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They’re on lemmy too.
Hyper aggressive accounts on either side of politics.
Yeah. Better blocking tools would go a long ways to shutting this kind of thing down
I find blocking and reporting, as they’re currently implemented, are effective. Did you have other ideas?
The problem is that ‘blocking’ as currently implemented just means that you can’t see what the other person posts/comments. So they can follow you around with comments that you don’t see, but which are really damaging.
Moderator action can help, but that’s a lot more limited, and only applies to a single community unless you can get the whole federation to ban them.
And nothing keeps somebody from creating new accounts on another server and continuing the bad behavior.
The problems you’re describing are a feature of every social media platform. You can’t force someone to stop being a bad actor, and bad actors will always act in bad faith and try to circumvent moderation.
Downvoting does nothing to address the problem, because having negative votes doesn’t actually do anything; at least with blocking, you don’t have to see them anymore, and that’s at least one person who they can’t share their bullshit with.
The best way to stop people spreading bad-faith messages is to engage and demonstrate why their argument is stupid. Otherwise, block/mute/report them and let them scream into the void. You are not required to babysit their bad behavior, because attention is what they want in the first place.
There are other platforms where:
- a block kills the person’s ability to see your posts and comments while logged in
- a block means they can’t respond to you
- a block means that you can clear their past responses from being seen by others
- the platform has some (albeit imperfect) ability to block people from creating multiple accounts to harass
- there is proactive effort to limit the large-scale operations of bad-faith accounts
You can’t defeat bad faith action at scale using legitimate techniques without those.
It’s hard to do. I might add some code
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Chinese influence campaign that has tried for years to boost Beijing’s interests is now using artificial intelligence and a network of social media accounts to amplify American discontent and division ahead of the U.S. presidential election, according to a new report.
The campaign, known as Spamouflage, hopes to breed disenchantment among voters by maligning the United States as rife with urban decay, homelessness, fentanyl abuse, gun violence and crumbling infrastructure, according to the report, which was published on Thursday by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit research organization in London.
Spamouflage’s focus on social conflict and antagonism in the U.S. presidential race could also signal how Beijing hopes to shape the many other important elections taking place in the world this year.
The report on Thursday focused on Spamouflage posts on X. Ms. Thomas wrote that while the campaign also operated on YouTube, TikTok, Medium and “literally dozens of other forums, websites and social media platforms,” it had proliferated with far more ease on X.
The report, which was published on Wednesday, said such content was more prevalent because numerous social media platforms, including Facebook and YouTube, had retreated from some of their past commitments related to election integrity.
The researchers singled out X, saying that ever since Elon Musk took over in late 2022, much of the platform’s elections team has been eliminated, toxic content has surged and other social media companies have used the volatility as an excuse to lower their own guard.
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My god the Chinese influence campaign is coming from inside the house
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