• Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Those bots have been so successful the past few years that if they shut them all down tomorrow, it wouldn’t matter because they managed to radicalize enough idiots to keep it going.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      They’ve actually studied this and found it not to be true. I’ll look for the study later, but it said that if you cut off access to Fox News and Facebook, people get less racist and wanting to do harm.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Hey, guess who invented Fox News. You think they stopped there as the internet became the new battleground? Why don’t we hear about what the GOP bots are doing? China and Russia, though guilty themselves, are generally red herrings in these contexts because the GOP doesn’t want the fingers pointed where they belong.

  • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Don’t blame American lunatics on Russians and Chinese. It wasn’t the Russians or the Chinese that voted for Trump or shot Charlie Kirk.

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      9 months ago

      No, the Americans just voted for them after being brainwashed by tons of Russian and Chinese propaganda.

      Americans are stupid, but the Russians and Chinese propaganda machines are not innocent.