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E Rosalie
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@erosalie@infosec.exchange | Disasters & disinformation (public health + nat sec) @ Johns Hopkins | Tracking disinfo in πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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Guy: tHe wOkE mOb wAnTz to deStRoY me! Advertisers shouldn't be afraid. Same guy: I know--I will let ISIS and the Klan back in, and that will fix everything.
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I know that the data show this over and over, and not just on Twitter, but I also know a lot of conservatives swear it's the other way. Their perception that they are censored and where that comes from is not a total accident.
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Elon claims it's "objectively the case" that Twitter affected β€œconservativeβ€? candidates more negatively than β€œprogressiveβ€? candidates. But every empirical study ever done - including by Twitter itself! - shows the opposite. Musk is a conspiracy theorist. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn
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Quick question: Who asked you to leave? We just want to talk to them.
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β€œExcuse me sir, no dogs allowed in the storeβ€? β€œYes, but he’s a guide dog who are allowed by lawβ€? β€œI understand sir but it’s still a dog and we don’t allow dogs in here. I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leaveβ€? Sigh
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A yellow lab retriever guide dog sitting down wearing its guide dog harness looking at the camera. People are walking by in the background on a busy high street
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πŸ“ŒQuick note: No, I'm not an alarmist. I'm in public health; this is what we do. Thinking of the worst-case scenario and making sure it doesn't happen while also preparing in case it does --that's our jam. The public can handle and has a right to information that concerns them.
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Extremist researchers, law enforcement, community leaders, legal experts, and media, please prepare a worst-case scenario with QAnon being re-platformed. Do not underestimate the potential threat. Some groups consume content straight from foreign states and conspiracy theorists.
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The US should amplify the voices being suppressed and invest more in new methods for circumventing state censorship. Do this for Russia and China. What? We have Sputnik radio in the midwest, while Russia, China ban US journalists, and we're supposed to act like we are helpless?
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Russian authorities have developed a sophisticated system to suppress any reporting of protests by journalists and independent monitors, according to a new report released by Amnesty International. abcnews.go.com/International/
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We see the same themes and stories across decades and even centuries. We know susceptibility may increase in times of crisis. We know people resist disinfo better when they understand manipulation tactics. Knowing this, but doing nothing preemptively is negligence.
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Just as we now talk to all women about postpartum depression long before it could happen, we need to tell people how uncertainty affects them. The woman who experiences postpartum depression and learns of it ahead of time can recognize something may be wrong.
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We aren't teaching people what to expect mentally across their lifetime. Conspiracy theories can feel real and not be. They are like a cognitive illusion. It is like seeing the spinning bird in a cage and not understanding that what you see is not real.
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Fundamentally, I see this as a public health problem. People are not adequately educated about the mental changes experienced in crises that make them more susceptible to distortions and disinformation. They aren't taught about tactics bad actors use to draw us in.
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And again, we don't have time like with other movements where people are radicalized over time. 2/3 of the people on January 6th radicalized in under a year.
Radicalization happened much faster than with other groups | START PIRUS Report
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QAnon adherents at the Capitol on Jan 6 were more likely to have children, to be married, and to have a criminal record. Either way, most of the Qanon adherents who break the law have kids.
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I can't put a price on the experience of the people in these quotes but they likely find that QAnon has been very costly.
https://novelscience.substack.com/p/traits-of-arrested-qanon-followers
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Declines in the ability to parent, divorce (I've seen cases where a spouse had to move out for safety), and child endangerment all incur a cost on society. Some of those costs play out over the lifetime.
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The social costs must be studied, but most researchers could tell you about families that have paid a steep price even with a Qanon adherent who is nonviolent.
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Here's another. Over 690,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations could have been prevented by vaccination between June to November 2021, costing about 13.8 billion.
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There are so many consequences of conspiracy beliefs that go uncounted and so are not considered. An example that should outline the damage a conspiracy theory can do involves the US. No one counted the cost of the lives lost in the attached example.
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6/ The narrative claimed the US was studying biological warfare for use in Cuba by experimenting on Pakistan's people. We were actually establishing a state of the art malaria research facility that would have prevented thousands of deaths and injuries. nytimes.com/1982/02/10/wor
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QAnon is a threat on its own, but the risk of outside manipulation may be greater than before. QAnon appears to radicalize people faster than other ideologies, and it also appears to increase the likelihood of violence more than other conspiracy theories.
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Kunzelman M. Report: Conspiracy theorists fuel bump in extremist killings. In: Associated Press [Internet]. 15 Feb 2022 [cited 14 May 2022]. Available: apnews.com/article/conspi
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Extremist researchers, law enforcement, community leaders, legal experts, and media, please prepare a worst-case scenario with QAnon being re-platformed. Do not underestimate the potential threat. Some groups consume content straight from foreign states and conspiracy theorists.
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Defending free speech, which requires responsibility and temperance, isn't the same as whining you can't say ugly things without consequence. Defending free speech means ensuring everyone can use their voice. The other seeks to monopolize convos and intimidate other perspectives.
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A fella with gauged ears. I can't handle how detailed these are πŸ˜‚ #NAFO
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Thank you @WaltStevenson11 Hahah I love it the earrings tattoos and mma gloves! Spot On! twitter.com/WaltStevenson1…
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Is anyone tracking the size, instance, and motivation behind recent protests in China? I have the general impression that they are increasing in frequency and boldness (sometimes including the destruction of property) but want to see if that's accurate.
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A Montana man who was among the first people to illegally enter the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election has been sentenced to just over three years in federal prison.
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Montana man gets 3 years in prison for role in Capitol riot
HELENA, Mont. (AP) β€” A Montana man who was among the first people to illegally enter the U.S. Capitol while Congress was certifying President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election has been...
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