{"id":425,"date":"2017-02-27T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/2017\/02\/27\/a-survey-of-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:24:46","slug":"a-survey-of-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/02\/a_survey_of_pro.html","title":{"rendered":"A Survey of Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanstray.com\/networked-propaganda-and-counter-propaganda\">This<\/a> is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Doctorow <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/02\/25\/counternarratives-not-fact-che.html\">summarizes<\/a> the techniques on BoingBoing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;in Russia, it&#8217;s about flooding the channel with a mix of lies and truth, crowding out other stories; in China, it&#8217;s about suffocating arguments with happy-talk distractions, and for trolls like Milo Yiannopoulos, it&#8217;s weaponizing hate, outraging people so they spread your message to the small, diffused minority of broken people who welcome your message and would otherwise be uneconomical to reach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As to defense: &#8220;Debunking doesn&#8217;t work: provide an alternative narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excellent survey article on modern propaganda techniques, how they work, and how we might defend ourselves against them. Cory Doctorow summarizes the techniques on BoingBoing: &#8230;in Russia, it&#8217;s about flooding the channel with a mix of lies and truth, crowding out other stories; in China, it&#8217;s about suffocating arguments with happy-talk distractions, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/02\/a_survey_of_pro.html\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Survey of Propaganda&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infossl.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}