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X has a pandemic of people pretending to be Americans (or Westerners in general) saying edgy or controversial things in order to encourage engagement and subseq
by ChocolateGod 11mo ago
X has a pandemic of people pretending to be Americans (or Westerners in general) saying edgy or controversial things in order to encourage engagement and subsequently earn money from X's program. This is why this feature was added.
IMHO the program itself just encourages misinformation and should be scrapped.
- IAmGraydon 11mo agoX's program? They're not doing this to earn money. They're trying to sow division in the US, and they've been very successful.
- orwin 11mo agoI know someone from Greece (then Malta) who produce ragebait/troll article farms since at least 2015, targeting the US in general, republicans in particular (I think he started "both side", but Republican ragebait used to draw more engagement). I don't know what he's doing now, but from 2015 to 2020, he made millions. It was mostly facebook at the time, but i wouldn't surprise his content is trending on X.