Algorithmic foreign policy influence?

Any academics have access to a good troll farm to increase social media influence?

Ideas in foreign and strategic policy are no longer formulated in academia and passed to the government in cheap lunchtime meetings or over stale coffee at poorly catered academic-government 1.5-track conferences. They rarely come from the lower echelons of the ministry and bubble up through the ranks, and for a good while, they haven’t made the circuitous route from frontline posts to the ministry and then up the ranks to the minister.

No. Our ideas behind foreign and strategic policy today largely come from two sources: thinktanks and influencers - both of whom rely upon social media algorithms to influence and persuade.

Our ideas are shaped — often distorted — in real time across social media feeds governed by algorithms that reward outrage, certainty, and emotion over context, complexity, and nuance. In this new environment, the algorithm doesn’t merely transmit information about international affairs; it reframes them, amplifies certain voices, buries others, and increasingly dictates what the public — and by extension, policymakers — believe to be true.