Russia, Iran and China seen ‘ramping up’ effort to divide US voters
chinachronicler.com
Tribune News Service — Russia, Iran and China are “ramping up” attempts to stoke divisions within the U.S. ahead of November’s presidential
      • FuglyDuckEnglish
        222·
        2 years ago

        Why wouldn’t they be?

        It’s not like it costs money to creat accounts, or post/comment,

        • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
          712·
          2 years ago

          This is a tiny place, and unlike reddit, there’s not enough history that you can just make bots repost old threads and comments or buy old accounts to generate fake histories without people catching on, and the admins of the instances would probably call it out if they noticed anything awry.

        • Flying Squid
          124·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know… do they need to come from lemmy.ml when there are so many from there willing to do the work for them for free?

        • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
          510·
          2 years ago

          Would you show me what lead you to believe this? Do you have any evidence of an account whose actions are consistent with those of a bot? Say reposting old comments as a response to a repost to build fake history, or pretending to be one thing in one case and not others, or a sudden shift in content indicating the account was sold?

          Or is it just easier to believe as it gives you an excuse not to examine your own beliefs?

    • orclev
      131·
      2 years ago

      Little of both. Ronald Reagan tilled the soil, and the later Republicans fertilized it. Why wouldn’t foreign disinformation groups sow seeds in such perfect fields?

      A big chunk of the problem in US politics is the two party system enforced by first past the post. Very few people actually agree with 100% of either party’s policies, so the deciding factor for most people becomes either which party do I agree with more of their policies, or in some cases which policies do I feel are most critical and therefore drive the overall decision. This has been made even worse by Republicans strategically picking policies to try to drive a wedge in between them and Democrats particularly around certain hot button issues like abortion, gun control, and religion.

    • iopq
      34·
      2 years ago

      Ronald Reagan was immensely popular, even with some liberal voters.

      • [deleted] in lemmyEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Well, he was an actor. That helps with popularity in a setting where appearances are generally more important than substance

      • orclev
        5·
        2 years ago

        He was very popular which made him that much more dangerous. His trickle down economics lie has done more to destroy the US economy than just about anything else. To this day there’s still people who feel it’s a viable model despite nearly half a century now of showing it doesn’t work. He and Nancy Reagan are also responsible for continuing the culture war against minorities that Nixon started.

  • SkrufiMonkiEnglish
    122·
    2 years ago

    We are Americans… nobody can divide us better than ourselves!!