Berke Alikasifoglu
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Berke Alikasifoglu
@berkealikasif.bsky.social
Senior Analyst at BLOOM (bloomsocialanalytics.com)

Computational propaganda and info ops geek by day, Star Wars nerd by night
Chinese users on this new platform are echoing these reflections by Americans. I don't know if this is a targeted operation from China, or, more likely, just impromptu humor, but that is besides the point. 6/9
January 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
What is also subtly problematic — and here I’m putting my party pooper hat on — is that Chinese users on the platform are welcoming the arrival of American users with memes like: “I’m a Chinese secret agent here to steal your data.” These memes are being shared on US Instagram and Twitter, 4/9
January 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
With the increasingly real possibility of a widespread ban on TikTok (the Senate’s deadline being just a few days away), Americans are starting to look for alternatives and are discovering RedNote (Xiaohongshu), a platform inspired by Pinterest/Instagram. 2/9
January 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I am become Wordle bot, the destroyer of records
December 14, 2024 at 1:58 PM
I refuse to join bluesky --- I don't want to become part of a gecko chamber
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 AM
What's hilarious to me is the non political content (pics 3&4). So folks, Russians are doing pro-oral sex propaganda in West Africa. They are teaching, through AI generated videos, how to go down on a woman. I didn't know what to do with this info and now you don't either. Ha! 2/3
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Look at this and tell me the Russians don't have a sense of humor 💀
Came across this pro-Russian YouTube account targeting West African audiences the other day. Videos are fully AI generated avatar images and voice overs (pics 1&2), promoting AES and bashing France & the West (nothing new here) 1/3
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 AM