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MOSCOW, Mar 27 propaganda, or for the sake of profit, writes journalist Hayley Phelan in an essay for The New York Times. In her opinion, the topic of Ukraine has acquired a lot of memes, and this entails not only positive, but also negative consequences. Phelan cited social media algorithms aimed at distributing the most profitable content as the reason for this phenomenon.Expert: Ukrainian fakes about special operation became memes because of absurdity»It is important to note that this is not necessarily a natural social phenomenon. Rather, it is a direct result of an algorithm developed by companies seeking profit. Social networks are optimized for the fastest, hottest and most outrageous actions, Max Stossel, an adviser to the Center for Humane Technologies, a non-profit organization dedicated to rethinking digital infrastructure, told me,” the author of the article explained. a complex geopolitical history is transformed in social networks into an absurdly simple narrative.
«Before we know it, we have a tech billionaire challenging the Russian president to a fight as if they were in a school locker room. And the crowd cheers for it all,» she lamented.Elon Musk thought about creating his own social networkThe journalist also drew attention to the case when a picture of a Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi opposing an Israeli soldier went viral on social networks. A photo from 2012 was passed off as an image of a Ukrainian woman speaking out against a Russian serviceman. According to Phelan, simplification creates fertile ground for these fakes. «In addition to important questions about why some conflicts collect our clicks and others do not, videos with «mislabeled» illustrate the «broken phone effect» that occurs when we thoughtlessly Like and share: Even without blatant lies, by compressing complex global events into flat images that can be understood with little context, social media tends to promote simplistic narratives that validate existing prejudices, leaving users incredibly vulnerable to misinformation and propaganda «, — says the author of the article.The West unleashed a psychic war, She recalled the opposite effects of too much consumption of information about crisis situations on social networks: this can lead both to increased anxiety, which only provokes panic, and to «a sense of complacency.» «We believe that we already know what is happening, and we can be completely convinced of our ideas about who are the «bad guys» and who are the «good guys,» Phelan concluded. who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, to bring war criminals responsible for crimes against civilians in Donbass to justice. As the Ministry of Defense stated, the Armed Forces inflict strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops.With the support of the Russian military the offensive of the grouping of the Ddonetsk and Luhansk people's republics is being waged. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, Putin emphasized.