redbent's definitions

Social Media Dirty Bomb

A strategy of Social Media influencers to drop trails of bad information and or conspiracy theories to try to gain traction and a following. The goal to go viral with retweets spreading misinformation causing confusion while dog whistling to like minded people and groups. Posts also attempt to connect different conspiracy theories to gain legitimacy.

Tactic of Troll Farms.

While scrolling through twitter i stumbled across a Social media dirty bomb about russian carrots, american potatoes, and a false missile alert, the bots must be on crack.

by redbent January 14, 2019