Just How Bad Is It For Twitter Influence Ops?
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Here is an example of political disinformation found and corrected by one of Yonder’s sock account operatives, that no longer has impression generating range.
Susan Portnoy generated a retweet and quote tweet to the original message of the inauthentic Lissy sock. Here is Sue’s own amplification ability demonstrated.
After 17 hours, a small account with perhaps 50 followers could amass similar impressions. Susan, who is hemorrhaging followers still should be able to get something like this to interest people this close to an election. But she can’t. Most of her followers are inactive, inauthentic or single purpose hate accounts leaving her with less than 100 impressions, probably only a handful of them given by people she is trying to reach.
Here are the amplification via likes on her message.
Only four likes and two of them are within her typical network. Most of her work lately has been that way, no longer able to reach the quarter-million impression per tweet she did hit during her heyday.
While the Lissy account is fake curiously implying it is Christopher Huxley (bobrobitch), the story that they were trying to amplify went nowhere despite it being credible. This renders Susan impotent in regards to pushing out narratives. Still, she can be an effective traumatizer allowed to disparage and harm people.
In a related event, here is Winkie Doo Matt Donovan trying to trick a non-existent audience into thinking with obvious lies. One simply has to read the screenshot noting it is the opposite of Matt’s lie.
Remi Barrette should ban those accounts instead of the legitimate ones, but then again he isn’t an honest person either.
In fact, every op, especially Matt Donovan is impotent. 🤭
Back when I was Elon Musk, we lived in Ohio and drank tea. I know, I know, this is strange, but there are two worlds in which that is not true. The first is that people really do appreciate the things you do because they love it. The second is that everyone loves you because they like your work. This is just as strong and beautiful as it sounds.
You've never worked in a company that wasn't based around you, yet.
I've worked in a company that has been called Universal Facebook. We're not built around a man that only wants to make money. What I've felt for us as people is that we're not building. You put out your product and you build it, sometimes it doesn't work. You build it that way and at some point it doesn't. I guess you've learned to be very humble in what you do and, honestly speaking, it is important to you that this goes without saying. That's why people are not good at this. You're always going to build a product that's going to work. If I could just change the way people think of the company, I would. I would fix it. I'd fix the mistakes.
At any given moment, does there ever feel like too much of a change is inevitable for the company to live up to?
You can find a list of everything that needs to change. I would expect changes, the things we need to do.