Caroline Orr Bueno
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Caroline Orr Bueno
@rvawonk.bsky.social
Yep, it’s me! Mother, Wife, Asst. Research Scientist. Studying cyberpsychology, cognitive security, disinformation. “Epistemic Superpredator.” I write things here: https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com
Per CNN, police believe the Emory shooter targeted the CDC because he was sick or thought he was sick “and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine.”

And this is why we keep telling you that anti-vax conspiracy theories are dangerous.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
August 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Algorithms are not inherently good or bad; they take on the properties of the code that humans write, but apply it at a scale that humans are not capable of.

We won’t win this game. And when we lose, the cost will be control over our own minds.
August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Algorithms serve up content you like b/c they know that’s how they can hook you and get you to keep clicking, keep scrolling, and keep making them more money. They’re like digital drug dealers — and I’d argue that the effects are more insidious and corrosive than actual drugs.
August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is the first piece of advice I offer in the survival guide for resisting algorithmic tyranny. Until you learn the difference between entertainment and education vs covert psychological manipulation, you will remain a slave to the algorithm.

Learn the difference. Act on it.
August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Let’s be clear: Reverse algorithmic capture isn’t a policy debate about platform bias. It’s a strategy designed & rolled out by the Trump admin to realign the rules of information visibility in favor of those in power, using regulatory levers to reprogram epistemic systems.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are witnessing the emergence of a privatized information infrastructure that serves public ideological aims without invoking the First Amendment—or admitting the state’s hand. It’s being done by rebranding algorithmic power as populist reform.

Hi, Bannon.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In the name of fighting censorship, the Trump administration is shaping digital ecosystems to favor its preferred narratives while chilling dissent. It is a form of soft epistemic authoritarianism—and we all (I hope) know what comes next.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Interestingly (to me at least), this set of tactics actually mirrors in some ways a Russian disinfo tactic called reflexive control. Though there are some key differences, what Trump is doing is basically forcing platform decisions by manipulating the choice architecture.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
That’s not even close to all of it. We have also seen companies like YouTube & Facebook respond to the Trump admin’s false claims of censorship by scrapping their own content moderation practices, which almost always benefits right wing media outlets & commentators.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In a new EO, Trump codified this process of reverse algorithmic capture by forcing any company that wants to do business now or in the future with the federal government to implement standards to reduce “bias“ — which includes not mentioning things like diversity and equity.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These algorithms are essentially unseen curators of reality. They decide what content you see or don’t see; what creators you see or don’t see; what ads you get served; what your Google results look like when you search for anything from restaurants to personal health questions.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This practice of reverse algorithmic capture has already been written into policy and is affecting the algorithms that shape everything from search results to feed curation to ad targeting, to content moderation on platforms.

It’s affecting you. Probably more than you realize.
August 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As I wrote, the revolution isn’t “coming.” It’s here. Your only options now are to start fighting now to maintain your cognitive freedom, or start fighting later to try to get back. If you can.

Full article is here: open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
July 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If we don’t have control over the information we see; if we don’t even understand why we’re seeing it; if our institutions are in the pockets of the companies doing this to us; if we’re not even allowed to see our own data or what’s being done with it … then what rights do we have at all?
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tyranny today is packaged as convenience, security, protection, & connection. It’s ubiquitous & your consent is often required to gain access to even basic services — which is not really consent at all. It’s coercion.

The goal is to embed into so many systems that it’s impossible to get rid of.
July 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Tyranny doesn’t look like it did in years past. Most of the time, it’s invisible until it’s too late. We have to become masters of adversarial tactics. And we have to become experts at identifying our own vulnerabilities — b/c if we don’t, then our adversaries will become experts at exploiting them.
July 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hello.
April 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Generally, those who believe that getting vaccinated is a personal choice are also those who claim to value personal responsibility and abhor free-riding — yet by choosing not to get vaccinated, you are, indeed, free-riding off the rest of us.
April 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When you tell people that vaccination is an individual choice, they don’t think about how their decision will impact the most vulnerable members of our society – the ones who can’t speak up and say how unfair it is that they have to suffer for someone else’s “individual choice“.
April 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM