In Sweden a TV news station exposed a troll farm run by the far right party. I’d say that counts.
In Norway, NRK started a misinformation campaign in a local school to influence the school election to show how easy it was.
It was not well received
Mr Robot kinda fits with China being the big baddie.
The oligarchy run media are very much part of the problem so looking to them for solutions is pointless.
A drama like right now about Russians trying to influence world politics? And US elections? I’m not sure if it would be brilliant and we’d be all over it or if we’re so sick of hearing about it that we wouldn’t watch it
I was thinking Chris Hansen style reverse cat fishing.
Edit: “UwU I’m 35 y/o incel. Won’t someone come to my chat room and propagandize me UwU.”
No pun intended, catfishing had had a hook. You had someone that had wrapped up their lives and or a serious amount of money into someone there was an emotional angle. Most of the trolls don’t really have any belief in what they’re saying and it most their drawing people out to fight with them. Definitely a shower thought.
How about a Silicon Valley-like comedy except at a Russian troll farm.
“Fuck you, Guilfoylevich!”
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“Lioness” with Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman is a weird combination of spec ops porn and Left politics.
“Lioness” refers to a CIA program to target the wives/sisters/daughters of major terrorists. Kidman runs Saldana who in turn runs the teams on the ground. Their latest target is top financier of terror and his daughter is getting married soon…
In one episode Kidman tells Saldana that the West’s leaders are too stupid and cowardly to get us off the oil habit.
The Americans was 5 (I think) glorious seasons of undercover KGB agents in the US.
It’s not TV’s responsibility to teach.
I’m not asking to be educated. I’m demanding to be entertained!
That show would be boring.
I remember reading about digital warfare and how the character of different weaponry can be stabilising or destabilising.
So the example given was nuclear weapons. The consequences of using them are so disastrous that there is no good use case, and so they tend to be stabilising. They discourage use.
Digital warfare is destabilising, because it’s very easy to do and very hard to catch, so you’re better off using it, even without any declared war.
Information warfare is probably very similar, it encourages use, but that’s because it’s very low-stakes. It wouldn’t be very exciting. I imagine it’d make a better comedy than a drama.
Didn’t South Park do something like this?
I agree. “Q: Into the Storm” is the only thing that addresses part of it (that I’m aware of).
I think I saw that episode of night court guest starting Yakov Smirnoff
