43 Control of public opinion
In the eyes of many people, online public opinion is a plate of scattered sand, which can only change at will according to the preferences of the people, and it is impossible to be controlled by others. If someone forcibly bans certain speech, it will only increase the attention of the banned message. On the other hand, if someone makes a big deal about something, it may provoke resistance among the people. Therefore, it is almost impossible to truly and effectively control public opinion.
However, in Etlord's opinion, what "public opinion is uncontrollable." Justice is at ease in people's hearts. The truth is in the hands of the majority. The views of the likes are shallow and obscurant. Because, most people in this world don't have the opportunity to really have the full and true information about things that have a big impact, and therefore, they can't be expected to make the right judgments.
Etlord's idea is not due to overconfidence. A few decades ago, like many people, he believed that in the age of the Internet, no one could hide the truth all the time, and no one could successfully deceive the public for a long time.
However, the experience of the past few decades has made Etlord deeply realize that in the Internet era, because everyone has the right to publish information on the Internet, the information compiled by everyone has the possibility of being widely disseminated on the Internet and regarded as the truth; As a result, the interference and distortion encountered in the process of disseminating real information has increased unabated compared with other eras in human history.
In the Internet age, where all kinds of information are dazzling, it is far easier to use fake news to sway people's judgment than to use real news to win people's trust. Therefore, compared with before the advent of the Internet, people are not better at distinguishing right from wrong and resisting well-planned scams in the Internet era.
Therefore, after the leaders completed the press conference on the resurrection of the dead, Etlord asked the artificial intelligence system in the supercomputer to start monitoring online public opinion, and selected from them with high communication potential and opinions that matched almost all of his own commentaries, interviews and analytical articles, and promoted them. At the same time, try to keep views that are not conducive to your own plans from entering the eye.
Under the influence of the artificial intelligence system, the online articles selected by Etlord soon became the most searched for terms related to the "World Science and Technology Summit Explosion" on the Internet, with the highest search priority and popularity, and then became the most mainstream online public opinion.
With the spread of these entries, many people began to believe that the incredible thing of aliens to save the leader who had been attacked by a terrorist attack was indeed true.
The preference of online public opinion soon affected governments as well. It didn't take long for many countries that had previously remained silent to say that they would hold further press conferences as soon as possible after the leaders in distress returned home, rather than publicly questioning the veracity of the president's resurrection.
However, just as everything was going according to Etlord's vision, a video of Lili suddenly appeared and quickly attracted a lot of popularity, causing the artificial intelligence system of the surveillance network to issue an early warning and ask Etlord for approval.
Originally, the AI system would have targeted information that was not conducive to the Etlord project to varying degrees. For unfavorable information with less potential impact and less dissemination, the AI system will reduce its ranking in the relevant search list of search engines; Information with greater impact and potentially greater impact will be blocked in a targeted manner.
When a message is blocked, the publisher of the online message will not find out that the message sent is blocked, but the information will not be seen by anyone other than the publisher himself.
However, with the sharp increase in the popularity of Zhu Xingle's live video, the netizens who asked him to explain the actual situation of the science and technology summit site in detail in the live broadcast, as well as asked him what he thought about the explosion, the resurrection of the head of the dead, etc., began to become more and more, thus triggering the early warning of the artificial intelligence system.
Faced with this unexpected situation, Etlord, who had sent an emergency security robot to secretly protect Lili, did not immediately order an intervention in the live broadcast, but listened to Zhu Xingle's revelations about Derek with great interest, and did not decide whether to do anything to Zhu Xingle.
Etlord is reluctant to intervene in Zhu Xingle's live broadcast, firstly, because the ratings of this live broadcast show are extremely high, once he intervenes, although with the leading technical level of the artificial intelligence system used by Etlord, there is no risk of being exposed, but it will inevitably bring more doubts to Lili, and it will cause more problems. Second, Zhu Xingle's live broadcast, in fact, will not have an impact on Etlord's plan, and even increases people's attention to the series of events of the science and technology summit, which provides help for the implementation of Etlord's plan from the side.
However, as Zhu Xingle began to shift the object of revelations from Derek to Lili, Etlord, who had listened to Zhu Xingle and others on the same plane with Lili, soon realized that Zhu Xingle's endless revelations actually risked affecting his plans. So, he still decided to interfere with the live broadcast. It's just that before he gave the order, someone had already taken the lead and suspended Zhu Xingle's live broadcast of Lili on his behalf.