How a visit to Facebook could have looked to a young German in the early 1930’s

Posted by Anders Colding-Jørgensen on oktober 26, 2009 under Alt og intet, Demokrati, Facebook, Twitter | 5 Comments to Read

November 12. I am presenting my brand new talk called “Why Goebbels would have loved Facebook”. It’s done in Danish and takes place at the IT University of Copenhagen. Sign up on the Facebook Event>>

During my work with the basic concept of the talk, I started to wonder what it would actually have looked like, if Goebbels (who was in charge of Hitler’s proaganda from 1926) had used Facebook in the early days to spread propaganda and influence the German voters.

I had to see how that could look, so I quickly put together a “screen shot” in photoshop. It is probably not historically accurate, but it’s supposed to take place in the early 30’s, before Hitler and Goebbels reached total power.

In the later period of the Nazi regime, I am pretty sure that Goebbels would have shut down Facebook and Twitter in Germany (or tried) .

Amjad said,

Fornemmer en overskrift eller to i dagspressen.
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Kristian Risager Larsen said,

Den er sjovere end den, der blev lavet med Stein Bagger. Men også en anelse mere grovkornet. :-)
Jacob Hedegaard said,

Grovkornet er godt, love it!
Anders Colding-Jørgensen said,

Hej drenge – tak for rosen. I er med på at der ikke (kun) er tale om en joke, men også om at undersøge hvordan det kunne have set ud, hvis Goebbels havde haft mulighed for at sprede sine memer om jøderne via sociale medier, ikke?

Nuvel, det er MEGET hypotetisk, men hvordan kan man egentlig beskytte sig imod en uskyldig quiz der tester om dit navn er jødisk eller imod at folk selv spreder grove (men sensationelle) kriminalhistorier med jøder/muslimer/pædofile/hattemagere i centrum?