If you've noticed what seems to be inorganic activity on social media over the past several months, you may not be crazy.
Let's talk about it.
First, all the cards on the table.
This investigation comes from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a Jewish-led think-tank that partnered with Jordan Peterson a few months ago to discuss how the phrase "Christ is King" has been co-opted by antisemitic and racist accounts, many of them not Christian.
The NCRI has been accused of partnering with entities like the far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL). You know, the same ADL that pushes for laws like the censorship bill in California that led The Babylon Bee to sue to maintain the right to tell jokes.
Don't just take my word for it:
Jordan Peterson was criticized for allying with a partner of the ADL that wanted to silence him several years ago. Some saw it as a move to silence voices to the right of him (Peterson is an agnostic Canadian liberal who has pointed out beautiful things about the Bible but would not define himself as a conservative or a Christian).
This does not mean that the NCRI or Jordan Peterson did not have a point. It also doesn't mean that you can't trust the NCRI's analysis simply because they have left-leaning or Jewish bias (though I'm sure we'll get accused of being Zionist bots anyway 😂).
That brings us to the most recent report.
Secondary confirmation is important!
The NCRI claims to have isolated tens of thousands of fake MAGA accounts that have artificially boosted anti-Trump, anti-Israel talking points from users like Nick Fuentes.
Two notable examples involved bots swarming stories about the murder of a Jewish Christian couple in D.C. and the Molotov cocktail attack on pro-Israel protesters in Colorado as Israeli "false flag operations":
The report said at least 24% of the accounts that boosted and reinforced the "false flag" narratives were bot accounts created on April 26 and October 28 in 2022.
The report states:
In the days following these crises, Kremlin-affiliated propagandists and Iranian state-linked media are able to rapidly inject narratives that are taken up by MAGA-impostor influencers, who then inject them into MAGA-branded spaces.
More from Data Republican (watch our interview with her here):
Remember all the craziness that happened when Elon and Trump had a falling out and Elon said Trump's name was in the Epstein files?
I still don't know why Elon said that, but it's worth noting that foreign bots were pushing the narrative to amplify weirdos like Fuentes in order to make people feel like the majority of "conservatives" supported the idea.
Another example that went viral this week was an account called Red Pill Media, which turned out to be a non-American influencer based in Pakistan:
There are many "American patriot" or "Western civilization is awesome" accounts like this that are run by foreigners - many times in places like Southeast Asia - in order to farm engagement and/or push an agenda.
So whether you trust the NCRI as far as you can throw them, that does not mean their analysis of the anti-Jewish goons on the "right" (think pepe anarchists and raw-meat libertarians who don't know their Bibles) is wrong.
This doesn't mean their analysis is complete. They gave no answers for how this is happening on the Left - something I think we all saw in real-time during Covid lockdowns - and while they focus on typical left-wing boogeymen like Russia, they don't talk at all about the largest censorship regime in the world.
So what should you take out of all this?
Propaganda comes on all sides (even your own).
Everyone participates in propaganda to a certain extent.
Not all propaganda is false (the Gospel, for example, is the truest "propaganda" of all time 😂).
It's best to assume that anonymous accounts on the internet are not based conservative chuds until proven otherwise.
Tune out from social media when it feels like a wave of accounts are trying to "sell" you an idea through peer pressure.
Wait and verify.
Find authoritative sources who care about truth and are willing to put their names on things.
READ YOUR DANG BIBLES.
Stay safe and keep your discernment sharp out there, folks!
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