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They think their tactics will push a mental narrative to change and pull minds, the direction they want them to think.
What it has actually done is, the respect they think they deserve, is no longer warranted.
Thank you for not denying that you side with Ruskies over your own countrymen. Your wannabe oligarch of a leader certainly agrees with you.
Social media propaganda is social media propaganda no matter who is slinging it at you. You're either smart enough to see through the BS or you're not.
Facebook posts from Russia differ from Facebook posts by American partisans how?
Some say vote Red, some say vote Blue, all shriek at that same hysterical volume and are almost entirely devoid of fact, logic, context, history, etc. Let's say Russian bots did indeed post tons of FB crap? Had it been 20 billion posts, they were lost in the vast ocean of white noise called "the American electorate spamming the f**k out of FB/twitter/instagram/whatever"
What are political ads if not totally misleading snippets that specifically remove context to trick you into thinking something about Team Red or Team Blue that simply isn't true, or at least nowhere near the "truth" the ad would like you to believe?
What are campaign promises, if not outright lies like 90% of the time? When a candidate says their "plan" will create 10 million jobs, they may as well be saying their plan will expand the amount of pixie dust harvested by unicorns on Jupiter. Same level of fiction, with one simply being more obvious. Yet people base their votes on that stupid crap every year.
But oh no, let us all cry a river that a foreign group added maybe 0.0001% to the white noise called campaign season!!! Yeah, that's what elected Trump. Sure.
It is utterly remarkable what ignorant people can be made to believe. And there is nothing, literally nothing under the Sun that is more ignorant than a partisan. Jeez oh man are you people gullible.
Facebook posts from Russia differ from Facebook posts by American partisans how?
Some say vote Red, some say vote Blue, all shriek at that same hysterical volume and are almost entirely devoid of fact, logic, context, history, etc. Let's say Russian bots did indeed post tons of FB crap? Had it been 20 billion posts, they were lost in the vast ocean of white noise called "the American electorate spamming the f**k out of FB/twitter/instagram/whatever"
What are political ads if not totally misleading snippets that specifically remove context to trick you into thinking something about Team Red or Team Blue that simply isn't true, or at least nowhere near the "truth" the ad would like you to believe?
What are campaign promises, if not outright lies like 90% of the time? When a candidate says their "plan" will create 10 million jobs, they may as well be saying their plan will expand the amount of pixie dust harvested by unicorns on Jupiter. Same level of fiction, with one simply being more obvious. Yet people base their votes on that stupid crap every year.
But oh no, let us all cry a river that a foreign group added maybe 0.0001% to the white noise called campaign season!!! Yeah, that's what elected Trump. Sure.
It is utterly remarkable what ignorant people can be made to believe. And there is nothing, literally nothing under the Sun that is more ignorant than a partisan. Jeez oh man are you people gullible.
Google, Facebook, and the others need to be regulated like a public utility.
Free speech and knowledge should be regulated? Like a public utility? Really?
Any idea how totalitarian that sounds?
EDIT - wait a sec. Maybe you're on to something. We can regulate Google, FB et al for truth. We'll create a department/agency...or wait, let's call it a ministry. Yeah, that's it...the Ministry of Truth. Hold on, that sounds familiar....
Free speech and knowledge should be regulated? Like a public utility? Really?
Any idea how totalitarian that sounds?
I agree with you on the speech and knowledge part, but if they are to be used for politicians to launch campaigns and use them as an arm of their campaigns they should be or the Gov should be forbidden from using non regulated platforms as such. They can feel free to use it for their personal accounts but not official campaign accounts and such IMO. It's too easy for "collusion" to suppress the voices of the other side and could be considered influencing elections just by that if it's going to be used as an official campaign tool don't you think?
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