About 45 Videoz
There is an article at the Brookings Institue written on July 26, 2022 called "Misinformation is eroding the public’s confidence in democracy" that opens with the following statement:
"Democracy in the United States is in serious trouble. A review of some recent public opinion research shows just how much."
We at 45 Videoz feel that this article is important and of significant value for all Americans to read because it comes in from an objective non-partisan, yet Patriotic, perspecitive. And this article makes several points that we hope this website can address and produce.
One of the Drivers...
From paragraph 4 of the above article, "One of the drivers of decreased confidence in the political system has been the explosion of misinformation deliberately aimed at disrupting the democratic process. This confuses and overwhelms voters. Throughout the 2020 election cycle, Russia’s cyber efforts and online actors were able to influence public perceptions and sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in voting, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of engaging in voter fraud. The “big lie” reinforced by President Trump about the 2020 election results amplified the Russian efforts and has lasting implications on voters’ trust in election outcomes."
Potential Solutions to this Growing Challenge to Democracy
Accoring to the article, "Darrell West, Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings, argues that the news media has a major role to play in combatting fake news and sophisticated disinformation campaigns. West argues that the government should invest in media literacy so that voters can identify false information and stop its spread."
"Here are some examples of ways to tackle this growing problem:""
- Myth Busting
- Combatting Misinformation
- Rapid Response Units
- News Literacy
Our Inspiration
Our inspiration to create this website to help in 'combatting fake news and sophisticated disinformation campaigns' are the Volunteer Drone Operators who have played a crucial role in defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion. These civilian pilots and enthusiasts have utilized commercially available drones to provide vital reconnaissance and intelligence, enabling the Ukrainian military to target Russian positions with greater accuracy. Additionally, some operators have modified their drones for combat, using them to drop explosives on enemy targets.
The efforts of these brave and patriotic volunteers have disrupted Russian supply lines, hampered troop movements, and helped to level the playing field in a conflict where Ukraine is significantly outnumbered and outgunned. The contributions of these volunteer drone operators highlight the democratization of warfare brought about by emerging technologies and the resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of aggression.
Imagine several thousand citizens on X and/or Facebook responding to election-related posts with their comments and hashtags able to add links to 45 Videoz "sixpacks" populating threads with short videos of the former president on a regular basis.
They would be providing video evidence of the former president's words, character, personality and intentions throughout social media combatting misinformation and disinformation allowing these videos to spread across numerous platforms. For example, every time someone comes across a post or comment that appears to be an inhuman bot they could respond with their opinion, a hashtag or few, and a sixpack link that they choose.
For example, the above video is a short two-minute video of the former president speaking about the offer for a second debate via CNN with Vice President Harris. We try to keep the videos short, leave commentary from pundits and hosts to a minimum, and put the videos out in a "sixpack" so the viewer who came followed the link on X or Facebook can quickly see a couple of more related videos. Here is a link to a "45 Does Insults" sixpack to get a feel for the current stock of HIMARS, we mean sixpacks, that we will be adding to through the 2024 election.
Digitial Costs & Revenue?
Notice that there are no advertising banners on the pages including this one. It typically takes three months to qualify for advertising revenue, and the election is less than two months away at the time of writing this About page. This is a problem because the host will charge us for delivering these sixpacks.
We are using Google to serve these pages because they can handle virtually any size traffic spike(s), e.g. tweets from persons with large followings like Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Cuban, Barack Obama, Justin Bieber, etc., and being the strongest server it is logical to conclude that they are not the cheapest for digital delivery.
And it is also logical to assume, therefore prepare for, that there is a strong possibility that the serveral thousand regular 'drone operators' could draw the attention of millions of people/downloads on a daily basis which could have a tangible positive effect on the outcome of the November election.
As valuable as this collection of sixpacks is to our country in this critical election up and down the ballot, it is not a good business venture in the typical historic fashion.
- Investors: We do not believe that it would be ethical or smart to invite wealthy people or businesses to finance a reserve fund for the anticipated digital costs which will start almost immediately. They most likely would want editorial control of content or might find a way to get it cancelled or we might get doxxed, and we prefer to remain anonymous.
- Cost Estimate: There is no way to predict or calculate what digital costs or revenue will be in the few months that this website will run but the common feeling is that it is and will be a valuable asset to combat many severe and long-running disinformation operations throughout the Internet.
- Optimization: We also chose to optimize the sixpacks for quicker delivery to the visitors, especially on smart phones as opposed to wifi. This means:
- the sixpacks are not created on the file by the server hitting the database and assembling the page for delivery.
- we chose to have all the sixpacks pre-rendered and lying in wait for the server to deliver them.
- we also chose the plan to quickly deliver the ready sixpacks (pages)
This optimization makes the 45 Videoz more expensive to deliver, but so are the HIMARS compared to commercial drones. But those Drone Operators really took advantage of the powerful and effective HIMARS once they showed up and changed everything in their country. And the Western World as well.
Funding
We have more information on this critical subject in our Help US - page. But we are essentially going to open a few avenues:
- Variable Donations: We will be using Buy Me A Coffee to remain as anonymous as long as possible to receive whatever grace you can share with this expensive effort at putting out data all over the internet as posts and responses.
- Monthly Donations: All members of the monthly donation club will receive a periodic emails with the newest sixpack additions. We will continue to scour YouTube for videos past the election.
- Congressional Campaigns: We would like to do some old-school selling of web pages to campaigns, i.e. not to anyone else, so that federal election finance laws apply. We would like a number of campaigns to finance a reserve of rocket fuel so that their email list can have their subscribers be able to do something to help the country besides a credit card transaction: pass out some video evidence of the 45th president soon to be known as a sixpack.
We all can use your Help...
We cannot depend on politicians to fund this "sixpack rocket fuel" need with a campaign banner or wealthy people helping this effort out. But in our opinion, many of 45's supporters respond to political influencers translating his words and actions and have witnessed relatively few videos of the former president over the last few years. Let's increase the targeted volume of his videos on social media.
Each sixpack share has the potential to move one voter. Slava USA.