Mood Alteration as Early Warning

Whenever we feel this sense, our mood being altered by a meme, that should be our first indication that something funny is going on. And something potentially bad is going on. So with the Alaska thing and basically, well, by now we know that anything emanating from MAGA, Donald, or any of those people around him, like Lindsey Graham and all that, whenever they affect our mood positively, we need to be on guard. Yeah. And usually when they affect us negatively, that is when we should do our best in avoiding amplifying the nonsense.

Source: Alaska trolls and how to use the ‘Timeline of Emotions’ model to parse Disinfolklore

The practical heuristic: mood alteration is the early warning system of the Way of Seeing. If you FEEL your mood changing in response to a meme, that is the signal to raise your Troll Radar. The counter-intuitive twist: positive mood changes from MAGA are MORE dangerous than negative ones.

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