Meme Division Resources
Social media is absolutely not exploitable in any way at all :^)
This is blog # 6 in a series of blogs about 4chan trolling tactics during the 2016 election. View the entire series here.
The Meme Division Resources pastebin dated September 5, 2016 is a list of resources including links to all previous pastebins, several “memetic warfare albums” that presumably contained memes (all are now offline) and meme templates without text.
Meme Division Resources also contains some interesting “PSYOPS RESOURCES” to learn about activism, organizing, manipulating narratives, cyber and memetic warfare. For example:
The 1994 “Meme, Counter-meme” article by Mike Godwin:
Publications recommended by CANVAS (the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) formerly known as OTPOR, which as described on its website “operates a network of international trainers and consultants with experience of successful democratic movements”
A 250 page manual of US Army psychological operations process tactics and techniques:
A “nice easy readable introduction to cyber warfare”:
A folder on file sharing website Mega called “Dr. Finklestein’s meme compodium” which contains various PDF files...
Contents of the main folder include: Changing Images of Man (link to PDF hosted at Internet Archive), Edward Bernay’s 1928 book Propaganda (PDF), Memetic Magic by R. Kirk Packwood (PDF) and The Art of Memetics, The Magic of Applying Memetics, Marketing, Masterminding & Cybernetic Theory by Edward Wilson and Wes Unruh.
Related:
The amount of research available on memetic warfare in the context of national defense is vast, and not just from the US military. Further down, 4chan trolls linked psyop resources from GCHQ as well.
A slideshow of 18 slides with 24 “politically incorrect” books on each, over 400 total book collections posted from September 2015 to February 2018 covering subject matter you can expect from /pol/:
The “Step by step how to manipulate narratives” is a link to Cryptome that contains various other resources available via PDF such as GCHQ Full-Spectrum Cyber Effects, GCHQ Online Deception techniques, the GCHQ DISRUPTION Operational Playbook, and a “precursor to this sabotage” the OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual (OSS later became the CIA).
And finally, The Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies:
Every resource a swarm of anonymous trolls waging a meme war during an election would need is linked in these pastebins where they could easily access or copy-paste to 4chan threads, reddit, etc. Notwithstanding some of the far right content, this is an impressive collection of open source resources on memetic warfare.
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