{"id":63002,"date":"2022-07-03T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63002"},"modified":"2022-07-03T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T13:19:51","slug":"ukraine-is-the-most-aggressively-trolled-war-of-all-time-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63002","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/07\/01\/ukraine-is-the-most-aggressively-trolled-war-of-all-time-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-11686\" class=\"post-11686 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-democratic-party tag-narrative-matrix tag-nuclear-war tag-politics tag-russia tag-space-colonization tag-trolls tag-ukraine\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-1200x800.jpeg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium-128x86.jpeg 128w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/medium.jpeg 1600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/ukraine-is-the-most-aggressively-trolled-war-of-all-time\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1297694077&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s nothing the US government won\u2019t do to make sure more High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems get to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured Americans: no matter how dark things may seem right now, no matter how insecure and uncertain you may feel, you can sleep soundly knowing your government is moving mountains around the clock to make sure the Ukraine war becomes a strategic quagmire for Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine war is the single most aggressively trolled issue I\u2019ve ever witnessed. As soon as it started, Twitter was full of brand new accounts swarming anyone who uttered wrongthink about Ukraine, and now there are entire extremely coordinated troll factions working to scare people away from criticizing empire narratives about this war. It\u2019s plainly very inorganic, so it\u2019s good to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2011\/mar\/17\/us-spy-operation-social-networks\">recall<\/a>\u00a0what we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1514387004574035968\">know<\/a>\u00a0about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/british-army-military-social-media-unit-twitter-troops\">trolling operations<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/uk-disinformation-twitter-facebook\">western militaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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This is going great, guys. Good job everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Sure the worst case scenario of all this brinkmanship with Russia is nuclear war, but on the other hand the\u00a0<em>best<\/em>\u00a0case scenario is securing planetary domination for an empire that has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression for power and profit. Totally worth the risk!<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 There\u2019s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s nothing the US government won\u2019t do to make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,14545,655,1169,32995,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-63002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-social-media","tag-trollling","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63003,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002\/revisions\/63003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}