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It's chilling how quickly misinformation merchants, hostile foreign agents, and other bad actors coalesced around using popular mainstream social media as the w
by JohnBooty 6y ago
It's chilling how quickly misinformation merchants, hostile foreign agents, and other bad actors coalesced around using popular mainstream social media as the world's most effective megaphone.
A scant few years ago, they lacked a direct communications channel by which they could radicalize the average American.
- exporectomy 6y agoHow can you explain the radical leftists of the 1960's then? Somehow the Russians (Soviets) must have (I assume you believe it was caused by them) had a communications channel by which they could radicalize all those college students.
- JohnBooty 6y agoWhat? What you typed bears little resemblance to anything I claimed. Yes, I lumped hostile foreign countries in with other sorts of hostile actors. However, I did not claim that they were the only kinds of hostile actors. Nor did I even claim that they were the worst. Summarizing my views as "the Russians cause everything" is... just wow.