records)
Milan W - Data (Jj funhouse)
Ashra - Sunrain (Virgin)
Infinite Bisous - Brain (Tasty Morsels)
Gökçen Kaynatan - Madimak (Finders Keepers)
Accou - bel air (Syndicat des scorpions / October Tone / AB Records / Indina Redhead)
Terminal Cheesecake - Please Be Seated (Jackass)
Terminal Cheesecake - Oily Bud (Jackass)
Couteau Latex - Téléportation (Waving Hands)
Areski Belkacem - Un Beau Matin (Saravah Rééd. Le Souffle Continu)
Stephan Eicher - Hungries Afrika (Off course Records Rééd. Bornbad records)
Jlin - Enigma (Planet Mu)
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround one (PAN)
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround two (PAN)
Oiseaux de (...)
#love
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/label-ambiance/hello-label-ambiance-6_08466__1.mp3
#Palermo, nella notte cambiano i nomi alle strade: la «guerriglia odonomastica» - 1 di 1 - Palermo - la Repubblica
▻https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/06/foto/palermo_nella_notte_cambiano_i_nomi_alle_strade_la_guerriglia_odonomastica_-250456533/1
https://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/rep-palermo/2020/03/06/164336546-a6170482-f7a6-4255-af67-7ad200ee6018.jpg 
https://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/rep-palermo/2020/03/06/164336093-7788ddda-d6b1-436d-868f-64977b42a602.jpg 
https://www.repstatic.it/content/localirep/img/rep-palermo/2020/03/06/164336019-77b6a949-b3dd-4694-8cab-666b486fea8a.jpg #sicile #toponymie #colonialisme #Éthiopie #
@cdb_77 #indro_montanelli #montanelli
Labor of love – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2020/03/09/labor-love
If working in God’s Kingdom motivated by love seems vague or mysterious to you, let’s bring it down to earth a bit and put it in human terms.
[OHNE TITEL] OHNE TITEL X-PLORE #love.HATE.DEBATE
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/ohne-titel/ohne-titel-xplor-i-g-art-center
Ce dimanche nous mettons en avant une thématique récurrente de notre émission : l’appréciation des œuvres.
Pourquoi nous aimons ou détestons certaines œuvres d’art ?
Que se cache-t-il derrière cette appréciation ?
Est-elle en concordance avec le message voulu par l’artiste ?
Toutes ces questions sont soulevées durant l’exposition proposées par l’ING #art_center : Love.Hate.Debate.
Suis -nous durant cette visite et découvre comment une œuvre d’art peut susciter autant de débats
***
Love.Hate.Debate #exposition visible jusqu’au 15-03-2020
ING ART CENTER
Place Royale, 1000 Bruxelles
Entrée : 5€ - gratuit pour les clients sur présentation de leur carte (...)
#art_contemporain #debate #hate #exposition,art_contemporain,love,debate,hate,art_center
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/ohne-titel/ohne-titel-xplor-i-g-art-center_07983__1.mp3
[Label Ambiance] Hello LABEL AMBIANCE
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/label-ambiance/hello-label-ambiance-4
Artist - song - label
TNT ROOTS - Mighty In Battle 2 (Bokeh Versions)
MOON RELAY - (^)II (Hubro)
Chupame El Dedo - No Te Metas Con Satan (Souk Records)
Ventre de Biche - la vie est un long fleuve de merde (Teenage Menopause records)
Prince - 17 days (Warner)
Valentina Magaletti & Julian Sartorious – Sobaka (Marionette)
The Space Lady - Synthetise Me (NIGHT SCHOOL / Mississippi Records)
Bremer/McCoy - Hojder (Luaka Bop Records)
Lard Free - Warinobaril (Vamp Records Rééd Wah Wah Records)
Binker & Moses - How land learnt to be still (Gearbox Records)
The Raincoats - The Void (Rough Trade)
Jamie Branch - Prayer for Amerikkka pt. 1&2 (International Anthem)
Dominique Grange - Chacun de vous est concerné (Expression Spontanée)
Luc Ferrari - Tu m’écoutes (Transversales Disques) (...)
#love
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/label-ambiance/hello-label-ambiance-4_07960__1.mp3
Our confidence as Christians – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2019/11/29/our-confidence-as-christians
The first letter of John comes as a breath of fresh air to those who are trying to live for Jesus. People around us tell us so much that simply isn’t true. It seems many think if they say something often enough and loud enough that it becomes true! Let’s notice some of the truths that John gives us in the last chapter of this short letter.
L‘économie du #viol : la #prostitution en Allemagne (1/3) - 50 - 50 Magazine50 – 50 Magazine | « les péripéties de l’égalité femmes/hommes »
▻https://www.50-50magazine.fr/2019/10/09/leconomie-du-viol-la-prostitution-en-allemagne-1-3
▻https://i0.wp.com/www.50-50magazine.fr/_19/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Capture-d’écran-2019-10-09-à-10.15.44.png?fit=1470%2C824&ssl=1
Vue de France, l’Allemagne est un pays prospère, avec un taux de chômage bas, beaucoup d‘entreprises florissantes, des institutions fortes et stables. Vue de Roumanie, l’Allemagne est un pays où l‘on peut envoyer sa fille, nièce ou cousine de façon à ce qu’elle gagne de quoi faire vivre toute la famille.
« Bordel Allemagne —le business en milliards de dollars de la prostitution »
▻https://revolutionfeministe.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/loverboys-proxenetes-je-croyais-quil-maimait
Sandra Norak a été en prostitution pendant 6 ans. Alors qu’elle était encore mineure, elle a été trafiquée en prostitution par la méthode du « loverboy ». Elle travaille maintenant pour contribuer à la prise de conscience collective du système prostitutionnel et des différentes formes de trafic, en particulier la méthode loverboy et elle a parlé devant des parlements allemands et italiens sur ce sujet. Elle fait aussi un travail de prévention dans les écoles pour apprendre aux jeunes filles à identifier les #loverboys et à s’en protéger.
▻https://mylifeinprostitution.wordpress.com
source : #Christine_Delphy
▻https://christinedelphy.wordpress.com/2020/03/07/loverboys-proxenetes-je-croyais-quil-maimait
#proxénétisme #proxénètes #crime_organisé
Francine Sporenda : C’est l’inspecteur de police Helmut Sporer qui le dit : « le loverboy-proxénète est plus intelligent que le proxénète brutal qui utilise la violence physique parce que c’est bien plus difficile de prouver qu’il est un proxénète ». D’après lui, les enquêtes et les interrogatoires de police ne marchent pas, parce que la fille est présentée comme étant en prostitution parce que c’est son choix. Vous êtes d’accord avec ce point de vue d’Helmut Sporer ?
Sandra Norak : Oui, parce que, quand vous êtes dans cette situation, quand vous êtes la victime et que vous croyez que cette personne vous aime, quand vous êtes très jeune et que vous n’êtes pas consciente qu’il y a des hommes méchants qui recrutent sur internet où qui attendent à la sortie des écoles pour trouver des filles et les faire entrer dans la prostitution, vous n’avez jamais entendu parler de ça, donc vous pensez que cette personne vous aime, qu’elle est en danger, et que c’est votre responsabilité de l’aider. Vous ne vous conduisez pas comme avec un proxénète, vous vous comportez comme s’il s’agissait d’une relation. Les victimes de loverboys – et c’était le cas pour moi – n’ont pas conscience d’être une victime pendant très longtemps. En #Allemagne, c’est possible de faire condamner un proxénète sans le témoignage de la victime, si le tribunal a assez de preuves, comme des sources de surveillance de télécommunications, mais en fait les condamnations sans témoignage de la victime sont très rares.
Florence Lina Humbert : Le plus grand bordel d’Europe, le Pascha à #Cologne, Allemagne, est en faillite !
▻https://christinedelphy.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/florence-lina-humbert-le-plus-grand-bordel-deurope-le-pas
With all your mind – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2019/06/30/with-all-your-mind
How do I love God with my mind? The Lord Jesus included this as a part of what he knew to be the “greatest commandment.” Since it held such an important place in the Lord Jesus’ thoughts it ought to hold a similarly great place in ours, shouldn’t it?
Why Should You Take Note of Me? – Believing Prayer
▻http://believingprayer.com/why-should-you-take-note-of-me
Wang and I — Helping one another – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2019/04/22/helping
Wang, a Chinese woman from Nanning, was surprised when a bus seat was offered her, with smiles from everyone around her. Someone finally showed her the note taped to her back: “Please take care of this pregnant lady.”
Which are we? – Forthright Magazine
▻http://forthright.net/2019/04/06/which-are-we
I overheard a conversation in Asia. One asked about how a certain work was going to be done. The reply was, “That is not our headache. It is the contractor’s responsibility; let him take care of it.” On one level, that is not an unreasonable response. We might have better stated it, “It is not really our business, let him do the job his way.” But in the context of the conversation the attitude of the responder was basically, “I don’t care – let them handle their own problems without my help.
#LoveIt !
C’est drôle j’avais fait ça en cours de dessin en 1993 aux Beaux-Arts de Nantes, passant d’un plan large horizontal au crayon 3B à un plan très serré en vertical au crayon 3H et le prof m’avait pourri la gueule façon #gnagnagna : « le changement de plan n’était pas le sujet demandé » ! Une des très nombreuses choses qui m’ont fait décrocher...
#BD #storyboard #video #previsualisation
For The Love of #gif
▻https://hackernoon.com/for-the-love-of-gif-644b7305bf3a?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
GIF Source from Reaction GifsI was talking with a guy named Jason yesterday in the pixEOS Telegram channel and it was a weird moment when I realized we both use GIFs to express our emotions more than any other medium, even talking face-to-face with people.message with JasonHe also told me he quit all the other social media platforms, so Telegram was his remaining way of communicating with people and he said he uses GIFs A LOT. I can’t exactly recall when my own GIF addiction started, but it’s been strong for a while now. There are a number of reasons why I think GIFs are such a big part of my life and why I think they are important.Do You Speak (...)
How Russia Hacked U.S. Politics With Instagram Marketing – Foreign Policy
►https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/17/how-russia-hacked-us-politics-with-instagram-marketing
While the message itself was not aimed at swaying voters in any direction, researchers now believe it served another purpose for the Russian group: It boosted the reach of its account, likely won it new followers, and tried to establish the account’s bona fides as an authentic voice for the black community.
That advertising pitch was revealed in a report released Monday by the Senate Intelligence Committee and produced by the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge. The report provides the most comprehensive look to date at the Kremlin’s attempt to boost Trump’s candidacy and offers a surprising insight regarding that campaign: Moscow’s operatives operated much like digital marketers, making use of Instagram to reach a huge audience.
By blending marketing tactics with political messaging, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) established a formidable online presence in the run-up to the 2016 election (and later), generating 264 million total engagements—a measure of activity such as liking and sharing content—and building a media ecosystem across Facebook and Instagram.
The authors of the report believe @blackstagram__ served as a vehicle for Kremlin propaganda targeting the American black community, skillfully adopting the language of Instagram, where viral marketing schemes exist side by side with artfully arranged photographs of toast.
As Americans streamed to the polls on Nov. 8, 2016, @blackstagram__ offered its contribution to the Kremlin’s campaign to depress turnout, borrowing a line from a Michael Jackson song to tell African-Americans that their votes didn’t matter: “Think twice before you vote. All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us. #Blacktivist #hotnews.”
While the effect of the IRA’s coordinated campaign to depress voter turnout is difficult to assess, the evidence of the group’s online influence is stark. Of its 133 Instagram accounts, 12 racked up more than 100,000 followers—the typical threshold for being considered an online “influencer” in the world of digital marketing. Around 50 amassed more than 10,000 followers, making them what marketers call “micro-influencers.”
These accounts made savvy use of hashtags, built relationships with real people, promoted merchandise, and targeted niche communities. The IRA’s most popular Instagram accounts included pages devoted to veterans’ issues (@american.veterans), American Christianity (@army_of_jesus), and feminism (@feminism_tag).
In a measure of the agency’s creativity, @army_of_jesus appears to have been launched in 2015 as a meme account featuring Kermit the Frog. It then switched subjects and began exclusively posting memes related to the television show The Simpsons. By January 2016, the account had amassed a significant following and reached its final iteration with a post making extensive use of religious hashtags: ““#freedom #love #god #bible #trust #blessed #grateful.” It later posted memes comparing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to Satan.
“The Internet Research Agency operated like a digital marketing agency: develop a brand (both visual and voice), build presences on all channels across the entire social ecosystem, and grow an audience with paid ads as well as partnerships, influencers, and link-sharing,” the New Knowledge report concludes. “Instagram was perhaps the most effective platform.”
How Russia Hacked U.S. Politics With Instagram Marketing – Foreign Policy
►https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/17/how-russia-hacked-us-politics-with-instagram-marketing
The Internet Research Agency took to the photo-sharing network to boost Trump and depress voter turnout.
Donald Trump as U.S. president, Kremlin operatives running a digital interference campaign in American politics scored a viral success with a post on Instagram.
The post appeared on the account @blackstagram__, which was in fact being run by the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked troll farm that U.S. authorities say orchestrated an online campaign to boost Trump’s candidacy in 2016. It racked up 254,000 likes and nearly 7,000 comments—huge numbers for the Kremlin campaign.
But oddly, the post contained no political content.
Instead, it repurposed an ad for a women’s shoe, with a photo of women of different skin tones wearing the same strappy high heel in different colors. The caption pitched the shoes as a symbol of racial equality: “All the tones are nude! Get over it!”
While the message itself was not aimed at swaying voters in any direction, researchers now believe it served another purpose for the Russian group: It boosted the reach of its account, likely won it new followers, and tried to establish the account’s bona fides as an authentic voice for the black community.
That advertising pitch was revealed in a report released Monday by the Senate Intelligence Committee and produced by the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge. The report provides the most comprehensive look to date at the Kremlin’s attempt to boost Trump’s candidacy and offers a surprising insight regarding that campaign: Moscow’s operatives operated much like digital marketers, making use of Instagram to reach a huge audience.
By blending marketing tactics with political messaging, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) established a formidable online presence in the run-up to the 2016 election (and later), generating 264 million total engagements—a measure of activity such as liking and sharing content—and building a media ecosystem across Facebook and Instagram.
That campaign sought to bring Russian political goals into the mainstream, exacerbate and inflame divisions in American society, and blur the line between truth and fiction, New Knowledge’s report concludes.
Amid the intense discussion of Russian interference in the 2016 election, investigators probing that campaign had devoted relatively little attention to Instagram until now. But following their exposure in 2016 and early 2017, the IRA’s operatives shifted resources to Instagram, where their content often outperformed its postings on Facebook. (Instagram is owned by Facebook.)
Of the 133 Instagram accounts created by the IRA, @blackstagram__ was arguably its most successful, with more than 300,000 followers. Its June 2017 ad for the shoe, made by Kahmune, was the most widely circulated post dreamed up by the Kremlin’s operatives—from a total of some 116,000. (The shoe continues to be marketed by Kahmune. Company officials did not respond to questions from Foreign Policy.)
The authors of the report believe @blackstagram__ served as a vehicle for Kremlin propaganda targeting the American black community, skillfully adopting the language of Instagram, where viral marketing schemes exist side by side with artfully arranged photographs of toast.
As Americans streamed to the polls on Nov. 8, 2016, @blackstagram__ offered its contribution to the Kremlin’s campaign to depress turnout, borrowing a line from a Michael Jackson song to tell African-Americans that their votes didn’t matter: “Think twice before you vote. All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us. #Blacktivist #hotnews._”
Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators have secured indictments against the Internet Research Agency’s owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and a dozen of its employees.
While the effect of the IRA’s coordinated campaign to depress voter turnout is difficult to assess, the evidence of the group’s online influence is stark. Of its 133 Instagram accounts, 12 racked up more than 100,000 followers—the typical threshold for being considered an online “_influencer” in the world of digital marketing. Around 50 amassed more than 10,000 followers, making them what marketers call “micro-influencers.”
These accounts made savvy use of hashtags, built relationships with real people, promoted merchandise, and targeted niche communities. The IRA’s most popular Instagram accounts included pages devoted to veterans’ issues (@american.veterans), American Christianity (@army_of_jesus), and feminism (@feminism_tag).
In a measure of the agency’s creativity, @army_of_jesus appears to have been launched in 2015 as a meme account featuring Kermit the Frog. It then switched subjects and began exclusively posting memes related to the television show The Simpsons. By January 2016, the account had amassed a significant following and reached its final iteration with a post making extensive use of religious hashtags: “#freedom #love #god #bible #trust #blessed #grateful. ” It later posted memes comparing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to Satan.
“The Internet Research Agency operated like a digital marketing agency: develop a brand (both visual and voice), build presences on all channels across the entire social ecosystem, and grow an audience with paid ads as well as partnerships, influencers, and link-sharing,” the New Knowledge report concludes. “Instagram was perhaps the most effective platform.”
Monday’s report, which was published alongside another by researchers at the University of Oxford and the network analysis firm Graphika, is likely to increase scrutiny of social media platforms. The New Knowledge report accuses technology firms of possibly misleading Congress and says companies have not been sufficiently transparent in providing data related to the Russian campaign.
Les deux rapports (pdf)
New Knowledge
The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency
▻https://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinformation-report/NewKnowledge-Disinformation-Report-Whitepaper.pdf
University of Oxford and Graphika
Computational Propaganda Research Project
The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018
▻https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2018/12/IRA-Report-2018.pdf
C’est une impression ou bien ces nombres de followers sont ridiculement faibles, par rapport à la prétention affichée de faire basculer la présidentielle américaine ?
reprise par le Guardian
But two new analyses of the Russian online propaganda campaign by the Internet Research Agency reveal that this view of Instagram was as rose-colored as, well, an artistically filtered Instagram post.
“Instagram was perhaps the most effective platform for the Internet Research Agency,” states the report by New Knowledge, an American cybersecurity firm which analyzed data sets from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
During the period studied by the report’s authors, IRA posts on Instagram garnered more than twice as many engagements (such as likes or comments) as IRA posts on Facebook – 187m on Instagram vs 77m on Facebook – despite the fact that Facebook offers many more ways for users to interact with content, and Instagram has no native “sharing” button to promote virality.
Grounded in San Francisco; a story about knee surgeries and more
▻https://hackernoon.com/grounded-in-san-francisco-a-story-about-knee-surgeries-and-more-f3d96af1
September 23, 2018“This is it. I’m going to die”. That’s the last thought I had before I crashed.I’m cycling in Dolores Park for the first time in years (I’m more of a runner, and Classpass studio lover), and in a few seconds, I find myself in a predicament: a car is coming behind me, and I’m stuck between the trolley tracks. What to do; Option A: get run over by the car behind me, Option B: I try to cross the tracks with my bike.I try to do the latter. And that’s when it happened. The 80 pound electric JUMP bike catapulted me out of my seat and into the air and I smashed onto the ground while it fell on top of me — crushing my right rib, and my left knee so badly cartilage was exposed.Holy shit, I screamed. The pain was unbearable. I grabbed my knee, wishing I could reverse the last few minutes. (...)