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I believe in some form of the Twitter poisoning theory: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.ym

• Henchman21 7mo ago
  All of what currently ails western society online is likely to be a russian psyop. All of it. We've left ourselves open to direct manipulation.
  • CamperBob2 7mo ago
    No, we did this to ourselves. Blaming Russia is the easy way out... even when it's likely true, as in the trajectory of Trump's career. A healthy, rational society would be much harder to bamboozle -- by Russians or demagogues or preachers or billionaires or anyone else -- than Americans have proven to be. Over the last 10-20 years, many events that I thought would serve to immunize us to BS have fed an addiction instead.
  • IAmGraydon 7mo ago
    Not all, but much. Years ago here on HN I said that social media is a weapon more powerful than nuclear fission and we created it and handed it to our enemies in exchange for a small group of people becoming extremely wealthy. I was promptly downvoted. It’s the closest thing to a mind control device that’s ever been created, and sites like Reddit, Facebook, and even HN openly allow bot traffic in exchange for either dollars or a claim of “open discourse”. HN hates the solution to this problem even more than they hate the problem, so I won’t even start the debate.
• CamperBob2 7mo ago
  That's a nice essay from Lanier. Operant conditioning is certainly something everybody on HN has experienced, watching the numbers next to their posts go up and down.
• IAmGraydon 7mo ago
  https://archive.is/sSfGI https://archive.is/sSfGI