The media strategy to "flood the zone with shit" that Steve Bannon said got Trump elected has since been weaponized against the Me Too movement, often by the same people using the same strategies. It's a hallmark of our social and traditional media ecosystem spitfirenews.com/p/flooding-t... - ThreadSky

kattenbarge.bsky.social • 58 days ago

The media strategy to "flood the zone with shit" that Steve Bannon said got Trump elected has since been weaponized against the Me Too movement, often by the same people using the same strategies. It's a hallmark of our social and traditional media ecosystem
https://spitfirenews.com/p/flooding-the-zone-against-blake-lively

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humoristguy.bsky.social•58 days ago

Depends on how you define “working”

ab621.bsky.social•58 days ago

The worst are filled with passionate intensity and the best lack all conviction

kattenbarge.bsky.social•58 days ago

This is part two of my three-part series for @spitfirenews.com about Blake Lively, misogyny, and media manipulation. You can sign up for free to get this series in your inbox or upgrade to support my journalism, join the conversation, and read my paywalled stories. https://spitfirenews.com/upgrade

sophiaflorence.bsky.social•58 days ago

I was just telling my partner about you having covered this story and the Amber Heard one in the past! Glad to see you're still on this beat, I feel like it's more important than so many people realize.

kattenbarge.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you so much!! I definitely agree

sophiaflorence.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you for doing the coverage and giving me something to share! Myself and my podcast co-hosts did a series on how the harassment campaign against Anita Sarkeesian led to GamerGate which led to PizzaGate which led to QAnon which led to the Groomer Panic, and I felt like Charlie Day doing the

sophiaflorence.bsky.social•58 days ago

Pepe Silvio bit, but I feel like I've been pretty vindicated lately. Like it's just the engineering process of scale-up done to social engineering. Sucks that so many engineers don't pay attention to social issues, because it's easy to unwind, I think.

thebystander99.bsky.social•58 days ago

I second that all of that! And would extend that sentiment to your coverage of the Tory Lanez trial—lots of unfortunate looming significance in the strategy embraced in the swell of online attacks there, too

kattenbarge.bsky.social•58 days ago

100%, and it gets downplayed and ignored because of misogynoir

thebystander99.bsky.social•58 days ago

No question

larryhook.bsky.social•58 days ago

That’s an insightful point. The tactic of overwhelming the discourse with misinformation, distractions, and bad-faith arguments has been used to discredit and exhaust movements like Me Too. It thrives in an environment where outrage and confusion drown out accountability.

thirteeneleven.bsky.social•58 days ago

Exactly.

cecilianemo.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yep. I keep telling anyone who will listen that the Depp-Heard trial was a practice run for the right in advance of both more harassment campaigns and election propaganda. This is just more evidence.

loydj77.bsky.social•58 days ago

The fact that Trump is an unrepentant adjudicated sex abuser of women--he admitted on tape how he assaulted women by just kissing or grabbing them by the va-jay-jay--and our country voted him as president, speaks volumes about what people care about.

silverliningguy.bsky.social•58 days ago

Flood the zone, is that a term for swaying public opinion with artificial anger or opinions? I’m not familiar with it but contextually that’s my assumption.

gothamlesbian.bsky.social•58 days ago

Basically they were able to manipulate the media as part of their pr strategy beforehand, and that’s why the coverage is so unbalanced. Kat explains it way better though…

warrgrinn.bsky.social•58 days ago

My. god. The insidiousness of all of it. Remember when journalism was all about the sanctity of the truth, just like law? It's all narrative control and sleight of hand (word). How do these people sleep or raise kids? Ugh.

larose59.bsky.social•58 days ago

I've seen it here shared by well known faces

gia-dea.bsky.social•58 days ago

Sad and depressing. Thanks for trying to expose the truth

maxtwang.bsky.social•58 days ago

Who the hell is Blake Lively

gothamlesbian.bsky.social•58 days ago

Spouse of Ryan Reynolds.

maxtwang.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ah ok, what’s the brouhaha?

candyisdandy100.bsky.social•58 days ago

This is a big story and so relevant! And I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan (I actually read and remember the antebellum blog post.) But it is what it is, an artificially driven media circus.

kattenbarge.bsky.social•58 days ago

I completely agree with you. In the final part of this series I plan to talk about this a little more in depth. Her privilege includes this legacy of anti-Blackness. And other people (who are also anti-Black) try to use that as a shield for their own misogyny and profit

candyisdandy100.bsky.social•58 days ago

Oh excellent. I can’t wait to read it. She’s not a perfect victim but that rarely exists. They did retaliate and that’s what matters here. I will go back and read your first two instalments, I enjoyed the third. Thank you

candyisdandy100.bsky.social•58 days ago

Oh my apologies. I just read part two, will read part one now. Looking forward to three.

kattenbarge.bsky.social•58 days ago

No worries at all and thank you for reading!!

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