Turns out it's not memes but the intent behind those, check that out, it could be used as a tactic to sink poal I think, elections are coming... To sink poal either on purpose, by malevolent actors, or by accident by clueless idiots who might think it's a great idea to pull that one "trick" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/nyregion/douglass-mackey-trump-sentencing.html
The man, Douglass Mackey, spread internet memes meant to fool people into not voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016. A digital-age dirty-trickster who used Twitter posts that looked like Hillary Clinton ads to spread false information before the 2016 presidential election was sentenced on Tuesday to seven months in prison. During a trial last spring, prosecutors presented evidence that the man, Douglass Mackey, had joined private Twitter groups where participants reveled in using lies and deceit on behalf of Donald J. Trump, carrying out what one participant termed “the deep psyops of meme war.” Much of that activity was protected by the First Amendment, prosecutors said. But they argued that Mr. Mackey committed a crime days before the election when, using the name Ricky Vaughn, he posted images targeting Black and Latino voters that claimed it was possible to vote by text message. The idea, prosecutors said, was to suppress votes for Mrs. Clinton. [...] Prosecutors asked that Mr. Mackey be sentenced to six months to a year in prison. They wrote that any changes in his life were not because of regret, but because of his unmasking in 2018 as Ricky Vaughn, a notoriously hateful figure who boasted of leveraging a “troll army” and was included by M.I.T. Media Lab on a list of top election influencers. Referring to Mr. Mackey’s actions as mere clicks minimized their impact, prosecutors said, because his “true power was his ability to spread messages to convert his clicks into tens of thousands more.” Mr. Mackey’s trial provided a glimpse into a crass world in which far-right activists in Twitter groups called “War Room” and “Infowars Madman” sought to sow chaos and division with the goal of boosting Mr. Trump. “I wanted to infect everything,” testified one participant, identified only as Microchip, who began cooperating with the F.B.I. in 2018 and pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to his circulation of misinformation. Evidence showed that participants discussed generating interest in emails stolen from the Clinton campaign by Russia; portraying Mrs. Clinton as a “warmonger”; and promoting the claim that she had “cheated” during the primaries to get supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders to “hate not just Hillary, but the Democratic Party itself.”
"...a crass world in which far-right activists in Twitter groups called “War Room” and “Infowars Madman” sought to sow chaos and division with the goal of boosting Mr. Trump..."
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Chirping Intensifies
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