China was one of the incubators for narrative shaping and control via the Internet. It's why Google was so eager to do business with them. (after an initial pretense of "oh we shouldn't help the CCP, should we? do we dare? oh alright what could it hurt!!")
I think every institution is starting to develop it as a tactic. It's why the internet is becoming less and less useful.
I think we're way past the 'starting to' phase. Look at China's social credit scoring system.
China was one of the incubators for narrative shaping and control via the Internet. It's why Google was so eager to do business with them. (after an initial pretense of "oh we shouldn't help the CCP, should we? do we dare? oh alright what could it hurt!!")
China: 50 Cent Army.
Act.IL: 50 Shekel Army.