Let's take things from the beginning. It has been known that for decades, parties and governments have been using the media (TV, Twitter as instruments to propagate their policies, their projects, their programs, their goals, etc.,
Είναι επίσης γνωστό, πως κόμματα και κυβερνήσεις, διατηρούν πελατειακές σχέσεις με media groups, είτε με τη μορφή χορήγησης κρατικών διαφημίσεων που ως αντάλλαγμα έχουν την παρουσίαση και τη δημιουργία καλού προφίλ στο κόμμα ή στη κυβέρνηση, είτε με τη μορφή άλλου είδους εξυπηρετήσεων πχ χορήγηση δάνειων από banks χωρίς εγγυήσεις και πάει λέγοντας.
Με άλλα λόγια,τα κόμματα και οι κυβερνήσεις, κατεύθυναν (και συνεχίζουν να το κάνουν) την information όπως αυτά επιθυμούσαν , αναλόγως με τους σκοπούς που ήθελαν να εξυπηρετούν κατά καιρούς.
In recent years, with the development of social media to a superlative degree, the game of manipulating opinions and morenews “έπρεπε” να περάσει σταδιακά απο τα παραδοσιακά ΜΜΕ (ραδιόφωνο,τηλεόραση,περιοδικά,εφημερίδες,) στο χώρο του Internet.
And that's how it happened. Suddenly, a bunch of informative sites and blogs began to show up, "critical" at times, on the order of order and position, depending on the package and the order, on the events that were taking place.
And from the era of portals, sites and blogs, we have moved to the era where the absolute trend on the internet is Microblogging, i.e. updating, through proposals that do not exceed 140 characters, in other words to information via Twitter, which is now particularly popular among all ages due to its ease of use and penetration.
How, however, is it possible to be able to form opinions and consciences on a via such as Twitter, which is 100% free and anyone can write what they want?
How can a government or a party be able to pass through its messages and manipulate the citizens, since everyone can read any accounts they want?
The thing is simple. See the example below presented today by prezatv.blogspot.com and you will understand everything.
Let's say we have a party, which we will call "COMPETITION OF HOPE", who wants to use Twitter to shape the world a certain opinion and opinion. The opinion that "HOMEPAGE" wants to pass is that the leader of the opposing party, which henceforth we will call "COME OF FREEDOM", has a very bad plan and program for the economy of the country.
How will this succeed?
Someone from the party undertakes to set up a "communication" group for the Internet and more specifically for the Twitter domain.
(The "job" can also make it a trusted communications company).
It will hire approximately 50-60 people to instruct to create from 10 twitter accounts each. These accounts will initially work as regular accounts, that is, as normal users of twitter who write what they want, while at the same time they start to "follow", specific users and groups of people such as politicized users, famous Twitter characters, journalists, politicians, artists , bloggers, etc. with which dialogues will be opened from time to time.
In other words, they will behave like "normal" users without showing that they are the product of a party's assignment.
When the time comes and the order is received from HOMEPAGE, these accounts (60 people on 10 accounts each = 600 accounts) will start propagating with their tweets, messages against the leader of the party "FOOT OF FREEDOM" they are holding him for his financial plan.
So out of nowhere…. 600 accounts, at the same time, will express their dissatisfaction with the financial program of the leader of the FREEDOM PARTY.
This will result in the users who follow the specific profiles which are essentially partisan… to read the specific negative opinion about the financial program of the president of the "FREEDOM PARTY".
Indeed, this communicative "war" becomes stronger when the political leader decides to make a big talk or come out to speak on a TV show.
Then these 600 accounts will comment on the statements they will make using hashtag.
(For those unfamiliar with twitter, the hashtag is the name of the "category" of a comment topic on Twitter. rouvas κτλ…)
In this way, when one goes to read the comments made on twitter, for the head of "FREEDOM" speech will see 600 different from each other, twitter accounts, have a specific negative view of his financial plan political party and party.
So the opinion he will form is that his party leader has a very bad economic program that will probably harm the country and is not socially acceptable.
What do we mean and what do we conclude from above?
Parties and governments, in order to propagate their policies and programs in the field of social media and especially in the area of Twitter, which now has the greatest influence, set up entire communication-propaganda groups that work exactly like the above example.
They create fake accounts, which initially function as normal users and then after gaining followers, start and promote specific opinions, opinions, people, situations, etc.
In fact, in major political or social events, they use the occasional hashtags that are established depending on the topic… and by bombarding tweets. Form opinions.
Indeed, it has been observed that some parties are ordering these profiles to engage in dialogue with Twitter users who have a great impact when they have a counter-opinion with them and either alter them to lose the meaning of their original Tweets or split.
Somewhat so simple… without many philosophies and without many twitter users realizing it, they often receive messages from such accounts that only aim at custom propaganda….
After that τι what do you not understand?
