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> Say Twitter is completely overrun by foreign state actors who delete everything. That's not what's dangerous. Instead, dangerous things include manipulating
by leaflets2 4y ago
> Say Twitter is completely overrun by foreign state actors who delete everything.
That's not what's dangerous.
Instead, dangerous things include manipulating the algorithms so that "news" of ones choice get lots of visibility. Then a foreign state can influence the elections
- Maursault 4y ago> Then a foreign state can influence the elections I think this is bollocks. 23% of Americans say they use Twitter. 61% of Americans voted in the last Presidential election. So with my bad math, say a foreign state somehow gets every possible Twitter users vote going their way, at best it's going bamboozle 14% of weak-minded Americans. That's at best, the perfect and unbeatable score. The reality is that most Twitter users are not obsessed with the platform, and most Americans are not on the fence with their votes. This concern is not really supportable.
- leaflets2 4y ago14%, even just 4%, is a lot, can be enough to decide an election. Often the parties are close to 50% each. In addition to that, the manipulators / nation states don't attack only via Twitter, and, everything combined ...