Social Media Mesh Network

Motive

US To Suppress Mass Social Media

• Chilling Effects: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1nfyy6h/charlie_kirks_allies_warn_americans_mourn_him/
  • At least 13 people fired or suspended for allegedly disrespecting Kirk's memory
  • Online campaigns directed by Republicans continue to target Kirk's critics online
• Actual Suppression

  • U.S. lawmaker Clay Higgins said in a post on X, opens new tab that anyone who "ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man" needed to be "banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER."

  • The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on the same site that he had been disgusted to "see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event, and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action."

PysOps / LLMs Infecting Mass Social Media

• Mass social media is an attractive feeding ground for psyops.
• Mass social media makes it hard/impossible to distinguish real from fake.

Means

Instead of a giant open space that reaches everyone, operate it more like a mesh network with pods of people.

• Pods being people who know each other IRL combats LLM infection.
• Mesh network of overlapping pods allows propagation.
• Mesh network resists suppression.
• IRL secondary channel further resists suppression.
• Varying levels of security / privacy allow more frank discussion.
  • Think of the US Presidents who have stated that absolute secrecy regarding their conversations with their cabinet is necessary to frank discussion.

Opportunity

• Norm-driven "have you built your social mesh network?"
• Disgust "are you still listening to the mass social networks? Ewww."