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#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
Lex Fridman Podcast
Control of Negative Information on the Internet
Scientology was so infatuated with trying to control the information. They just it's just hopeless these days. The scale is not there, but actually I'm very surprised how bot forms can be at a very small scale. If you just pay 100 people just spread narratives. And nobody knows what is true. That bot farms can do, but actually really nicely control a narrative. It's hard. To create chaos, it's easier to say like, you know, do PR control is very hard. So especially on the internet, especially when the critical eye is there, the internet can smell bogus. This is one of the reasons I decided to upload every day for the last
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