"Within 3 days of the start of the conflict, Iran, Israel, and the Gulf States moved quickly to impose an information blackout. Iran and Israel quickly prevented the posting of strikes on their territory. While the UAE and Qatar threatened people with heavy fines if they posted strike footage."---this is the part of the conflict that feels the least modern actually, this playbook was followed by even democratic states in the conflicts of the last century, one just have to think about how the combatants of WWI censored their media.
Oh my god I can't believe I read this so late into my writing! I literally just finished an article about the Cesspool that is X, and the Iran War shows us the scale of it.
While I will resist the shameless self promotion, I do dig these four things you teach me.
1. Ease of fabrication has inverted informational power.
2. Quantity and velocity, not just content, can be weaponized.
3. Cognitive exhaustion replaces persuasion as the modern objective.
4. Control of platforms equals control of perception equals power.
this article is solid work. Now, I need to get back to my draft and I must tweak it. ha!
Good observation, especially point 6. Platform Imperialism is a phenomenon that people, even Marxist-Leninist and/or critical theory aligning one seldom highlights. It is as if Platforms are neutral entity that doesn't have their own (geopolitical) interest.
On that note, and very related one, is Language as a dimension or media in and of itself. By which I mean all of your points (not to dismiss them) mostly, if not practically, contained within English-sphere itself. All of information and cognitive warfare being waged here will mostly affect English-sphere until similar operation conducted on other language. In the current context, this disproportionately affects US the most as they (unwittingly) become the victim of their cognitive warfare.
In our superflously English-dominated world—especially with Platform Imperialism by English-sphere— we tend take the English-sphere for granted. As if it is THE world, if not THE ONLY world. However this is not true. Not matter how much English dominates the world through digital platforms, the real world is still governed by their respective language. Even when many Elites of the world fluent in English, there's limitation on how digitally-mediated English can affect the real world. Simply to say, English cognitive hazard will be dangerous (especially dangerous) for English speaking people (English Monolingual NGMI).
This is why Xi Jinping and Putin rarely, if ever, speaks English in public.
I think this is a topic worth touching on. Especially the platform imperialism piece. If we think about it from seizing the means of production in the data and social media era? The platform is the means and data is the production.
That said, I do agree that language sovereignty of platforms used is important. Since it allows a certain level of cultural and political cohesion with good moderation and ownership by the owners.
That said, it does not diminish the underlying dynamics of social media. Observations 1 to 4 were made with other nations speaking their languages in mind. I’ve seen this on Chinese and Japanese social media. Including platforms that are not owned by the US tech industry. Cost of manufacturing deepfakes, and Velocity and variety especially remain a challenge in info war. And require constant and endless tweaks to the rec systems algo and automated moderation.
I do think platforms are going to slowly move towards combating this contagion, whether in China or the US.
"Within 3 days of the start of the conflict, Iran, Israel, and the Gulf States moved quickly to impose an information blackout. Iran and Israel quickly prevented the posting of strikes on their territory. While the UAE and Qatar threatened people with heavy fines if they posted strike footage."---this is the part of the conflict that feels the least modern actually, this playbook was followed by even democratic states in the conflicts of the last century, one just have to think about how the combatants of WWI censored their media.
Information war has become a whole front in itself and our leaders do little or nothing about it.
Oh my god I can't believe I read this so late into my writing! I literally just finished an article about the Cesspool that is X, and the Iran War shows us the scale of it.
While I will resist the shameless self promotion, I do dig these four things you teach me.
1. Ease of fabrication has inverted informational power.
2. Quantity and velocity, not just content, can be weaponized.
3. Cognitive exhaustion replaces persuasion as the modern objective.
4. Control of platforms equals control of perception equals power.
this article is solid work. Now, I need to get back to my draft and I must tweak it. ha!
Good observation, especially point 6. Platform Imperialism is a phenomenon that people, even Marxist-Leninist and/or critical theory aligning one seldom highlights. It is as if Platforms are neutral entity that doesn't have their own (geopolitical) interest.
On that note, and very related one, is Language as a dimension or media in and of itself. By which I mean all of your points (not to dismiss them) mostly, if not practically, contained within English-sphere itself. All of information and cognitive warfare being waged here will mostly affect English-sphere until similar operation conducted on other language. In the current context, this disproportionately affects US the most as they (unwittingly) become the victim of their cognitive warfare.
In our superflously English-dominated world—especially with Platform Imperialism by English-sphere— we tend take the English-sphere for granted. As if it is THE world, if not THE ONLY world. However this is not true. Not matter how much English dominates the world through digital platforms, the real world is still governed by their respective language. Even when many Elites of the world fluent in English, there's limitation on how digitally-mediated English can affect the real world. Simply to say, English cognitive hazard will be dangerous (especially dangerous) for English speaking people (English Monolingual NGMI).
This is why Xi Jinping and Putin rarely, if ever, speaks English in public.
I think this is a topic worth touching on. Especially the platform imperialism piece. If we think about it from seizing the means of production in the data and social media era? The platform is the means and data is the production.
That said, I do agree that language sovereignty of platforms used is important. Since it allows a certain level of cultural and political cohesion with good moderation and ownership by the owners.
That said, it does not diminish the underlying dynamics of social media. Observations 1 to 4 were made with other nations speaking their languages in mind. I’ve seen this on Chinese and Japanese social media. Including platforms that are not owned by the US tech industry. Cost of manufacturing deepfakes, and Velocity and variety especially remain a challenge in info war. And require constant and endless tweaks to the rec systems algo and automated moderation.
I do think platforms are going to slowly move towards combating this contagion, whether in China or the US.
Our information is controlled. They only show us what they want us to see.