India, Pakistan attempted to interfere in Canada's elections: CSIS
In the case of the 2019 election, CSIS said the Canadian government conducted what it called a "threat reduction measure" ahead of the vote, meant to "reduce the foreign interference threat posed by the Government of Pakistan."
"The situation was monitored and assessed to have effectively reduced the threat of interference," CSIS wrote.
Another step is severely beefed-up policing of political content. Although I'm critical of its use, #AI could, in this case, be used to pre-screen all #SM content. "Problematic" contents and accounts (tbd) would be evaluated by a likewise beefed-up #CyberPolice force, to be either forwarded to the prosecution or to the #CyberWarfare command/ #CyberIntelligence agents or discarded.
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Sometimes, briefly, I miss my days as an influencer online. That was never my plan, but as you know, the former Twitter used Algorithms. The more engagement you made, the higher your presence became. My followers have always been higher than the amount I follow. The more I follow, the less I see, caught up in a fast moving stream of (mostly garbage) ReTweets. #ENGAGEMENT is not Boosting or Liking, it's responding, dialogue, comments, and conversation. #Influencer#Klout#Twitter#Gifts#Thread
#PERKS were the reward for your influence. Those ReTweets of no value, like RT "Hi Frank" might boost your presence in the Algorithm but didn't make you an #Influencer . You got that by generating carefully curated content, filling all the white space in your posts, with relevant content.
I was a #News hound. As a result of some PC/Internet skills, I could pull news from the internet faster than reporters could.
Everyone knows I have #ADHD, right? And that I am a Critical Thinker? I like to try new things:
While others were Retweeting every post (and getting blocked for flooding my timeline) I was spending twenty minutes, squeezing a carefully curated post into 140 characters (old Twitter)
My screen name was consistent across the internet on every platform @NovaScotiaRasta but that with RT used 19 characters of 140. YIKES! Shortened it to @NSRasta #KLOUT#trends#SM#Thread#CriticalThinking#Analysis
And in the early morning hours each day, I'd observe and study the big guys, the top news source, the top Social Media presenter, and also learn how to spot fakes, bots, and find where the Russian Troll Bots were using phrases and #spam across Twitter, in the good old days, when you could report that, and it disappeared instantly.
Now, and before, it became a toxic dump of Porn, Crypto & Misinformation. I did my best, but that's not enough #bots#FakeAccounts#KLOUT#trends#SM#Analysis
About those #PERKS : I'll speak a moment about #Neutrogena ™️ Skin Care products. Aren't they great? But, expensive. I'm retired, my pension even dropped a few years back. I struggle like you do. I don't BUY the products this expensive. But we got BOXES of every product, hundreds of dollars each month in the Mail. https://www.neutrogena.ca/
They cannot ASK you to discuss them: they hope you will, because you are an #Influencer
My wife loved these, yearly supply of everything #KLOUT#trends#SM
My wife got a year's supply of #Shick Lady Shavers and products. Her legs feel so soft <sigh> And her skin so soft and fragrant, thanks to Neutrogena.
I got all those, just having fun, and using Twitter properly, long before Nazis took over. https://schick.ca/collections/womens-razors-trimmers
Every other day, I was surprised to find my mailbox stuffed with free products. Not those mini-sample bottles, the FULL MONTY
Next, I went to Instagram to build a bit of presence. #PERKS#Neutrogena#Influencer#KLOUT#trends#SM
I'm a little behind: If you knew me on Twitter, you know how I am, but my second account was smaller. I didn't want another huge account.
You can't escape #Politics, it affects us all.
BUT, this is not a POLITICAL account. Nor should there be one, #SM isn't all about one subject? Got #Cat? Got #Art?
If that's all you're about, why would I follow you? Won't make you seen here. But you hope I will boost you?
Use #AltText if you want your work shared.
& FFS #TALK!! #SocialMedia#Mastodon
Posts often are missed in #Mastodon .
There's no algorithms to push you to the top of people's' view, while replying and posting, 1000 new posts pass by unread.
This would be a good time to point out the Value of #Hashtags : before #Facebook used them, I did. Understandably many use them incorrectly. #SM
BTW, don't take me as an authority on anything, without running it past the standard Judge Judy Smell Test. 😎 Maybe you don't think I know what I'm talking about? Show me your former Twitter following? Did you get gifts as an #influencer ?
I must be doing something right? I can duplicate the process, or teach you how, but let's forget about that toxic X sludge and learn where you are?
If you have to #Beg for #Followers, you're doing it wrong. Go back to Facebook. #SM#Tips#Begging = #Block
Many people say:
I DON'T WANT TO SEE POLITICS
Well I don't want to see just ART either.
I'm pleased you make money of #Art For Sale; I hope you do well, Can I help you get visibility to show it to a larger viewing audience than you have? Maybe learn how to post first? I'll help.
What separates your account from AI generated posts or photos? Is it a REAL person?
I wanted to try the default mastodon social instance to get the hang of it - and I know there’s all kind of specific-interest ones like for art, music, tech, games, etc. but does anyone out there have some recommendations for other decent, all-purpose ones?
(BTW: I was not criticizing your answer, quite the contrary (if you even had that impression, not sure.)
For me, #SM never had that illusion of a "whole picture." The corporate sites always had a certain, biased angle, based on the utility they provided (#Facebook - college girls' desirability, #Instagram - pictures / lifestyle in general, #LinkedIn - business contacts (originally.) -- A rather limited view of...
This fast-moving video clip in French explains very well how it all works to create a fake #SM account the content of which has mostly been #AI created, technically and economically.
As you might have learned, the #Fediverse is quite different from corporate #SM sites.
In particular, there's no automatic #algorithm. People are the algorithm.
As with moving to a new neighborhood, you need to engage a bit.
The first two steps are to create a relevant #bio, which you"ve done😁, and a pinned #introduction that you might (re)boost every week or so.
Here are some further tips to make this a worthwhile experience here:
Film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke has two excellent episodes in his #podcast series on the impact of #SocialMedia on society.
This is no easy listening, but chilling and enlightening.
S1E4 talks exactly about this issue: Should Society Own its Social Media
Groups is something I am missing on #Mastodon.
Too much "noise" w/o them w/ growing numbers of contacts.
Humans organize in "clubs" in RL, so this is needed on #SM as well.
MDMRN Twin 1: Are they supposed to be fighting people?
MDMRNia: What's the word for after the world ends?
Me: Post-apocalyptic?
MDMRNia: Yea, that. This video is like that.
MDMRNia: Why are they saying "Ooooh" in the background the whole time? Also, why is there a man's voice every now and then? Who is that supposed to be?
MDMRN Twin 1: What is actually happening besides dancing?