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"If Buttar were a Russian troll, the #PelosiMustGo triumph might have earned him a promotion: Americans were yet again feuding on social media.
"But Buttar is very much an American, and so were the overwhelming majority of the online activists whom he exhorted to join his campaign.
"Although it is tempting to believe that foreign bogeymen are sowing discord, the reality is far simpler and more tragic:
"[W]e have a very old word for persuasive communication with an agenda: propaganda. That term, however, comes with historical baggage. It presumes that governments, authority figures, institutions, and mass media are forcing ideas on regular people from the top down.
"But more and more, the opposite is happening. Far from being merely a target, the public has become an active participant in creating and selectively amplifying narratives that shape realities.
"Perhaps the best word for this emergent bottom-up dynamic is one that doesn’t exist quite yet: ampliganda, the shaping of perception through amplification."
[I am not a fan of this term. I'm eager to find something catchier that accomplishes the same thing.]
[I am not a fan of this term. I'm eager to find something catchier that accomplishes the same thing.]
🚨 ALERT! Someone wrote a very competent piece of analysis and did not unpack a VERY PARTICULAR NUANCE that I find interesting...ON THE INTERNET! Get in losers, we're doing Latin - a 🧵
Okay! So in this piece, @noUpside - technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, and who investigates how narratives disperse across Al Gore's Internet - writes about how the structure of the internet lends itself to propaganda, yes, but also to something else 1/*
She says, yes, there's propaganda and there's also the noise and misinformation and general agita that all of us spread all the time, amplifying various dumb things - what if we called that "ampliganda"? 2/* 
Really @SpeakerPelosi is a foolish spoiled hypocrite and she looks like a total Liar about Covid and about the negotiations HER DAYS IN CONGRESS ARE NUMBERED 80 yrs old WE THE PEOPLE CALL FOR TERM LIMITS! #LiberalPrivilege
Amazing how STUPID SHE LOOKED TRYING TO BS THE PEOPLE W/Her STATEMENT SHE IS BECOMING FAST THE MOST HATED WOMAN #NancyAntoinette #PelosiMustGo #PelosiJokeOfTheWoke
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#PelosiMustGo trended for several hours yesterday (September 1st, 2020). We downloaded recent tweets containing the hashtag as of ~8 PM PDT, yielding 44274 tweets from 26160 accounts. Very little of the traffic looks automated.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
Yesterday's #PelosiMustGo trend appears to be inspired by surveillance video released by Fox News of Nancy Pelosi at a hair salon. This is, however, not the first time this hashtag has gotten traction.
#PelosiMustGo first achieved noticeable volume Feb 4 2020, thanks to #MAGA accounts outraged at Pelosi's destruction of her copy of Trump's SOTU speech. The hashtag first trended in July, due to a mix of #MAGA accounts and supporters of Pelosi's Dem challenger, @ShahidForChange.
Pelosi is not on the left
There's no "we" here. Fuck off.
Pelosi and biden, etc. are miles closer to trump's ideology than they are to mine. I was willing to settle for bernie, who's just about right in between, but noooooo that would be a violation of your soft right "centrist" purity test. Fuck you.
