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Understanding The Weaponization Of Social Media with “LikeWar” @ Hilly Reviews

The Weaponization Of Social Media with “LikeWar”: I recently delved into a project exploring the intricate realm of "Social Media's Weaponization". In the pursuit of my research, I immersed myself in the pages of "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media" penned by Emerson T. Brooking and P. W. Singer. This captivating literary work stands as a cornerstone in its examination of this dynamic and multifaceted domain. Throughout my perusal, I unearthed a plethora of insights ripe for integration into my own endeavors. The tome meticulously dissects its subject matter, offering a wealth of perspectives bound to broaden the intellectual horizons of its audience.

"LikeWar" traces the evolutionary trajectory of social media, tracing its inception as a mere communication tool to its current incarnation as a stage for myriad conflicts. Brooking and Singer meticulously illustrate the impact of digital narratives on politics and society through real-life instances, ranging from ISIS recruitment efforts to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

[hellsimulation]

“I am not going to spend more than $50 at the local book store” - me lying

[princesssarcastia]

listen to me. are you listening? tiktok is not uniquely anything when it comes to the internet. it is a tool and a platform like any other, used by all kinds of people—by nearly every kind of person or entity to whom it is available, in fact! and while what the u.s. government is doing right now to force the ownership of the company to change hands is bad and happening for the wrong reasons, to put it mildly—

claiming that the u.s. establishment is interested in shutting down tiktok because its been sooooo good and revolutionary for progressive/left-wing organizing is uhh. horse shit. that's not true. everyone uses tiktok. you, statistically, probably use tiktok. so do some of the congresspeople endorsing legislation that might end in tiktok being banned. so do right-wing influencers and terfs and trad-wives. just like everyone uses every other social media site.

don't fall into that trap of thinking that just because you and the people in your circle use this tool for good, that this tool is only used for good. it is actually just a tool for everyone!

here's an excerpt from a book called, The Wires of War, by Jacob Helberg which, if you're interested in why the u.s. congress is actually pulling this shit with tiktok, is a great read. this excerpt follows a section where Helberg described the role social media played in the Arab Spring in 2011. emphasis mine.

It would be several years before the 2016 election awakened the West to the ways in which the Internet could exploit the vulnerabilities of their societies. But for the autocrats in Bejing, Moscow, and Tehran, the Arab Spring was a technological awakening of their own. Seeing other repressive governments around the world crumble, illiberal regimes in Russia and China accelerated their treatment of the information space as a domain of war. "Tech-illiterate bureaucrats were replaced by a new generation of enforcers who understood the internet almost as well as the protesters," write Singer and Brooking in their book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. "In truth, democratic activists had no special claim to the internet. They'd simply gotten there first. "

[scholarlysoldier]

The best time of year is finally here bringing all of its pretty Fall colours and spookiness with it, so I may as well share the last of my summer reading. This haul includes everything from August to the end of September. Over that time I read the following: 1. Men at Arms by Steven Pressfield (2021) 2. Steel my Soldier’s Hearts by Col David Hackworth (2002) 3. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephane Crane (1895) 4. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by Emerson T. Brooking and P. W. Singer (2018) 5. Beartown by Fredrik Backman (2016) 6. The Fighting Canadians by David Bercuson (2008) 7. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940) 8. Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker (2017) 9. The Great Mortality by John Kelly (2005) 10. Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell (2012) 11. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2011) 12. Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920) 13. The Obstacle is the War by Ryan Holiday (2014) #bookstagram #augustreads #septemberreads #fallreads #2021readingchallenge #menatarms #stevenpressfield #steelmysoldiershearts #davidhackworth #theredbadgeofcourage #stephancrane #likewar #emersonbooking #pwsinger #beartown #fredrickbackman #thefightingcanadians #forwhomthebelltolls #earnesthemingway #whywesleep #mathewwalker #thegreatmortality #johnkelly #outlawplatoon #seanparnell #thesongofachilles #madelinemiller #stormofsteel #theobstacleistheway #ryanholiday (at Village of Port Williams) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvpIMhJJmHsk1i-rEKkTva-8BV7Fr-7wOJ52A0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hqaddomi]

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[oysters-aint-for-me]

i am reading this fucking mind blowing book for my digital war class called LikeWar (by p. w. singer and emerson t. booking). it’s about information warfare, disinformation, and how the internet has fundamentally changed the way nations relate to themselves and each other particularly in the political/war realm. it explains everything so clearly and provides so many examples of some truly sickening things that have happened, many of which i remembered happening, but to see everything put together is astounding. so much of the stuff i remembered, i realized i had sort of softened with hindsight-skepticism, like “that can’t have been what happened, there had to have been more to the story than that, that’s too cartoonishly evil or sci-fi.” but no. a bunch of computer nerds working from home really did use openly available information from social media to figure out with definitive proof that r***** had shot down that plane over u******. the t**** campaign was intelligently designed, coordinated, and centered on psychological manipulation informed by the mining of deeply private data from social media. i*is did poll their twitter followers on how they should kill a prisoner. several times! fake social justice tumblr accounts were run by an army of catfish (?) in an efficient, r****** government sponsored disinformation campaign to influence the 2016 u.s. election. and now i’m so so paranoid about the internet that i’m afraid to even type those names out!!! lol. but honestly honestly i want everyone to read this book if they are able. it feels as important to the present state of our nation as The New Jim Crow (by michelle alexander, which btw PLEASE read it if you haven’t already).

but it’s also weirdly comforting to read about all of this in such a clear way. like it’s untying this knot of anxiety in my brain and even though the resulting string is still made of anxiety, it’s still better to see it untied. like okay. other people see this too. this isn’t crazy. this isn’t a bunch of strings all jumbled together like i was starting to think. it’s just one string, and it is still terrifying but it feels more manageable, solely because i can wrap my head around it a little better.

[euteh]

LikeWars: How business leaders can prepare for this growing threat

LikeWars: How business leaders can prepare for this growing threat

Authors of the book LikeWar detail how social media can be weaponized. Read the questions they recommend business leaders ask and answer in preparation for a LikeWar.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto

In their book LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, political…

[subaruthegamer]

I was tagged by @shhhushhh - aw, thanks for thinking of me!

Rules: Always post the rules. Tag 11 new people you’d like to know better

1. Dogs or Cats?

I was more the doggo person - huskies are my favourite even though they shed so much XD

2. YouTube celebrities or normal celebrities?

Depends on who, but for the most part, YT.

3. If you could live in anywhere were would that be?

I’m already here in East Lansing XD

4. Disney or DreamWorks?

Dreamworks - I watched HTTYD a lot.

5. Favourite childhood TV show?

What’s childhood?

6. The movie you’re looking forward to most in 2020?

I was more the TV show kinda guy, if I was honest with you.

7. Favourite book you read in 2019?

LikeWar, the weaponisation of social media as it was.

8. Marvel or DC?

Marvel when it comes to movies, DC when it comes to TV

9. If you choose Marvel favourite member of the X-Men? If you choose DC favourite Justice League member? 

Green Arrow, even though I know that show is ending after this television year.

10. Night or Day?

In between.

11. Favorite Pokémon?

Uh, nope. Sorry!

12. Top 5 bands:

Ditto. 

13. Top 10 books:

Ditto. I hardly read that many books a year.

14. Top 4 movies:

Ditto. Same goes, TV shows are more my thing XD

15. America or Europe?

America - because you can find an SVX easier XD

16. Tumblr or Twitter?

Tumblr, despite the fact that they’re a little unknown on their own policies.

17. Pro choice or Pro life?

Choice - namely because it’s really the decision of the mother, we can only say what we think.

18. Favourite YouTuber:

K’eyush the Stunt Dog XD

19. Favourite author?

Jeremy Clarkson XD

20. Tea or coffee?

Tea - namely because I’m mildly allergic to some dairy.

21. OTP?

Me and an SVX? I don’t even...

22. Do you play an instrument/sing?

I used to play the trombone, but I actually prefer singing XD

So, let’s see... @lotusplum, @chomtee, @venusprincess-ts3, @kevinvoncrastenburg, @ohsosims, @walkingdeafwhat, @sin-simma, @hopelessimmer, @leitelover, @doka-chan, and the 11th can be anyone else :)

[azspot]

Beyond recapping the news, “LikeWar” becomes a compelling read as Brookings and Singer give historical context to today’s news to demystify the Internet as a battlefield. The authors liken the stunning capture of Mosul, Iraq, which the Islamic State publicized far outside the Middle East by bombarding social media, to the unyielding tempo of the German blitzkrieg, which paralyzed French fighters with a relentless broadcast of its attacks. Today’s “sockpuppets,” young Russians who masquerade online as Americans, prove to be nothing more than hipster updates to Cold War tactics deployed by the Soviet Union that targeted the extremes of American politics. The contemporary Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov, who in 2013 published a treatise ranking nonmilitary means above traditional weapons, is, in the authors’ telling, just a fresh take on the early-19th-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Just as Clausewitz established war as politics by other means, Gerasimov laid out a radical new approach to conflict by taking advantage of the Internet as the ultimate disinformation weapon.

These historical references are where “LikeWar” will succeed best in educating an older, less digitally literate generation about how the Internet shapes modern warfare. In this way, the Internet will no longer appear a brave new world unfamiliar to baby boomers but another iteration of the same old conflicts.

But if Clausewitz crops up as a motif that grounds the book in staid military doctrine, references to pop stars and reality television celebrities keep the text out of the realm of the typical think tank fare. It may seem a cheap bid for younger readers at first, but the authors draw smart and eerie parallels between terrorist groups and seemingly vapid celebrities. Even Vladi­mir Putin’s longtime media adviser admires the social media savvy of Kim Kardashian, who can direct millions of her supporters without the KGB.

[thecyberwire]

Special Edition — Peter W. Singer author of LikeWar

In this CyberWire special edition, an extended version of our conversation from earlier this year with Peter W. Singer. We spoke not long after the publication of his book, Like War - the Weaponization of Social Media.

Thanks to our special edition sponsors, McAfee.

Check out this episode!

[made-up-names]

Tag Game

It’s a little different, but we’re rolling with it.

Tagged by: @oopstheregoesthatlifeofmine (thanks for the tag!)

Rules: Tag 20 followers you would like to get to know better

Nicknames: Kate and Pipsqueak

Gender: Female

Astrological Sign: Taurus

Height: 4’11”

Sexuality: Bi

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw

Number of blankets: All of them? Winters where I live are pretty bad soooooo

Dream trip: to go to NYC and see a bunch of broadway shows

Where I’m from: New York, The United States of Amurica

When I created this account: Uhh Idk about a year ago? I only started posting recently tho

Why I created this account: For funsies I guess?

I don’t have 20 followers so we’re gonna do 5 lol

@wilde-guess

@you-know-me-and-where-i-be

@alicsnotalex

@love-likewar

@thefaeriemagic3

K that’s it bye

[aewenaiyana]

The average American millennial will take around 26,000 selfies in their lifetime

LikeWar

- goes to show how much I hate how I look. I've taken maybe 20 selfies in my life. I always look bad and so it discourages me from taking more. I put makeup on and look ok in the mirror but not on camera. I'm not a typical millennial. I don't know how people can actually like how they look. Enough to put it on camera. I just don't get it. How can people look good all the time?