It's not propaganda when media, think tanks, universities and organizations do this, only if run of the mill humans do it

Large Universities are doing studies on memes their dangerous to mankind….Kek

1st pic; The longer social media is around, the better we understand its effect on the flow of (mis)information

2nd pic: A basic example of a meme: the cat’s frowning expression could be used as a template to describe any number of undesirable situations

3rd pic:I n some respect, propaganda memes are the modern-day equivalent of political cartoons, which also leaned heavily into prejudice and stereotyping

4th pic: Propaganda memes like these greatly boosted Donald Trump’s popularity among right-leaning voters (kek)

Memes as propaganda: 22 devious techniques used to weaponize social media

Memes communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, but that’s precisely what makes them so dangerous.

Key Takeaways

• The advent of the internet gave rise to computational propaganda: the use of automated processes to spread misinformation for specific purposes.

• Memes have proven to be a particularly effective tool for computational propagandists, allowing them to convey complex ideas with minimal effort.

•Ever since the 2016 U.S. presidential election(AHA anons broke their brains), researchers have been trying to understand how memes originate and spread. Now, a recent study is calling for uniform terminology.

The form and function of memes has evolved drastically as the internet and its users matured. Currently, they can be defined, extremely loosely, as a set of standardized visual templates that, combined with one or two short sentences, quickly convey an idea or feeling which can then be applied to different situations.

When it comes to memes, examples are clearer than explanations. In “Bad Luck Brian” memes, sentences describing unfortunate circumstances are placed over an awkward school picture, while the “One Does Not Simply” meme uses a still from the film The Lord of the Rings to describe tasks that are much more difficult than others make them out to be, i.e. destroying the One Ring.

When memes first started gaining popularity in the late 2000s, most were harmless and relatively uncontroversial. However, as time went on and templates became more and more recognizable, internet memes developed into something more than just a silly joke. Thanks to their ability to communicate complex ideas quickly and efficiently, they are now being used as a form of propaganda, influencing our opinions and actions without us even knowing it.

Propaganda in the information age

Propaganda is as old as humanity itself. In the Arthashastra, an ancient Sanskrit treatise written during the third century BC.Today, propaganda is evolving yet again. Thanks to the internet and social media, propaganda is not only more common but also harder to fight. After all, digital information spreads quicker than printed texts or even word of mouth, and personalized news feeds and advertisements reduce people’s exposure to contradicting beliefs, causing them to become further entrenched in their own.

The age of information also gave birth to an entirely new form of propaganda that could not have existed before: computational propaganda, or the practice of using automated processes to spread misinformation online. Computational propagandists use a variety of media, from text to videos and — yes — memes. Lots and lots of memes.

Memes as political propaganda

There are several explanations for why memes became instruments of propaganda. Aside from the fact that they can communicate complex ideas quickly, they also require minimal effort to make and interpret. They can easily be shared online and have huge potential to go viral, making their spread and influence almost impossible to counter.While our academic understanding of the medium is still developing, propaganda memes have already had a noticeable effect on society. According to several studies focused on the U.S., memes created by domestic and foreign propagandists played a key role in both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections, influencing the public’s opinion of the candidates and affecting voter turnout.

The 2016 election in particular alarmed scholars about the power and danger that propaganda memes wield in today’s interconnected civilization. Since then, numerous studies have attempted to break down how memes communicate ideas, influence opinions, and spread through digital networks — all in the hope of minimizing their corrosive influence.

The body of academic literature on propaganda memes has grown significantly over the past few years, Researchers reviewed previous studies to create a list of 22 common propaganda techniques that can be used to recognize and better understand nefarious memes….

https://bigthink.com/the-present/memes-propaganda-internet-politics/

>>16329026 (You)pbAnons have no idea of how many universities, think tanks, organizations and Intelligence agencies are studying us, and deeming truth as propaganda, when they created "Disinformation" to propagandize…

Busted: Disinformation Operative Who Attacked Elon Musk’s Push for “Free Speech” Caught Red-Handed in Secret Influence OperationMay 23, 2022 REVOLVER

It is not yet clear whether Elon Musk’s increasingly precarious play for Twitter will result in the restoration of free speech in the “global public square.” Successful or not, Elon’s brave move has clarified beyond any doubt the Regime’s fundamental hostility to free speech and dissent. Judging from the critical reactions from journalists, NGOs and Democrat politicians, you’d think the man were attempting to invade Poland rather than remove censorship on a social media platform.

Of all the regime scribblers and scribes flooding the internet with glorified blog posts on the awfulness of Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, apiece by Renée DiRestapublished in the Atlantic stands out from the rest — not because of its force of argument, but because of the largely forgotten scandal behind its author.

Like the now disgraced and jobless Nina Jankowicz,DiResta is a career-girl of the Disinformation Industry— a constellation of NATO and US State Department-funded NGOs and civil society groups that censor inconvenient truths, facts and narratives under the guise of protecting the public from so-called “disinformation.” And like Nina Jankowicz, it turns out that DiResta’s name is closely associated with one of the most explosive and aggressively covered-up influence operations of the century.

Tellingly, in an earlier (and less guarded) piece for the Atlantic, DiResta not only encourages narrative-level political censorship on social media, she also claims that there is no political bias to social media censorship practices. DiResta insists that since misinformation overwhelmingly comes from the political right, this gives the false appearance that social media companies are biased against the right when they censor misinformation. Read the following passage and behold the twisted logic of a modern day commissar (emphasis ours):

The distinct behavior of serial spreaders of misinformation should theoretically make them easy for Facebook or Twitter to identify. Platforms that place warning labels on false or misleading content could penalize accounts that repeatedly create it; after an account earned a certain number of strikes, the platform’s algorithms could suspend it or limit users’ ability to share its posts. But platforms also want to appear politically neutral. Inconveniently for them, our research found that although some election-related misinformation circulated on the left, the pattern of the same accounts repeatedly spreading false or misleading claims about voting, or about the legitimacy of the election itself, occurred almost exclusively among pro-Trump influencers, QAnon boosters, and other outlets on the right. We were not the only ones to observe this; researchers at Harvard described the former president and the right-wing media as driving a “disinformation campaign” around mail-in voter fraud during the 2020 election; the researchers’ prior work had meticulously detailed a “propaganda feedback loop” within the closely linked right-wing media ecosystem.

In this piece we see reference to the same narratives, election integrity and Covid skepticism, that DiResta previously lumped in with ISIS and terrorism, perpetrated by vaguely defined alleged malefactors like “QAnon boosters” (whatever that is) and, Heaven forfend, “pro-Trump influencers.” DiResta backs up her shocking claim, that misinformation is essentially a right-wing problem, with a Harvard study. Without wasting too much of our time on it, we dug up the specific Harvard study DiResta references.

Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign” Despite Ambassador Dan Fried’s performative condemnation of DiResta’s Alabama operation, he saw fit to approvingly cite her as an authority in his 2020 publication (co-authored with Alina Polakova) “Democratic Offense Against Disinformation.”

Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that DiResta’s work is cited in an official Department of Homeland Security memo on “combatting targeted disinformation campaigns.”…

https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/busted-disinformation-operative-renee-diresta-integrity-initiative-free-speech-elon-musk-george-soros/

DiResta wrote this book at Harvard

=COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA: IF YOU MAKE IT TREND, YOU MAKE IT TRUE==

Her whole goal is propaganda to make people disbelieve the truth

Read the long Revolver Article, mind blowing and indepth