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So for those who DON'T UNDERSTAND (or care to understand) the Nature of this Type of WARFARE - Here is a Collective Terms of Reference to help assist you with some honest DISCERNMENT for where you may find yourself based upon your sources and access to Information along with some of the more common SIDE EFFECTS to include potential diagnosis or preventive remedies....
Information warfare (
IW) is the
battlespace use and management of
information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent.
Disinformation is false or misleading
information deliberately spread to
deceive people,
[1][2][3][4][5] or to secure economic or political gain and which may cause public harm.
[6] Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ
strategic deceptions and
media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals.
[7] Disinformation is implemented through coordinated campaigns
[8] that "weaponize multiple
rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also
truths,
half-truths, and
value judgements—to exploit and amplify
culture wars and other identity-driven controversies."
[9]
Misinformation refers to inaccuracies that stem from inadvertent error.
[10] Misinformation can be used to create disinformation when known misinformation is purposefully and intentionally disseminated.
[11]
Psychological warfare (
PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern
psychological operations (
PSYOP), has been known by many other names or terms, including
Military Information Support Operations (MISO), psyops,
political warfare, "
winning hearts and minds", and
propaganda.
[1][2] The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a planned psychological reaction in other people".
[3]
Military deception (
MILDEC) is an attempt by a military unit to gain an advantage during
warfare by misleading adversary decision makers into taking action or inaction that creates favorable conditions for the deceiving force.
[1][2] This is usually achieved by creating or amplifying an artificial
fog of war via psychological operations,
information warfare, visual deception, or other methods.
[3] As a form of
disinformation, it overlaps with
psychological warfare.
[4] Military deception is also closely connected to
operations security (OPSEC) in that OPSEC attempts to conceal from the adversary critical information about an organization's capabilities, activities, limitations, and intentions, or provide a plausible alternate explanation for the details the adversary can observe, while deception reveals false information in an effort to mislead the adversary.
[5]
"Normies" is basically internet slang for regular, mainstream people who aren't deep into niche subcultures, politics, memes, or online rabbit holes.
"Normies" = people who don’t overthink it or live on X reading 300 posts a day about caucus drama. They just see headlines and move on with their lives.
Doomers are people who are extremely pessimistic or
fatalistic about
global problems such as
overpopulation,
peak oil,
climate change,
ecological overshoot,
pollution,
nuclear weapons, and
runaway artificial intelligence. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to
human extinction.
[1][2]
A Shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization, or have been paid to do so. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing, politics, sports,
confidence games,
cryptocurrency, or other business areas. A shill may also act to discredit opponents or critics of the person or organization in which they have a vested interest.
[1][2]
Ignorance is a lack of
knowledge, information and
understanding. Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called
agnotology.
Brainwashing[a] is the systematic effort to get someone to adopt a particular
deception,
loyalty,
instruction, or
doctrine without their will or awareness. Brainwashing is also a colloquial term that refers in general to
psychological techniques that
manipulate action or thought against a person's
will,
desire, or
knowledge. It attempts to damage individual or group attitudes, frames of reference,
beliefs,
values or loyalties by demonstrating that current
thinking patterns and attitudes are wrong and need change.
[1] Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject's ability to think critically or independently, to allow the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds.
[2][3][4]