ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2018. Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil. ^ On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities.^ Schreckinger, Ben (March–April 2017).Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation" (PDF). ^ Blanchette, Jude Livingston, Scott Glaser, Bonnie S.^ "What is memetic warfare and how it threats democratic values? - European Endowment For Democracy: EED"."Academic journal "Defence Strategic Communications" Vol1 | StratCom". Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2018. Memetics-A Growth Industry in US Military Operations (PDF) (MSc). It is also a memetic warfare agent, a leftover from the buildup to the Pacific War that may well cause more damage than all of the dormant AKVs in orbit. The Unified Way is a cult of persistent popularity across Asia and into the Middle East. United States presidential election, 2016 The Political Warfare Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense oversees similar units. These teams primarily counter Chinese political warfare efforts and domestic disinformation. The Taiwanese government installed memetic engineering teams in each government department which can respond within 60 minutes to disinformation efforts using a “humor over rumor” approach. They are natural tools of an insurgency great for blowing things up, but likely to sabotage the desired effects when handled by the larger actor in an asymmetric conflict." Īccording to Jacob Siegel, "Memes appear to function like the IEDs of information warfare.
Information operations involve the collection and dissemination of information to establish a competitive advantage over an opponent". One might think of it as a subset of ‘information operations’ tailored to social media. Jeff Giesea, writing in NATO's Stratcom COE Defense Strategic Communications journal, defines memetic warfare as "competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. Memetic warfare has been seriously studied as an important concept with respects to information warfare by NATO's Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. In Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War (2006), Keith Henson defined memes as "replicating information patterns: ways to do things, learned elements of culture, beliefs or ideas." He proposed the creation of a 'Meme Warfare Center'. Memetics: A Growth Industry in US Military operations was published in 2005 by Michael Prosser, now a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps. In fiction, the 2002 game Transhuman Space presented the world of 2100 as having "memetics" as a key technology, and the 2004 expansion "Transhuman Space: Toxic Memes" gave examples of "memetic warfare agents". Memetic warfare is a modern type of information warfare and psychological warfare involving the propagation of memes on social media. QAnon began on the heels of the viral pizzagate conspiracy theory that falsely claimed Hillary and Bill Clinton ran a pedophile ring out of a Washington, DC, pizza shop. Propaganda warfare via social media memes
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