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    it is well known that bot farms red and blue fireup in the run up to election season, and there are millions of these bots.

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    My pet theory is that Musk acquired Twitter to destroy one of the most effective platforms for anyone on the left to organize.

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      Just wait for the quid pro quo. SpaceX was supposed to get us back to the moon on 3 billion dollars. They are now at 5 billion dollars, and all they have to show for it is a flaming husk of a booster caught by “the chopsticks”.

      For anyone who thinks that was some incredible accomplishment… NASA has been landing rovers on Mars using truly incredible engineering that makes SpaceX look like a bunch of kids eating Baby Ruth bars in the sandbox.

      So if Elon gets appointed to a government position and starts awarding Tesla and SpaceX all kinds of extended taxpayer-funded gravy grift, you will know your pet theory is 100% spot on.

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      And/or weaponize it for his buddies to do so instead…

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Same on Threads.

    Everything went quiet.

    I would love to see these accounts, when they were opened, when they ceased posting, what they posted, and what the IP addresses were.

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      I was thinking about this recently. I’m not disagreeing that there isn’t massive bot bullshit.

      But I purposely stayed off the internet for like 48 hours. Many of my friends did too.

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    I don’t agree with all of this. I agree with the investigation. I agree with the ban. I don’t agree with waiting for anything. Ban it, irrespective of the investigation. It’s a cesspool, and no investigation is going to fix that.

    Edit: autocorrect.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    It’s a little bit naive and self destructive that human beings have created tools as powerful as mainstream social media with absolutely no checks or balances, absolutely no accountability, absolutely no transparency, and entirely at the whims of billionaire owners and nation states they’re in bed with.

    Regulating and banning social media that is being used to blatantly conduct massive psyops should be uncontroversial.

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      I’m sick of private ownership and private decision making about every fucking single aspect of human life from who gets housed to who gets fed to our very culture.

      Americans “hate” dictatorships but allow the economy to be run by a bunch of Lords.

      Socialism is the democratization of the economy. Socialism puts the human and the worker and the people most impacted by these economic decisions at the helm.

      But no, democracy in the economy wouldn’t be free. We need to slave away for fascist dictators.

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      because other people are. idk why anyone has trouble understanding that for most users social media is only as good as its population.

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        what? no because he’s a western chauvinist and an islamophobe. everyone fucking hates him.

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    The biggest problem is the damage is done.

    The party holds the supreme court. House. Senate. Executive. Under the unitary executive theory, the rest of the federal government, while being completely inept, will be party members.

    All we can do now, is collectively survive. It’s a death cult. Steps we take to prevent the detainment, torture and death of our neighbors, friends, and family are the biggest fuck you to these people.

    I don’t know how we’ll do it. But we don’t do it by joining or tolerating them. We don’t have to make it easy for them.

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      Good on you.

      Haven’t deleted mine yet but have two active accounts on blusky and mastodon and my twitter one is inactive with a pinned post linking my new socials.

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        Honestly that might be more helpful.

        I sometimes see the overwritten reddit comments when searching for a topic, and I wish that the comment would link to the person’s new account (wherever they may be) in addition to the usual blurb on whg they aren’t active on reddit anymore

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    Like, where is his data? Is there a list of all bot accounts on Twitter, with a column showing recent activity? Or is this guy doing the same thing as the other side - talking out of his ass?

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      Have you been on twitter recently? [Note that I recommend users do not use twitter]

      It’s pretty obvious when for the past two weeks you had every single tweet of yours get spammed replies like “#TRUMP2024 #MAGA” with clearly AI generated profile pictures and fake names. All these accounts have like 20 followers and are following 5k+ accounts. And a bunch of them instantly reply to your posts like 5 seconds after posting. All these accounts have ceased activity overnight.

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      Probably talking out of his ass. I like to read conservative threads to see comments outside of my bubble - they say the same shit, just about other platforms like reddit.

      It’s the age of post-truth and I don’t think there is a fix for that anytime soon.

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        they say the same shit, just about other platforms like reddit.

        Maybe because that is also true. Reddit is full of bots lately, you have to be blind not to realize that

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        7 hours ago

        Kraut is a decently respected figure with a Phd in central european history.

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          He may be the inventor of politics for all I care, credentials are no indicator of truth.

          A claim such as this needs some data, otherwise it’s not much better than any right-wing conspiracy.

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            Isn’t it obvious from his tweet that he doesn’t have data, therefore, his conclusion must be based on personal experience and input from others. Which is why he doesn’t call for twitter to be banned, but for it to be investigated.

            And regardless there have been multiple credible news stories and even US government reports on pro-Trump bot networks on twitter.

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              It is obvious, you’re right. I just feel like the proper course of action wouldn’t have been a claim and a demand for an investigation. Maybe ask others for their experiences and link a petition for people to sign, should they share this feeling, and start an investigation that way.

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                I feel like compiling receipts (a list of known/suspected bot accounts) and then following the paper trail would be a good idea… like Wolverine hunting down the school bomber during Civil War

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      8 hours ago

      Twitter is riddled with MAGA bots. Like AI generated accounts who spam pro-Trump content.

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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    Why are they asking for Europe to investigate election interference in the US? I’m pretty sure they’ll just claim that isn’t their jurisdiction.