The Invisible War to Hijack Minds, Distort the Truth, and Impact Elections
summary
Presentation exposes concrete claims: coordinated misinformation aims to sway elections and vaccine uptake, operators use a gaming PC plus NodeXL, CrowdTangle and Botometer to map networks, and a cluster of roughly 30 accounts reaches a minimum of 94,000 people in 48 hours. Findings show a blog fundraising off emotional, debunked vaccine stories, one account suspended, and link analysis visualizations that trace affinity‑group seeding. Recommendations: three trusted news sources, incident playbooks, predebunking and routine scanning with the listed tools.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:55Disinformation
- 9:30Who is behind manipulation campaigns
- 9:48How are they doing it
- 10:02Deepfakes
- 12:32Red Flags
- 13:08Memes
- 16:05Findings
- 20:06Data
- 20:46Crowdtangle
- 23:37Action Steps
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