• Experts say Australia is not ready for meme warfare
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In 2016, an Instagram account called @army_of_jesus_ posted an image of the son of God, imploring viewers to "like if you believe" or "keep scrolling if you don't". It received almost 88,000 likes. The account, as revealed later by security researchers, was run by Russian internet trolls. While much attention has been paid to attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election on Facebook and Twitter, the role of the image-based social media platform has been largely overlooked. In fact, according to two recent reports, Instagram became the platform of choice for Russia's infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA). Thanks to accounts like @army_of_jesus_, the IRA garnered higher engagement on Instagram than it did on Facebook; across all posts that were studied in one of the reports. For example, troll posts garnered 183,246,348 likes on Instagram, compared to 37,627,085 on Facebook (although some of that could be fake traffic). Australia is home to an estimated 9 million active Instagram accounts each month and our own 2019 federal election is approaching. Are we ready for a similar type of memetic warfare?  After the "Facebook election" of 2016, observers fear Australia is still "quite naïve" about the ways social media may be manipulated to mislead and influence the national conversation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-01-20/instagram-australian-federal-election-russian-misinformation/10717034
they cant even defeat emus how can they defeat memes
https://twitter.com/clivefpalmer/status/1032836782591623173?lang=en
I'm surprised there hasn't been an international attempt to build a "firewall" around russia at this point, like, why is russia still allowed to run awol on the internet at this point after the 2016 elections
from emu to desu desu desu.
can't beat memes with the largest shitposter population?
No, please don't! How would I access my obvious botnets disguised as illegal anime/cartoon streaming websites if Russia was firewalled?
So many reasons why this is a bad idea I could hardly begin to list them. For one it would only harm legitimate users and businesses
The internet shitposting kings of the world are not prepared for meme warfare? What the fuck are they playing at
Offence is the best defence.
We need the great firewall of chi- I mean Australia, haha memes will soon be dead.
Tell him he's dreaming
Dude just take all the memes and flip them upside down. Done. Australia is the memest country in existence.
fukken nah cunts i wouldn't be suprised if aussies challenged russians to shitposting duels
I find it funny how you can get people to like your shit by just making it about Jesus and about "do this if you believe!!"
It's almost like religious people are gullible.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/170/995/3d1.png Photo from the great Australian Meme War - 2049 (partly colorized)
then a bear vs kangaroo fight.
I highly doubt that if there is Russian interference with our Election, that it will majorly sway votes like with America. The only party I can think that has a chance of being ties with Russia is One Nation, and they're already a laughing stock of this nation. So the next party up is the Liberals and that party will most likely win anyway but not due to Russian interference.
Fukkin yeah nah mate
There's a difference between memes and shitposting, even if shitposting often uses memes. Also the general Aussie public aren't the ones doin the hardcore shitposting , that's the Aussie elites.
I'm honestly just kind of shocked Russia hasn't gotten more of an ass kicking financially. I understand not hurting the people but at a certain point, Putin just doesn't fucking care.
Those who work in the shadows, shitposting from beyond the public eye to wage war on all the internet. Listen carefully and you may just hear a distant 'yeah nah' echo through the darkened halls of their domain.
Only Clive can save us now (Though seriously fuck that guy)
im p sure the only thing clive can save is his own ballsack from a deck chair. (Though seriously he's a rural conservative trying to make his own party and isn't using a hate-fueled propaganda machine, hate to say it but that's not gonna work anymore. At least Xenophon was a racism borderpost and Katter's too cute to hate)
This is the man that is building a Titanic 2
This is the same garbage fire of a idea my mother keeps coming back to about once a week. Here's why- Russian Trolls are funded and supported, any block wouldn't be evaded The only people that would be censored by it would be innocent Russian citizens, making it harder for them to reach out to the world at large Russia would, justifiable, use such a firewall to cry Russiaphobia and further distamce themselves from the west.
Russians merely adopted meme warfare. Aussies were born in it, moulded by it. They didn't see the light until Westerners were already asleep
The internet really is a wild-west of the modern age. You can go in, make your own way, play for country, or play for profit. Along the way comes the influences left on what is, in the grand scale of things, the nascent form of what will become an integral part of human life - the internet - more so than even now. People will look back on this age as an untamed time where shit-posters exchanged memes, hackers exchanged hacks, and people mined bitcoin for all it was worth. "It was a simpler and more romantic time" they will say.
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