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I’m so often at a loss for ideas about how to make this better. This is a really big problem for US democracy that deliberately targets a large attack surface o
by beager 9y ago
I’m so often at a loss for ideas about how to make this better. This is a really big problem for US democracy that deliberately targets a large attack surface on the underbelly of the US consciousness, one that has been ripened by a declining internal political climate and the increasingly outrage-oriented lean of US media.
Tech companies are exploited for these purposes, and have trouble dealing with that exploitation for myriad reasons. The activity equals eyeballs equals revenue. The end users aren’t educated to be skeptical of content of indiscernible provenance. Consumer web product development is too optimistic and mostly presumes good faith and good actors.
I don’t really know where I was going with this but it’s a big frustrating problem with no easy solution. How do I pitch in?
- dogma1138 9y agoThe US does it all the time to much grater effect. I still haven’t seen any of these so called Russian accounts with more than a handful of subscribers and a few 1000s views collectively. The channel in question had over 100 videos and less than 10,000 views in total many of which based on the timeline were in the 24 hours after the exposure of this channel as a Russian propaganda machine. I would say ther RT has been probably more effective than all of the Facebook and YouTube channels combined but even their effectiveness is fairly limited and good luck closing a press outlet.