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The us government agencies had direction from high to push the view that Iraq was importing yellowcake from Nigeria to make nuclear weapons. Imagine how good a
by AnotherGoodName 2y ago
The us government agencies had direction from high to push the view that Iraq was importing yellowcake from Nigeria to make nuclear weapons.
Imagine how good ai will be at pushing this. Any dissent online can now be drowned out with bots. Those who chase social approval online will naturally shift their view the way the bots encourage them to with upvotes/downvotes. If Iraq happened again today we’d struggle to get a word of dissent past the online message boards.
- Bluestein 2y ago> If Iraq happened again today we’d struggle to get a word of dissent past the online message boards. Sobering thought. Well brought up ...
- dartos 2y agoJust like cable news back then. We all just got too used to thinking there was a real person on the other end of social media.
- MaxPock 2y agoNiger not Nigeria
- Spooky23 2y agoYup, you can visibly see this with the Russia “sympathizers” wrt Ukraine. Your traditional racist uncle types and old people worried about nonsense are all-in. It’s bizarre to see right wingers suddenly worried about killing Russians… talk about reversal. End of the day, social media has been weaponized and the intelligence services need to be there. Eventually, they’ll be heavy regulation, but that day is far away.