Made a Twitter account like a month ago, because I wanted to check some content there. Without following anybody, I got all the German right-wing, conspiracy, and anti-goverment stuff on the recommended content timeline. Closed the account again ASAP. Pretty sure that shit gets pushed onto everybody. Musk is everything the right make Soros out to be.
I checked out a tweet from a local mayor making a positive but otherwise pretty mundane bureaucratic announcement, like a 4% increase on budget spending for wildlife conservation. The replies were flooded with people (with a lot of flags in their usernames) saying "why did you let [absolutely buck wild conspiracy theory] happen? You and [unrelated group] should be dragged through the streets for your crimes!"
Out of curiosity, I checked conservative to see what their spin on President Musk causing a government shutdown would be.
Their argument is that it's not Musk demanding it. It's the overwhelming will of the people. And their one and only bit of evidence to support this view is that they saw tons of posts on twitter demanding the funding bill be scrapped.
On twitter. The same twitter owned by Musk. The same twitter he openly manipulates to support his preferred narrative. The same twitter that everybody except nazis has abandoned. That twitter.
I know they don't argue in good faith, but given that they're only talking to themselves at this point, it's just weird that they would even bother typing out such an obviously flawed argument.
All I could think as I read it was exactly what you said about Soros.
My mom watches Fox News, nothing but. She never sees any of the horrible shit Trump does because they never show it. At the same time she thinks Biden is the most dishonest and evil president we’ve ever had. The same guy they paint as useless and ineffectual. It’s literally propaganda over there.
Yeah I don't even bother to verify if tweets are real or not anymore since it insists you log in to even see public tweets and accounts now. I just accept every inane tweet screenshot I see at face value. (Especially the Tate ones)
I have a twitter account exclusively for gay porn and get the same kind of stuff. Not only are they pushing out nazi bullshit, they can't even target it well
My Facebook feed is full of "recommendations" that are full blown racist, transphobic, or homophobic pages. Not to mention the plethora of flat Earth, Anti-vax or raw milk pages with a sprinkle or AI TShirt ads saying "I'm white, how else can I piss you off?". And all of those pages are run from abroad.
Social media has amplified hateful rhetoric by foreigners for years, and it's just fueling more and more strife in America. It's fucking ridiculous, I'm starting to agree with Trump about section 230.
Section 230 is not your problem then, it's the first amendment. Because algos are protected by the 1A. Meta should not be sued because they decide to host dumb flat earthers lol. They make the internet more entertaining
Sure, but you could say that about every website. Meta is an easy target because it's so large but suing Zuck for all the terrible people on the internet won't make all the bad people on the internet disappear. See MP v. Meta.
One of the biggest reasons Section 230 was crafted in 1996 was because the Wolf of Wall Street sued an ICS because folks like you and me called him and his company a fraud. He won in the NY Supreme Court and Congress crafted 230 to ensure losers like him can't use their wealth to crush dissent on the internet. I understand everyone has beef with Zuck for something but we don't need to go back to 1995 where guys like Wolf can win. So Section 230 really allows all websites to host a lot of BS without worrying about it
At this point, I don't care. This country is being eaten alive by misinformation and foreign interference and social media companies enable it because it makes them money.
I get it, but going after section 230 won't fix the problem. Misinformation will still exist on the internet, and the Supreme Court established that lies are free speech if they don't cause imminent lawless action or damage to someone (defamation)
My recommendations were all far right American commentators, I didn’t follow any accounts, never looked at that stuff while logged into my account, and to top it off I don’t even live in the USA.
Once it started to be 3 musk notifications A DAY I uninstalled it.
I literally only follow some game devs and artists on X and still get pushed porn and conservative bullshit. And when I say 'pushed' I mean I get goddamn notifications from them. I get more notifs from stuff I don't actually follow than from the pages I do follow.
I'm German, so it's more or less our local breed of shitters (plus all that Donald Trump and woke culture war stuff). I still thought it was crazy that it's pushed like this. Pretty concerning, I'd say.
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u/coffeesharkpie 8d ago edited 8d ago
Made a Twitter account like a month ago, because I wanted to check some content there. Without following anybody, I got all the German right-wing, conspiracy, and anti-goverment stuff on the recommended content timeline. Closed the account again ASAP. Pretty sure that shit gets pushed onto everybody. Musk is everything the right make Soros out to be.