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A dating app.

Track which people have contagious diseases and subtly push them toward others. Use GPS, biometric data and consumer profiles. Program bot accounts to set up dates with real people in public places, the hookups are fake, but they just need to be in the vicinity.

Once a sustantial data pool has been filled and patterns have been established, begin intentionally infecting the swingiest people on the app with a custom virus. Create a matchmaker algorithm based on the data to see how far and wide it can spread.

Call the app: Cuntagion.

"masks restrict my freedom" & "vaccines cause autism" are a good start

Being the person in control of the Twitter, YouTube, TikTok algorithms i think can manipulate people on an efficient manner

By spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines.

TikTok challenge

"You're not a real man unless you drink unfiltered stagnant pond water."

Anti-vax rhetoric, while promoting vitamin supplements and anti-parasite drugs. You could also come out against any existing mitigation efforts (masks, quarantines) as anti- American.

Gaslighting

E-girl bath water

Organize "pox parties" on Facebook; don't attend.

Rupert Murdoch

However they did it in WOW

Basilisk. A memetic kill-code embeded in an image that shuts off the brain.

Memes

Ads.

Asking for a friend?

How long until someone publishes inputs for LLMs on the web which are designed to put back doors into them?

Do you think you could craft a set of inputs which could be used to subtly backdoor key bits of code generated by LLMs?

Host a meetup of any reasonably-large online community somewhere. I'm part of a gaming community of about 300 members, mostly from around the US, but also there are members on every continent except Antarctica. We have people in China, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, all over Europe especially central and western, but also in Russia, etc. We do one big meetup every year in Texas (and a couple smaller regional ones in Europe and Australia), people come from all over the world for it, so it'd be a great way to spread something like that. it does have its downsides of course: these are gamers so they're generally not outgoing types, it's a small group so it'd be easy to back-trace if you caught it quickly, etc. But it's a lot more reliable than just spreading disinformation online in the hopes that it gets noticed and acted upon.