In recent years, online media has become an important tool for manipulating public opinion. What are the tactics for manipulating public opinion through online media?
In recent years, online media has become an important tool for manipulating public opinion. What are the tactics for manipulating public opinion through online media?
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Online media manipulation generally involves exploiting users' emotions, generating content that is designed to create a certain response from an audience, and making false or deceptive statements. Tactics include generating polarizing content to appeal to extreme ideologies, inflaming tense topics by presenting only one side of the story, promoting propaganda masquerading as truth, using clickbait headlines and eye-catching visuals in order to grab readers’ attention, flooding social media with “astroturf” (false) accounts and postings under different monikers, seeding comments sections with biased information or anonymous critics as well as seeding sponsored ads among authentic messages.
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In recent years, online media has become an important tool for manipulating public opinion. What are the tactics for manipulating public opinion through online media?
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Tactics for manipulating public opinion through online media include the use of targeted advertising and fake accounts, bots, and bot networks. Additionally, posting biased information, using fear or shame to motivate audiences, sharing sensationalist headlines and news stories, as well as creating false news in an attempt to portray a false perception of reality. Furthermore, many people tend to trust voices they agree with more than the voices they disagree with on the Internet. Online media platforms are also used to promote propaganda by repetitively stating their own desired version of truths.
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