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With social media encouraging and promoting divisive bullshit it’s really not hard for a hostile power to influence local groups to do their bidding. Social me
by Nextgrid 8mo ago
With social media encouraging and promoting divisive bullshit it’s really not hard for a hostile power to influence local groups to do their bidding.
Social media should be the main target of all these defense groups, but sadly politicians themselves derive their power from it so it’s unlikely anything tangible will be done.
- LorenPechtel 8mo agoBut how do you do actually deal with it? The bad actors are not in reach of law enforcement.
- Nextgrid 8mo agoThe bad actors here are the social media platforms who host and promote divisive content since it generates more engagement thus ad revenue. Those are very much in reach of law enforcement and regulations can be passed to forbid such engagement-maximizing behavior. Simply moving back to chronological feeds of accounts the user explicitly chose to follow would be a big first step in curbing the spread of propaganda.
- LorenPechtel 8mo agoBut this imposes an effectively impossible burden on them. You can't build a platform with anything resembling free expression without inherently creating a platform that can be used for evil.