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I don't care about people paying for extra followers. If that makes you feel special, be my guest. What I very much do care about is these bots that are being u
by Invictus0 9y ago
I don't care about people paying for extra followers. If that makes you feel special, be my guest. What I very much do care about is these bots that are being used by foreign nations and other bad actors to influence our national conversations and even our cultural zeitgeist. To propose a variant on Newton's third, for each powerful positive innovation, there is an equally powerful negative consequence. I wonder what can be done to stop this.
- coliveira 9y agoThe US has being doing this for ages. The difference is that they used to pay mainstream media people in foreign countries to spread their vision of the world, and therefore poison the well of international news and commentary. Now the US is tasting a little bit of that in the form of social media, which is more polarized and difficult to control.
- anigbrowl 9y agoThat doesn't make it OK for the individual people who live with it. This idea that it's somehow just payback for past bad actions by a government that most of them weren't aware of is no help to regular folk who are drowning in a sea of misinformation.
- coliveira 9y agoThis is not a justification, it is just an explanation of what is happening. It is a well-known state of affairs throughout the world, where foreign powers constantly jockey to spread political disinformation. Only now this is also becoming reality inside the US because of changes in patterns of media consumption spearheaded by companies such as FB and Google.
- anigbrowl 9y agoSorry for misreading your tone. You make a good point and I agree with your objective assessment.