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X is once again full of bots selling crypto and financial services .
by MaxPock 1y ago
X is once again full of bots selling crypto and financial services .
- josefritzishere 1y agoIt's really degenerated into a trash heap. I quit years ago.
- mmastrac 1y agoI pop in from time to time but I only ever see right-wing rage bait (??) and my old timeline is completely gone. I don't engage with any of it either, just scrolling until I finally catch a name I recognize and maybe dropping a like.
- FredPret 1y agoThere's also left-wing rage bait if you scroll down. It's sad that these social media companies supplanted proper journalism, only to then rot into this. What do we have now?
- Shekelphile 1y agoAnd even on tweets that don't seem to be outwardly ragebait the top replies will always be from blue checked right wing accounts, of course.
- arrowsmith 1y agoHey, that's not fair! It's also full of porn bots and Holocaust denial.
- jjeaff 1y agoDon't forget the graphic fight videos with comments full of racial undertones. I have literally never engaged with nor watched more than a few seconds of those types of videos yet my feed is full of them.
- vvpan 1y agoAh yes the "look at what brown people are doing to our cities" accounts... One of the main reasons I am not on there anymore.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoIt's to radicalize people into becoming racists.
- dismalaf 1y agoEvery platform has Holocaust denial because that's the one thing that the far-left and far-right both agree on...
- RankingMember 1y agoThe far-left denies the Holocaust? On what grounds?
- dismalaf 1y agoIt's usually some mental gymnastics related to Israel, Gaza, etc... Because many Muslims deny the holocaust, much of the far-left has co-opted that rhetoric. It's super visible on TikTok, for example. Edit - some comments below this seem to doubt. Just go on TikTok to politically charged posts about Palestine. This whole thread is about social media. Not holocaust denial on the mainstream left, specifically the far-left on social media
- seadan83 1y agoSounds like sampling bias TBH. The 'far-left' and the 'twitter-left' (or the tik-tok left) are not all quite the same thing either. I don't think you can draw much conclusions about people outside of a platform based on either Twitter or TikTok.
- DFHippie 1y agoIn my many decades as a political observer I have never seen Holocaust denial on the left. I guess it's a pretty niche sub-movement. Where does one pick these nuts?
- int_19h 1y agoUSSR practiced a milder form of Holocaust denial by downplaying the fact that victims were killed because they were Jews. A typical manifestation of that was various monuments to Holocaust victims, the signs of which referred to them strictly as "Soviet citizens" without any mention of their ethnicity. https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/story/forgotten-remembered https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/story/forgotten-remembered
- stetrain 1y agoIt never really stopped. All of Elon's crying about bots stopped as soon as he took ownership.
- sojsurf 1y agoI went back recently. Maybe I'm in the wrong circles, but I'm seeing neither of these. I _am_ still seeing lots of recycled content looking for clicks.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoHe fixed the bot problem, the problem of Twitter banning Elon's bots.