The Disinformation Kill Chain (MAGIC)
The Disinformation Kill Chain (MAGIC)
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Sam, a high school student asked me several questions for an independent study project on misinformation and propaganda. The questions are:
1. What are some common examples of misinformation/deception/propaganda online?
2. Can misinformation be categorized based on…
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Sam, a high school student asked me several questions for an independent study project on misinformation and propaganda. The questions are:
1. What are some common examples of misinformation/deception/propaganda online?
2. Can misinformation be categorized based on intent, content type, medium, subject matter, and source? If so, how can one identify them and their differences?
3. Deception and propaganda seem to be distinct from other types of misinformation. Please help me understand the differences, if they are different, past being intentionally manipulative.
4. What techniques and strategies are necessary/essential to create and disseminate misleading information?
5. What are some of the psychological and social factors that make individuals more susceptible to misinformation?
6. How and why is it difficult to change somebody’s mind after they have been exposed to misinformation?
7. How does repetition and distraction play a big role when it comes to people believing misinformation?
8. What is the easiest way to detect misinformation?
9. To combat misinformation, what strategies can be implemented for developing countermeasures to promote critical thinking?
10. What are some other resources or materials that could help my research?
The MAGIC Disinformation Kill Chain stands for:
MAKE the goal
ACQUIRE the target
GENERATE the disinformation
INFILTRATE the target (or INITIATE the operation)
CASCADE the amplification
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In the early segment of this, when describing the different types of deceptive methods of information transference, I think (he said, half-jokingly, half-not) you forgot perhaps THE most important one: due diligence/skepticism 😅. In almost every single instance, outside of perhaps a tiny minority, 3-10 minutes using basic reasonably-phrased boolean searchs to google and one can successfully disprove the false information before spreading it.
While it may be true that politicians, businesses, and religions operate pretty complex, organized propaganda and disinformation machines…..it's also true that a couple minutes of non-lazy, socially-responsible question-asking by the average person would undo/prevent almost all such cons and disinformations.
We always hear everyone in the public complain about corporations abusing them……then they still buy from those corporations when it's only barely less convenient to do business with a less abusive one. Same thing with videos games, movies, politicians, etc 😂 they knowingly cast their vote against their own self-interest and that of their peers…..and then complain they couldn't have known better.
Nah, they just didn't value their fellow peers, and their natural responsibility thereto enough to spend a couple minutes to protect them. Take political elections, shorter US cycles of such: it only takes 30-40 minutes on any NUMBER of free, politically-neutral online resources that in a single brief page breakdown for every politician: past jobs, education, affiliations, how much they got from each and every donor, in three setences what their 3 top stated priorities are, etc etc. And same things for bills and measures.
Your average "citizen" can't even be bothered to spend 30 mins every 2-4 years to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their peers 😂. I recognize the topic of the video is approaching information perversion from the SENDING parties…..but I think it's worth mentioning that outside of some very niche and uncommon examples, the real problem with information perversion is the RECEIVING parties. Like, HELL, at least the decieving parties put a little brains and efforts into their immoral schemes; the deceived parties willingly go along with committing/supporting those immoral activities by being willfully ignorant and lazy. In a weird, non-intuitive way, the real moral criminals are probably the general public. Because both parties participate in evil activities, but only one, apparently, have much wit. And functionally and intentionally retarded animals in a herd is not a smart investment in that herd's survival.
Georgia isn't pro russian, much to the contrary.
Gossip! Tale as old as time.
Both misinformation and disinformation are compulsively consumed and regurgitated to maintain our appetite for social belonging. We all hunger for knowledge but are prone to wander from a healthy diet of substance to an unhealthy one of tasty junk. Our thirst for information, much like the body's ability to survive longer without food than water, is a social one. Feeling informed is akin to belonging, socially included. Fact, fiction, fantasy, or fallacy are all irrelevant so long as it's collaborative. The problem, which disinformation preys on, is conflating information as knowledge. Intelligence is enough knowledge to confidently evaluate how likely information is to be true. Social acceptance, however, can create a confidence that is mistaken for intelligence.
Not to mince words, but I’m a historian.
It’s a little misleading to say “the Republicans wanted to end slavery,” and apply it to the discourse about teaching Black History in schools.
The Republicans of the mid 19th century were a completely different party, and they weren’t a Conservative Party. The Democratic Party of that time was a small government, states rights, Conservative Party. That’s why they were defending a state’s right to have slavery in its borders.
Today, the Democratic Party tends to support the discussions of perspectives of various groups in history classes, and Republicans do in fact consider such things to be “woke,” and therefore “Marxist.”
When you say, “the Republicans wanted to end slavery,” that’s true, but it was when their party had a totally different agenda.
It’s more complicated than even I’m explaining because this is a YouTube comment, but we really should be wary of saying things like that in discussions about current events because frankly, what either party’s agenda was back then isn’t relevant to them now.
You need the read the book "Outrage Machine " it details out the algorithm used at first by social media and then main stream news to get people to react emotionally. I blame the American psychosis on the them both.
For me a trustful source is someone stating "In my opinion" or specially a scientist or a person with a higher level of knowledge of a topic says "Some in my field may disagree, but from my research that I have seen in x to be true" has gets a high score of being a source to be trusted (in my opinion). Not that I here it to often, feel like so many in the news or social media is selling there view and are willing to stretch what is true, so that there is a higher chance of convincing someone that it is true.
'Range' is a good book for you generalists out there
I also recommend "The death of expertise"
Don't watch TV while being in System 1 thinking…
Accept mode
Easy mode
Source
Content
Audience
Medium
Effect
When looking at suspected psyop… The above can be useful
What's your opinion on Hunter Biden's laptop.
I clicked on the channel because I saw the “(corrected)” videos. I always love channels that admit when they’re wrong, and that’s a reason I love Sabine Hossenfelder
Ryan confirmation bias would be the more concise way to say predisposition to being on a team. Psychology of confirmation bias leads to a doubling down on misinformation
18:50 as a fellow wizards fan I feel your pain too well man😔
the conservatives wanted slavery during Lincolns presidency, the liberals wanted it abolished.
This video is actual disinformation. I skipped to the part on the MAGIC section and immediately it is saying that the U.S. didn’t commit war crimes by sending the cluster munitions because they didn’t sign an agreement on them. Unfortunately, periodic use of cluster munitions by the AFU on civilian targets in the Donbas has made the support a war crime. This is based on factual information, not the agenda of your disinformation project.
The food pyramid was DIP.
Drinking and smoking a Churchill before going on a run says it all, this dude is a MAN, facts
Ryan deploys all kinds of disinfo./misinfo. to make IDF look good or innocent!! Ryan has become good at putting lipstick on IDF 🐖!
Bruh Ryan, hasn't the last comment section on the video about Project 2025 taught you anything? The slavery part is literally implied in: "A report on the negative influence of action civics on students’ understanding of history and civics and their disposition toward the United States". Basically anything that may make the US look bad and which leads to a differentiated view on the US. And as a student of political sciences, I'm very sad that you confuse the Republicans of today with the Republicans of Lincoln. Those are two different things and we've gone through multiple party systems since then, not to mention the switch of the positions of both parties that happened sometime after WW2. So saying "they've been the ones that wanted to abolish slavery, so clearly they won't be the ones who don't want to teach about slavery" is not a logical conclusion, as the precondition, that they are entirely the same (or even have that motivation which you say), isn't true, they've laid out their motivation very clearly in that document.
Starts off with " a cigar and drink before my morning run, and yes, they are chilli stains", then gives a detailed speach on misinformation. My man, your such a cool guy 🤣
Sad how one year old palestinian baby Ahmad Al-Najar was decapitated by Israeli forces.
Fantastic video no notes but one. Your comment made n republican and democrats during Lincoln and the civil was was disingenuous because IE, the party system flipped sometime after the civil war. IE the republicans are the current democrats, and democrats of the time are now republicans it’s nothing against you. But I know you try to fight disinformation so I wanted to do my part to do the same for you.
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Bro, the Lincoln Republicans and current republicans are not at all the same. If you are unaware of this salient and easily proven fact, that’s a separate issue.
When MAGA says Project 2025 is “there people,” and written by abt 100 former Trump admin officials, one can make reasonable inferences.
Your reasoning on this topic is faulty.
Unfortunately your the biggest source of dissinformation around. Ukraine has lost the war. They can't and was never going to win, short of nuclear war. You could have used your platform to tell the truth and help get that conflict in Ukraine to an end. And now with 700k dead Ukranians
Manipulators on Youtube will dress "smart", with a sleek suit, and peddle lies. Ryan dresses in his pajamas and stained T-shirt, but says smart things.
Your next monetization check needs to go to a clean shirt lol
Ground news goated
Seems the Russian trolls are getting jittery 😂😂
Would you say that America and China have similar standards of Beauty?People have said that generally we think of beauty similarly, yet 58 party members indicate that this is not true.
That sucks you can't give somebody a gun in Maryland. In gun friendly States you can give guns as gifts what's depending on where I'm at Play Amos Lee I often will give a gift of a gun from my collection or if on the other side I'll buy a gun with one of my kids in my Pandora my brother and if they shoot it and like it oftentimes off just give them that firearm after a while
Your cigar makes me want one.
15:22 Am I hearing this wrong or does he actually think modern Republicans and 1860s Republicans are the same?
People get so mad when you dont have hard left wing opinions lol.
Downplaying project 2025 as merely fanciful propaganda is a little sus. "Nothing to see here folks… nothing to worry about…. just a little scripting of role play"
This video was sponsored by Angel's Envy whiskey, wasn't it? Nice placement 😀
Thank you for normalising being a respected expert in a messy shirt
Did you know that chickens are about the only animal that deliver their eggs out the same hole that they poop out of? Good to know.
Be a generalist. One of my earliest memories is riding in the car with my dad, and he’s telling me about something Granddad knew something about. Granddad was not a college graduate, but was a merchant mariner, then an Airborne Officer in WWII, then an editor. I said, “wow, Granddad knows everything!” My dad said, “no one knows everything, but Granddad knows something about everything.” That’s shaped my life.