Myrmidon

News - White Paper

A MEDIA OPERATION FOR THE NEW INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

(NAME MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

DRAFT 0.1
Geheimnis | geheimnis086@gmail.com

Executive Summary
Given the election of President Donald Trump and his initial actions within his first week
in office, it is clear that we are witnessing the end of the post-WWII liberal international
order. Furthermore, given advances in informational technology and the advent of social
media, it is clear that the world is now rife with opportunities to exert new levels of
influence and affect public narratives concerning events, both domestic and international.
In the words of infamous Colombia hacker and election manipulator Andrs Seplveda:
When I realized that people believe what the Internet says more than reality, I discovered
that I had the power to make people believe almost anything.
This paper proposes a new dynamic media operation, founded and maintained by the
members of a certain message board, for the purposes of affecting a hard-right inclined
change onto the world. It will combine a standard news/commentary reporting function
with elite influence operations directed towards affecting public discourse through
disinformation and memetic campaigns. If even mildly successful, this venture will
develop a strong level of influence over social and political discourse, allowing us to guide
the Western world (and potentially beyond) to a new era: one of strong national identity
and crushing the insidious threat of the political left.

Onward to the final victory.

-Geheimnis

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General Overview

What is Myrmidon News*?

The basic idea is to harness /pol/s latent ability (by itself a mammoth task) to create a
news site / media outlet (starting out as a blog). Since information and knowledge is
power, a strong media operation can have a disproportionate amount of
political/economic influence in the 21st century. Perfect for driving the general /pol/
agenda (hard-right attitudes, destroying progressivism/multiculturalism, etc.)
*Name is subject to change.

Is this a /pol/ project?

No. While people will be recruited from the board (and possibly likeminded individuals
from other places, up to debate), the project is intended to be separate from the board.
This will be a serious venture with actual goals and tangible effort. God forbid someone
proposes something as autistic as calling this website Times of /pol/ and writing articles
that describe how Jews/kikes are taking everyone for a ride. We do not want to portray
ourselves as the stereotype of a Neo-Nazi online troll is like.
On that note, do understand that there will be a tight editorial/narrative line for this
project. We are not going to push things as if we thought meme-based Twitter handles of
Facebook profiles of Schlomo Goldstein is the standard way to go. This intended to be
legit and something right/center leaning audiences can at least look at without reacting
like a typical Huffington Post reader.

What will its target audiences be?

Apart from trying to get our own people and those who think like us, we want to go after
right, center-right, and centrist audiences. This is a mission to convert people into our line
of thought. To use board terminology, redpilling. We will focus initially on an American
audience and build from there.
The main goal is to follow the Breitbart strategy: craft specific recurring narratives
(Islam/Muslims = Terrorism, societal decay, leftist hatred of law and order, etc.) and keep
pushing them until the message sinks. It must be done in an aggressive and noncompromising manner while remaining (mostly) factually true.

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Will non-American audiences be reached?

In the future, yes. The first planned major expansion is into Europe, specifically the UK.
After that we can start going after the individual European countries, likely recruiting
from the individual national news focused general threads on /pol/.
If things go well, and depending how things go, we can consider expanding elsewhere.
Latin/South America, Asia, etc.

How will content be produced?

Initially, most of it will likely either be ripped and rewritten from other sites, maybe
providing background news links to other sites and stories. We will also, if we can secure
people who can speak languages other than English, to translate foreign news articles.
In time, depending how things go and we determine we have good writers/people on the
ground, we can start producing original stuff. This could run the gamut from opinion
pieces to reports to a podcast to whatever.

Will there be fabricated content?

Fake news as they call it, and likely no. Tempting as it may be, companies are cracking
down on that stuff after Democrats and various European politicians threw a tantrum
after Hillary Clinton lost the election. Google wont provide ad revenue anymore to clearly
fake news sites, Facebook is looking into new measures, etc. Plus national governments
are considering new strategies. Fmr. US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
and fmr. (failed) VP candidate Tim Kaine want to bring back the U.S. Information Agency
with reinvigorated powers to fight this sort of thing.
If there is a fake news operation, itll probably be the domain of the Thunder Knights (see
the section below).

What about Social Media?

We definitely want a presence, obviously. Facebook, yes. Twitter, likely. Its impossible to
survive these days a media outlet without one. In fact, a good chunk of original news
outlets are based solely on Facebook pages. If we were to ever expand into video, we
could get a YouTube channel.

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Will this make money?

Hopefully.
During the testing period (see Roadmap below), well go ad-less and see how things go.
Maybe people are willing to chip in, though they probably wont. If we go decide to go
with ads, we have to make sure they fit with the website and the general
theme/content/etc. Do you want to see a shitty 29 things you didnt know about article
link or such sponsored links by Taboola ads, right next to your article on how antifa are
doing X thing? Id rather not.
Hopefully this does bring in cash, then this can become a full-time thing for people.

Wait, does this mean I can get a full-time job here?

Initially, volunteering only. Though who knows: if you get in early and stick with this
throughout and it becomes successful, you just might. Stranger things have happened the
past year.

Who are you anyways?

Call me Geheimnis for now. Political analyst for a certain think tank and an editor for a
certain professional magazine on international relations/affairs, currently advising a
certain political campaign in a certain country. Obviously I dont want be specific for the
sake of my privacy. But for the purposes of this whole thing, Im just the guy who decided
to put down the basic idea on paper and put it out for the public. Things are better when
theyre on paper and can be discussed.
Id rather keep my real identity private (like all /pol/lacks), but if this were to seriously
take off and I had some managerial/commentator position, Id likely have to go public,
along with others.

We have to expose our real identity?

Initially, all stories on this proposed media platform would probably be published under
some collective general name like Myrmidon Staff or the like. Maybe admin(s) would
have personal pseudonyms.
But eventually, if this were to seriously take off, real names would have to enter the
equation. Transparency is key to trust and legitimacy, especially for the
owner/manager/editor-in-chief, columnists, and key members of staff. This will be a huge
turn-off for /pol/lacks, I know. But if at that stage one doesnt have the courage to be
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public about this stuff, then what good would we be, particularly in the era of Trump and
rising nationalism? And how would we expect others to take us for our word? And, if this
were to be profitable, how would we pay out to be people (keeping in mind taxation and
the general law of the land).

What is next?
See the development roadmap below. It's a proposed way forward I put together.

I see there is something there called Thunder Knights. Whats that about?
To complement/supplement this media platform, and make use of /pol/s other talents, I
propose the creation of a elite rapid-deployment and response team of trolls, memetic
warriors, disinformation experts, what-have-you. In conjunction with the sites
management, the goal of this goal is to a) subtly boost the site and its content, b) organize
campaigns against individuals, organizations, campaigns, etc., sway the public mood
regarding key issues that are of concern to us at the moment of deployment.
So basically a professional troll farm that, through its actions, can boost our news, our
narrative, and maybe even create the opportunity to produce news. Some examples of
what we want to see/do:
Russias Internet Research Agency
The Great Liberation of France
Seplvedas various election manipulation campaigns
Essentially, a somewhat more organized and coherent version of what /pol/ regularly does
in terms of memetic warfare and coordinated trolling efforts, with the added benefit of
boosting the media platform.
This is just a concept at this point, and obviously the idea needs further refinement. But it
if were implemented, it would be incredibly invaluable. Read the first story (Internet
Research Agency) to get an idea of what the Russians do, which is what we would want to
replicate.

But why Thunder Knights?

Lighting strikes in an instant and is over in a flash. But thunder. Thunder! Thunder
proclaims the coming of the storm. Thunder quakes the skies long before lighting strikes,
and thunder echoes in the hills long after lightings power is spent. It is thunder that sends

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animals cowering and fills the hearts of peasants with dread. Let thunder be my herald, so
that my power is felt throughout the land.

Huh?
Because it sounds amusing and it references SS lighting bolts. Look, if the name bothers
you that much, it can be changed. We just won't call it something idiotic like THE
FOLLOWERS AND DISCIPLES OF KEK. If you want to start that, youre free to do so on
your own.

Is this a CIA/Shill job and are you just taking us all for ride?
Honestly, I wish it was. Id probably be paid for writing all of this.

Youre probably a kike.

And I fucked your mother last night.
Well well.

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Proposed Development Roadmap

JADE (ORGANIZATION PRE-FORMATION STAGE)

Initial organization of the media outlet. Consists of:

Gathering the necessary reading materials for new recruits for their education on
writing and spreading content.
Recruiting initial contributors and volunteers into staff.
Deciding organization name, logo, and structure.
Early fundraising; small amount, enough to acquire domain name, server, and
minor needs.

SAPPHIRE (ORGANIZATION FORMATION STAGE)

Formation of the media outlet. Consists of:

Securing the domain name and a server to host the site.

Building the website (assuming use of Wordpress at start, possible to switch once
adequate tech talent has been recruited).
Creating relevant social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter, others added later)

AMETHYST (INITIAL LAUNCH AND TESTING STAGE)

Soft launch of the media outlet for purposes of testing. Consists of:

Determining the skill and capabilities (information gathering, writing, editing,

publishing, publicizing, etc) of the staff.
Determining adequacy of established organizational structure, make changes if
necessary.
Creating an initial site history of articles (no empty space).
Creating a social media presence (Facebook, Twitter).
Testing how rapidly staff can respond to world events, social media queries, other.
Determining what can be improved upon in regards to the site.

TOPAZ (DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT STAGE)

Building upon lessons learned from previous stage. Consists of:

Refining organizational structure and responsibilities.

Setting up schedules by which things are posted, edited, and published.
Begin research into possibility of adding ads, considering which would be best and
would fit in well.
Overhauling/refining the website?

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RUBY (FORMALIZED LAUNCH STAGE, FORMATION OF THUNDERKNIGHTS)

Official grand launch.
Lock in roles and responsibilities at the present, begin considering next expansion.
If agreed upon, go ahead with the formation of the rapid-response trolling team (Thunder
Knights).

DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP TO BE CONTINED AS NEEDED IN THE FUTURE

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