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What you think doesn't matter if you don't know how to #think

If someone can say something to you and inspire an emotional response that overrides or alters your ability to reason you can be #controlled and #manipulated

Practice #mindfulness, watch videos on manipulation such as the Reid technique (used by police) and most of all, think for yourself, think about your thoughts.

Zombie Apocalypse?

Had this happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie scenario – people seeming numbed, dazed, their #attention captured and #manipulated by the contents of tiny devices controlled by powerful corporations, a billion Manchurian candidates in a wifi-equipped Metropolis. A Night of the Living Dead to You. But it’s happened so incrementally it’s become normal.

theguardian.com/society/2024/n

The Guardian · Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected worldBy Rebecca Solnit
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While #X *eventually* added labels beneath the video indicating the #content had been #manipulated, multiple versions of the clip remain online. In all, posts featuring the video garnered at least 5M views….

In a political environment awash w/ false claims, including sophisticated #faked videos of prominent figures, the hoax was unusual in that it appeared to draw on open-source research to crudely steal the identity of someone who had a tenuous historical connection to a candidate….

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#Trump shared a #manipulated online image of #BillGates in an orange jumpsuit & called for #BarackObama to face a “military tribunal.” He promoted explicit tributes to the #QAnon #ConspiracyTheory. He hawked digital trading cards in an online #infomercial along w/pieces of his debate night suit (“People are calling it the knockout suit”). His campaign feuded publicly w #ArlingtonNationalCemetery.…

And that was just in the span of 24hrs.

#weird #insane #Nonsense

#CommonSense
#HarrisWalz2024

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It's also the height of #privilege and #entitlement, that you don't have to care about your #trans compatriots, you don't have to care about the #climate, that you don't have to care about #women and their right to control their own body, etc. You're going to assert your single issue, to the exclusion of all other issues, and even go backwards on that one issue

Why?

Because your #emotions are #manipulated. Right here on #Fediverse by #troll farm. #Trollfarms are here, working you over

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The company said Friday that it will apply “#MadeWithAI” labels to a range of video, audio & images. Meta’s previous policies against #manipulated #media, which were written in 2020 before the #tech industry’s #AI boom, only applied to video content.

The expansion follows criticism from #Meta’s #Oversight Board, which called the company’s existing policies “incoherent” in Feb after an altered video of President #Biden remained on #Facebook because it didn’t violate Meta’s rules.