Agreed. It's about the messengers, audience, and tools of distribution. I think we underestimate the power of the Firehose of Falsehood and targeted ads on social, specifically TikTok and X.
40% of adults get their news from influencers or social. This is more likely among young people, those making under 50k, and w/o a college degree. We…
Agreed. It's about the messengers, audience, and tools of distribution. I think we underestimate the power of the Firehose of Falsehood and targeted ads on social, specifically TikTok and X.
40% of adults get their news from influencers or social. This is more likely among young people, those making under 50k, and w/o a college degree. We know Russia was paying some influencers. TikTok is flooded with AI fakes spouting off falsehoods. These get posted and reposted between X and TT bot accounts that hit some niche. Then your friends show you different deep fake pro Trump accounts.
I live in LA and a friend in my apartment complex..he is a non college educated successful entrepreneur. He said he voted Obama, Hillary, Biden, then Trump because illegal immigrants were getting $1800 stimulus checks after claiming asylum. He showed me a series of deep fake AI posts and didn't believe it was fake. How do you message effectively against that? That's rhetorical, I'm just ranting. Thanks for commenting on my post!
Agreed. It's about the messengers, audience, and tools of distribution. I think we underestimate the power of the Firehose of Falsehood and targeted ads on social, specifically TikTok and X.
40% of adults get their news from influencers or social. This is more likely among young people, those making under 50k, and w/o a college degree. We know Russia was paying some influencers. TikTok is flooded with AI fakes spouting off falsehoods. These get posted and reposted between X and TT bot accounts that hit some niche. Then your friends show you different deep fake pro Trump accounts.
I live in LA and a friend in my apartment complex..he is a non college educated successful entrepreneur. He said he voted Obama, Hillary, Biden, then Trump because illegal immigrants were getting $1800 stimulus checks after claiming asylum. He showed me a series of deep fake AI posts and didn't believe it was fake. How do you message effectively against that? That's rhetorical, I'm just ranting. Thanks for commenting on my post!