• @[email protected]
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    92 hours ago

    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.

  • Lemminary
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    685 hours ago

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

    • @AA5B
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      221 minutes ago

      That’s an awfully expensive political statement, even for Musk

      • @DrownedRats
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        518 minutes ago

        True, but he’s proven repeatedly that he’s got far more money than sense.

    • @freddydunningkruger
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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.

    • @someguy3
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      I still think he bought into the Twitter files conspiracy.

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    345 hours ago

    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.

  • @gedaliyah
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      133 minutes ago

      But muh TikTok!!!

      And also: it’s racist to ban social media platforms…or whatever…I don’t know. Whatever garbage is usually spewed anytime a platform that leans heavily left is about to get shut down.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 hours ago

      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.

  • peopleproblems
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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.

    • @whaleross
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      757 hours ago

      The post is about not letting it happen in the EU.

      • Justin
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        177 hours ago

        no reason why Europe and the american opposition can’t be on the same side

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          deleted by creator

      • peopleproblems
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        I am aware.

        350m people have been affected by it in the US. With the ties we have to Europe, it’s already been happening.

    • mycelium underground
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      37 hours ago

      From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    • @pyre
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      85 hours ago

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

      • @Bytemeister
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        So the only reason to go there is because people are going there, but if people stop going there, then there is no reason to go there, so really there isn’t any reason to go at all.

        Unless you’re a sheep.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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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.

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod
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    569 hours ago

    I finally deleted my account. Had since 2007…it’s not useful anymore.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      199 hours ago

      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.

      • Otter
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        118 hours ago

        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

  • @[email protected]
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    339 hours ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]OP
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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.

    • @De_Narm
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        137 hours ago

        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

        • @De_Narm
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          -228 hours ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            208 hours ago

            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.

            • @De_Narm
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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.

              • @[email protected]
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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

  • JoYo
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    107 hours ago

    before? where have you been this whole time?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      609 hours ago

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

  • @Sam_Bass
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    what would happen if it came out that musk played with the voting totals? sure seems odd for the repugs to pull 94% as much as shown