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The article says as much, but this is a hard problem with no great solutions. Some of the places that traffic in Jones kind of craziness are the conspiracy and
by aaron-lebo 8y ago
The article says as much, but this is a hard problem with no great solutions.
Some of the places that traffic in Jones kind of craziness are the conspiracy and greatawakening subreddits. The former is absurdly abused by the mods while Holocaust deniers and child abuse accusations run rampant (this is why that's not cool Musk) and you get banned for opposing that and other lunacy.
The latter subreddit is kind of terrifying. It's straight on cult behavior complete with subprophets with obvious mental illness breaking down their supposed communications from Trump and "Q" - and people not only believe it but celebrate it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/9284sg/trump_told_us_q_was_going_to_post_again_soon/ https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/9284sg/trum...
I've no doubt this existed before (how did the militant movements organize prior to Waco and OKC?) but I wonder if the spread of some of this lunacy (Q) would be possible if the platform wasn't provided to them. I kind of wait for the day that Reddit has to shut that down because of how bad it looks, but I hope it's not because of some violent and paranoid act fueled by it.
- Lendal 8y agoYeah, it was a pretty good article with good ideas. But Facebook and Google can't do everything about this issue. The fear and anger which give rise to conspiracy theories are part of being human. We've always been a violent, deceitful species. We have to find ways to acknowledge who we are and deal with it better than we have been. We can't just censor the madness and pretend it doesn't exist. The madness will break out in uncontrolled ways.