What makes false information so effective?

 

What makes false information so effective?

The reason what boosts the effectiveness of fake information is that data is delivered to the audience, which has certain attitudes for that kind of thing. So the "will to believe" makes the information effectively and that kind of thing are shared very easily. This makes social media so effective tool for sharing the faked information. 

If there are many supporters for some information, that would increase the trust for the information. The people, who are following their leader in this kind of case are very aggressive, which would deny the will to resist or fix the errors in the faked news. 

We are facing the situation, that the people who would not able to see or make large-scale things have the same chance to get the same sized audience with some other more well-known people. And the thing is that the trollers would choose their social media mates by choosing well-known people, and they hope to get very much contacts by using those people as the "gate". 

Centers for social networks can be used as a tool in information operation

There is a game on the internet, which is known as the "Kevin Bacon" game (the Oracle of bacon (theoracleofbacon.com) (1). That game is created as the tool for mapping how many connections the actors have in Hollywood between each other by their movies. That game calculates, how many people are between two actors, and similar data can be collected from the politicians or rock stars. 

And if some social media user has the president of some nation in their social media network, that allows getting very effective and followed persons as the fellows in social media. That game can be used for the base to create the algorithm, which calculates the number of social media mates. Those people, who are acting as the centers in their social network are good targets for the information operators or propagandists, who would want to ask those people to the fellows in their social network, and then that operator could start to deliver faked data to that network. 

That's why people like Rock Stars are really good fellows for the net trollers. The audience chooses fellows, what have the same style opinions, what they have, and this would give sharing that kind of operation very big effect. And if other trollers would put more similar cases to that information flow, that thing increases extending the power of information. 

What would vaccinate people against information operations? Should people just learn to ask "why"?

The thing that would give a great chance to resist the faked information is education. The educated person would not so easily follow their leaders and the first step for the criticism is the skills to get information from the sources, which are proven as trustable. And the second thing is to find out, how to use our brains. 

If we always are following every word, what our leaders would tell, that thing makes us blind robots. And that is the reason, why we must practice our way to think about what is behind some words. Why somebody attacks against some minorities and that kind of thing? Why some people want to isolate people, who are different than they are to the ghettos. Is there some reason for that kind of thing? And if some people are trained in universities, are the only persons, whose education doesn't mean a thing?

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https://oracleofbacon.org/

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The "war against terrorism" and when impossible turn to reality

The "war against terrorism" and when impossible turn to reality

The problem with modeling the real world by using mathematics is that creating formulas, which allows making the calculations what are creating series, where is probably millions of different calculations possible. When we are thinking the behavior of the gas molecules, and try to make formulas, what is calculating the probability of the mankind behavior we are close to creating the psychohistory. The method of predicting the future is to compare the things, what happened in the past to the things, what is happening now.

And if we are planning to predict wars or something like that by comparing the behavior of the people before the past wars to the things, what is happening now we are facing thing, what is known as "Black Swan". This means phenomenon, what is extremely unusual but possible. That thing caused that Saddam Hussein underestimated the US military will or political support for the attack to Iraq.

The reason, what changed the public opinion was the terror strike against the USA by using highjacked aircraft. That caused the death of the thousands of American citizens and the authorization to attack Iraq and Afghanistan was given from the highest positions from the government. The attack against WTC tower is one part of the tragedy, which is known as the "war against terrorism". The thing is that the attack in 11.9.2001 caused the most unpopular president in the history of the United States of America got the second period and that thing was full of war and bombing.

The thing that the tough touch like missile strikes against the terrorist targets was justified, and after that day even the nuclear strikes against those targets would be allowed. That attack caused that even the nations, what was against the USA supported the military actions is one thing, what brings one thing in the mind, and that is that Osama bin Laden made damages only for his ideology. The thing in terrorism is that it has been covered in some mountains before the high-profile attacks against the western world.

The war against terrorism is a very good example, how one unexpected thing cut the road, what was predicted. The reason, why Saddam Hussein was involved in the conflict is that he broke the human rights openly, and then gave support for that attack. There are things in international politics what are not tolerated. And one thing is to support terrorists. Libyan leader Quaddafi was another person, who miscalculated the tolerance of the international community.

There is no proof about the things, what is claimed the next part of the text. The rumors about living Quaddaffi might be released for psychological warfare, but the evidence, what is given about this case is the body, what lay on the dirty mattress, and in the pictures were no bullet holes. But as I have written the delivering that kind of information is meant for the make enemies scary, because that man might be interrogated by using chemicals like LSD and sodium Amytal. We all know that Quaddaffi had many secrets, what many people want to forget.

There was something suspicious about the claiming that NATO was given prisoners for Libyan secret police for interrogations. And there are rumors, that Quaddaffi might be alive. The rumors base the idea, that Quaddaffi was injected with tetrodotoxin and that chemical agent made that man "zombie", and made him look like dead.

And there are rumors, that he would be kept in some secret place. But the net is full of rumors, and there were a very little number of people, who would cry for Quaddaffi, but one of those persons might be the United Nations investigator, who would try to use Quaddaffi for getting information about the relationship between Libya and NATO. But if that person would be dead, those secrets would go to the grave with him. And there is no evidence that the Quaddaffi is living.