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Based on the 2020 Oxford report on state actor manipulation it's insanely prolific. 57 Countries use bot accounts, 79 countries use human propaganda accounts. T
by OhioMan2943 2y ago
Based on the 2020 Oxford report on state actor manipulation it's insanely prolific. 57 Countries use bot accounts, 79 countries use human propaganda accounts. This is a top 5 pressing issue of our times. I violently hate how little the public is informed by their governments about it.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-13-social-media-manipulation-political-actors-industrial-scale-problem-oxford-report https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-01-13-social-media-manipulati... (Press release)
https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2021/01/CyberTroop-Report-2020-v.2.pdf https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/202... (Actual report) (Very interesting, if you're only reading one report this month...-> goes into depth in what sectors in each country with cyber troops are involved, ie state, influencers, political parties, ngos, and which countries use human or bot.)
other: government control of media on the rise globally
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2024/10/22/government-control-of-media-on-the-rise-globally/ https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2024/10/22/government-co...
- silexia 2y agoI worked for a company that did this "Reputation Management" in my first job out of college around 2008. It was big at that time, and almost everything now is highly controlled, especially Reddit. I also dislike Facebook's new feed that endlessly regurgitates clickbait ragebait garbage. The best legitimate communities I know of online are Heavyequipmentforums.com and newagtalk.com. Good luck finding the real forums like these on Google search though, which is probably the product that has gone down the most in quality over time. Honestly, all of the above can probably be attributed to the falling quality of Google results.