• manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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    there were a number of university experiments on human choice often dealing with a disparity of information between the parties.

    What was learned by the US government in its testing was also known. The reality is experiments like these were done very heavily up until the 60’s with the vast majority getting nixed by the early-to-late 70s

    this coincides also with our release of mental patients which were as much experiment subjects as they were patients. We were mapping out people’s behavior to information stimulus for most of the 20th century.

    the programs were all stopped but the information continued on and is used in many strata of our lives.

    https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0by2ybb/mk-ultra-the-cia-s-secret-pursuit-of-mind-control-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

    Subliminal Marketing (one of many techniques) is banned however use of the technique in other mediums is not. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-subliminal-marketing-69892.html

    With regards to international actors and thier domestic collaborators, check into Foundations of Geopolitics. Its a playbook being followed.

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      I don’t think the SPE is that good a reference, and also not super meaningful to this sort of case of Internet manipulation anyway. Look at the amount of points showing it was basically not a normal experiment but predetermined to act out how the PI wanted - in that wikipedia link.

      My understanding of MK Ultra was basically the government wasted a lot of money because of fear of missing out vs the Soviets. It didn’t accomplish anything.

      And subliminal marketing has been widely debunked to my knowledge. People thought it might do something, but experimentally it didn’t.

      I would have pointed to disinformation campaigns myself - there is research that implies it works.

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      That geopolitics book is buy some Russian guy right? I’ve heard that it’s literally being played out even though it was written a long time ago

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        printed in the early 80s, written by the man who is considered the grandfather of the current Russian’ govt’s ideology and “plan”

        he has the ear of putin, or did.

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          Is that the guy that Adam Curtis talked about in Hypernormalisation?