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Fifteen Years Later, Mainstream Analysis Begins to Adopt Our Meme Approach

By Daily Bell Staff – June 06, 2016

What is memetic warfare and how it threats democratic values?  …  One of the contributors of Defense Strategic Communications journal issued by NATO Stratcom COE, Jeff Giesea defines memetic warfare as “competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. One might think of it as a subset of ‘information operations’ tailored to social media. Information operations involve the collection and dissemination of information to establish a competitive advantage over an opponent”. -European Endowment for Democracy

This is a terrific article that tells us how propaganda has evolved in the Internet era.

We are especially pleased with the article because it features “memes” – a concept that The Daily Bell helped pioneer some 15 years ago.

Our idea then, as now, was that…