Networked Propaganda

Networked Propaganda
Research Cost: 10000
Summary
We study ways to shape public opinion in the Internet's many-speak-to-many environment.
Description
If not controlling, then at least influencing hearts and minds is a growing necessity in this most turbulent of ages. With old loyalties transformed and new sympathies forged by the alien arrival, international borders - or indeed planetary ones - simply will not present any barrier whatsoever to the spreading of a message. The advent of cybernetics offers startling opportunities in this field too - we are now testing experimental new implants that entirely remove the old need for devices and screens and cables, enabling the near-instantaneous sending and receipt of messages and videos to anyone, anywhere. The potential for organizing movements, for crowd-sourced initiatives and for the mass coordination of aid to people in need is endless, but so too is the potential for exploitation. Not simply in terms of marketing and advertising - there are those who would use it to slowly, perniciously bend others to their will, to encourage coups or to destabilize their opponents through sustained, direct-to-the-senses misinformation campaigns. But this new era of mass communication is a genie that cannot be returned to its bottle - to the victor, the spoils.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Biotechnology 1500 We Are Not Alone 500 Arrival Psychology 5000 Space Medicine 2500 Arrival Mass Communications 5000 Mission To Space 250 Arrival Sociology 2500 Cybernetics 5000 Space Research 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	0		16500
	9000		0
	0		10500
	250	Total	36250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(50%)Networked Psyops • (100%)Total War Framing • (100%)Loyalty Training • (40%)Social Media Campaigns • (100%)Communications Hub
Unlocks Orgs
Org Stars Stats and Missions Bonuses and Resource Incomes Affinities and Requirements Purchase Cost Random Influence33 2 to 3 50%: 1 50%: 1 Public Campaign Increase Unrest Control Nation 20%: 1% to 2% 2% to 4% 20%: 1% to 4% 10% 6 to 10 4 to 8 10 to 20 Affinity: Networked Propaganda 2000 to 4000 10 to 20
Quote
"Fake news, misinformation ... It doesn't matter what they call it. The simple truth is that the powerful do it, and the powerless cry about it. And that is why the powerless will never, ever become the powerful. Chairman Soren Van Wyk, The Initiative During a billionaires-only clubhouse discussion
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