Being Aware Of Psychological Warfare

Psychological warfare has been used for years. But it is becoming more noticeable today. We need to learn to recognize it and not be deceived.

Psychological warfare today, primarily manifest through online manipulation, using social media platforms to spread misinformation, propaganda, and decisive rhetoric, aim to influence, public opinion, undermine trust in situations and so discord among populations, often employed by governments and political actors to achieve strategic goals, with “bot farms that coordinate disinformation campaigns and targeted harassment.

This not only happened to social media. We can look at any news network and see it clearly.

Deliberately spreading false or misleading information, to manipulate public perception on issues like elections, political events, or social crises.

Usually automated accounts (bots) to amplify certain natives, create fake friends, and harass decent voices.

It uses exaggerating difference’s between groups to create division and prevents constructive dialogue. I believe that it’s why we are so divided today on our beliefs.

Taylor messages to specific demographics based on our interest and all mine behavior maximizes the propaganda they spread.

They use cyber harassment and doxing to harass people and public exposure of personal information to intimidate individuals or groups.

They create realistic, but fabricated videos to spread faults information and damage reputations of people.

This is an old age weapon that began in World War I. Search propaganda is generally intended to demoralize the enemy, to break his wheel to fight or resist, and sometimes to render him favorably disposed to one position.

Although this has been going on since since World War I, psychological warfare goes back to Cyrus the great who employed it against Babylon, Xeroxes against the Greeks and Philip II of Macedonia against Athens. 

Not many people are aware of this tactic, so it makes it easy to implement on people. AI generated images have become a new form of propaganda.

Propaganda or psychological warfare is the dissemination of information it uses facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths, or lies to influence public opinion. And it’s also also used through mass media.