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Article: “How Russian Trolls Behave Online”The article informs the reader that internet trolls exist. Internet trolls can be agents of governments, trying to influence and manipulate one’s political actions and their thinking. One Russian government sponsored troll farm called the “Internet Research Agency.” An investigation from Special Counsel Robert Mueller showed that their main aim was to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election. Internet trolls can be identified by: targeted tweeting, distinctive behaviour and working many angles. The investigation looked at 1,024 accounts controlled by Internet Research Agency, collectively tweeting out 27,291 tweets. All the tweets were targeted at the candidates and events that were happening at the time, such as the Charlottesville Protests. That finding fits with other research showing that Internet Research Agency trolls infiltrated and exerted influence in online communities with both left- and right-leaning political views. The accounts declared their location through a country, Russia, which contradicts the norm, as twitter users are usually more precise, inserting a city. Internet Research Agency also changed their twitter names and descriptions in favour of Donald Trump, they also used hashtags to spread the messages, this worked as a particular accounts follower count surged from 1,296 to 4,308 between May 15, 2016, and July 22, 2016.Internet trolls exploit the fact that people are very easily influenced. As the saying goes, “if a lie is repeated long enough, people will believe it.” Through trolls, people’s viewpoints are influenced and can change. The article and its content can still be applied, and is still relevant, to the present day. Governments, companies or people tweet out certain things to help their image or try to influence a person to change their viewpoints. A prominent example is Donald J. Trump, who uses his Twitter account as a propaganda tool, using it as a medium to spread the message that he believes in to his followers. The question that stood out to me is, why governments do this. Of course, money is what keeps the world spinning, but to try to influence the people of another country, for financial gain. Another country should not be allowed to try to influence the other countries citizens. Why so governments leave tracks, leave proof?  Video: “Poetry and Propaganda”The 6-minute video informs viewers about the main and most common 7 propaganda techniques that companies and countries disguise as advertising, since we don’t realize that they are being used on us every day. The video explains propaganda techniques like name calling or stereotyping, glittering generalities or virtues/values, testimonial, transfer/association, bandwagon, plain folks, and bad logic. The video then concludes that companies and countries will resort to these strategies to promote a cause or a product, whether it is a positive or negative message. This is sufficiently relevant to the viewer, as it makes us aware of the lies told in propaganda that aim to convince us of taking part on a campaign, buy a product, or promote a cause almost blindly, and unaware of the true intentions of that company or campaign. This will affect the viewer to a personal level, as the video highlights multiple important points about propaganda that may affect them negatively. This provokes uncertainty of the genuinity of messages or intentions displayed by propaganda in the viewer, and makes them want to question it by asking themselves analytical questions about the propaganda and therefore decide whether or not they will support it. Just one question surged while watching the video. The guy explaining each propaganda technique wasn’t really speaking with detail, and was giving rough definitions and examples of each one. This made me question why dishonesty from propaganda producers results in a success, rather than well-intended and honest messages from propagande producers that want to make amendments to the world for the better, who do not resort to repeating the same lie, or even corruption. This is important to me, as I believe for the world to reach the long-desired utopia, it has to be the other way round, but unfortunately, most, if not all people involved in this, are only in it for the money, and not the change for better.

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I’ve read an article called “Ridiculous as a weapon”. In the article Michael Waller is explaining that humor can be a positive persuasion tool in order to demonize the enemy. His ideas offers not to take enemies seriously but to make fun of them as by taking them seriously we make them potentially stronger, but it is what we need to avoid.

This ideas is actually relevant to everyday life when we ( if we do ) communicate with people. It is not a secret that we build different relationships with different people, sometimes we feel confident next to someone or , in other hand, sometimes we feel miserable. But why it happens? We feel closer and more opted for people who is not afraid to hurt us with their joke.

While reading I had following questions :

What kind of joked? How strong should they be?

How many times did I see people using this method?

Did any one used it against me? Did I use it?

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Article:
1. By reading the article 'Understanding propaganda and disinformation', we were able to learn the following key ideas:
a. Manipulation of information: old tools, new tricks
b. Propaganda: purposeful dissemination of information and ideas
c. Disinformation: systematic and intentional deception
d. Misinformation: unintentionally incorrect information
e. Official EU and NATO usage of the terms 'disinformation' and/or 'propaganda
2. Connect to your experience: These ideas enlightened us as for the legality of propaganda techniques and their extent in a certain aspects and situations.
3.  What are the consequences of misinforming the public.
Video:
1. By watching the video '

Why obvious lies make great propaganda', we were able to learn the following key ideas:

a. How politicians can resort to lies to spread misleading facts, in the sense that they may either vary or makeup certain facts to appeal to the audience.
b. The importance of recognizing lies in propaganda.
2. Connect to your experience: The relevance of this video is very hi

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The article that we chose to read was the “entertainment or propaganda?” article by Leo Braudy. In that article, they explained that social bias is secretly embedded through entertainment medias such as movies and advertisement. For example, in Hollywood, they would show foreign groups and side them with either good or bad, a common trait in most movies. This can lead a viewer to be influenced by this bias and hare the same opinion without thinking as much.  This connects to our experience because it can manipulate the way we think about various sections in our life through the use of the entertainment industry. The questions that entered our mind when reading this article is that whether it’s the same in education and how much of what we believe is influenced by bias in movies we watch?

The video we watch was “News Channel or Propaganda Tool?” produced by Al Jazeera. This video explains how RT, a Russian news channel, uses their power to manipulate their audience’s opinions through the use of card stacking, where they would show only the bad parts of a situation or the most crowded area in an event. This would manipulate the audience opinion of the situation and only know one side of it. This relates to our lives because we are exposed to news outlets that carry their own opinion and since this is how we get information; we are forced to believe them. From this video, we learn that we should think carefully before swallowing down information as some may be biased, one sided or false. The question that we have from this video is that which news outlets that are well known are also known to be biased and untruthful?

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The oxford article was a study analyzing survey of online news users, in order to understand audience perspectives on fake news. The result showed that most people see the difference between fake news and news very slight and they find it hard to differentiate between them. In addition, it also showed that people identify fake news as poor journalism and propaganda. It is believed that the spreading of fake news is driven by a combination of factors such as media sources who publish it, politicians who supported it and platforms that distribute it. Among all the surveys it was found that people disagree on which sources are reliable, and that very few sources are seen as reliable by all.

The video we choose talks about seven of the many propaganda techniques, they are plain folks, transfer, testimonial, glittering generalities, name calling, bandwagon and “something as simple as a jacket”. The last technique was used throughout the video and well explained at the end of the video. The man was wearing a doctor’s jacket to give an example of the technique.

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Article:
1.The article is about how media shows "fake news". A flow of misinformation leads people to believe something. This leads to low trust in media and politicians.
2. A lot of "fake new" has been spreading about the coronavirus. This is misinformation by the media making it "fake news".
3.Where can we get reliable sources?
Video:
1. They talk about he 7 propaganda techniques that are present in our everyday lives. How our countries use propaganda. Some examples are name calling, glittering generalities, and testimonial.
2. This relates to us, because governments and companies use propaganda techniques to advertise their idea or product to us.
3. What are examples of each techniques?

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1. The video i watched is the 7 propaganda techniques used on your everyday life. In the video the person talks about 7 different techniques and many uses use propaganda. The 7 techniques where name calling, generalities, the testimonial, transfer, bandwagon, plain folks.
What i can understand from this video
the techniques  is to help people to analyse the poster and know what type of propaganda is used in the poster or an ad.

2. The article i read is about a media that represents fake news. It just explain how fake news make people believe what ever fake news announce something that didn't happen or rumors and it's a problem because some people can easily know that it not true and can lead to low trust in political.

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For the video, we watched the '7 propaganda techniques used on your everyday life'. This video talks about different techniques and ways which many propaganda users include in their propaganda. It mentioned bandwagon, name calling, glittering generalities, testimonial, transfer, plain folks, as well as talking about the appeal to ethos. For each of these techniques, it gave examples to help understand them better. These are helpful to know to many people because they can analyse an ad or a poster which is used as propaganda better to see whether its credible or biased.

The article we read was At" A Glance: Understanding Propaganda and Disinformation', written by the European Parliament in 2015. The article talks about the different factors which need to be considered when looking at propaganda and gives some background information on it, as well as talking about the laws which are not set on the subject. This is relevant mainly to people who work in marketing, as they will know which points to follow and how to sell their thing.

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The article that we read was about how Russian trolls behave online on social media surrounding the 2016 U.S presidential election.

We’ve learned that one group, aRussian government-sponsored troll farm called the Internet Research Agency (IRA) was being studied and investigated. We leaned that  around 28,000 tweets were controlled by the IRA and the main focus of the troll farm were to focus tweets about events like the Charlottesville protest or any political topics related to Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. We also learned that troll-farm accounts behave differently from regular people. For example when declaring their location they would only mention a country and would tend to be unspecific. Another thing that we leaned is that the work at many angles and it was found that they frequently reset their online account information like their name and description. This could be repurposed to advocate a different position or target a different demographic of users.
This was relatable to us as the internet is full of trolls and we’ve both come across many of them. We’ve seen trolls that don’t target the US election but sometimes they can be very negative and they say inappropriate things.
Questions that we’ve thought of is: How did the trolls impact the elections? Or are there more troll farm that aren’t a form Russia that targeted the US elections?

For the video we watched the ‘7 Propaganda Techniques Used on you Everyday’.  This video talks about different techniques and the ways which the propaganda techniques are used and seen in our daily lives. It mentioned many propaganda techniques such as  bandwagon, name calling, glittering generalities, testimonial, transfer, plain folks, as well as talking about the appeal to ethos and pathos. For each one the propaganda techniques, they guy in the video provided an example o understand them better and to show how they can be used. This video was helpful and we can relate to it as we try to analyze propaganda and see weather they are being used in a positive way or a negative way. Also to be able and tell weather it is credible or biased.

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The article that I read was titled 'How Russian Trolls Behave Online'  This article talked about how a Russian agency called the “Internet Research Agency” aimed to influence the 2016 presidential election in the United States by creating various fake accounts and tweeted on world events. Close to 30,000 tweets were posted by around 1000 different accounts that are said to be controlled by the Russian government. Reasoning behind believing that these were all fake accounts is because twitter accounts are known to have a specific city or town within their account. Instead these 1000 accounts listed a country, but not any particular city in that country. And the country that was most commonly found between these accounts were ‘Russia’. These ideas are meaningful to our lives because it shows how much of an influence online trolls have. Tweets from accounts have the capability to influence and affect something as big as presidential election in a major country such as the United States. This is relevant to life because anyone can create fake accounts and be able to post and comment whatever they like on the internet no matter how controversial it may be. The effects that that specific tweet will leave has the potential to be dangerous. Questions that entered my mind as reading this article was what were the specific effects that tweets left on the election, how did the troll accounts move towards bringing votes towards a specific person in the election.

The video I watched was ‘7 Propaganda techniques used in your everyday life’. This video included plain folks, glittering generalities, name calling,  testimonial, transfer, bandwagon. It talked about each of these techniques and explained how they can be implemented into our life. One thing that I learned was that propaganda techniques can affect our lives a lot because the way that we get sold products by these techniques. These propaganda techniques can also benefit us when wanting to get a certain point through or trying to advertise something to anyone.